by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
This busy Thursday comes with a heat advisory from 11am to 8pm — values up to 104 degrees are expected in parts of north central, northeast, and northwest Ohio.
It’s a good day for indoor activities — like Ohio Light Opera’s 2 pm performance of George and Ira Gershwin’s Tip-Toes (pictured) and 7:30 staging of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel at the College of Wooster, the Cooper International Piano Competition Final Round featuring Anwen Deng (16, Australia), Sawako Harada (18, Japan), and Anna Avramidou (17, Cyprus) performing concertos with The Cleveland Orchestra at Severance, and Piano Cleveland’s 7:30 Piano Days concert by Mirabelle Kajenjeri in Mixon Hall at CIM.
Details in our Concert Listings.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra will officially begin selling subscription tickets at 10 am on Monday, July 28 for its 2025-2026 season at the Maltz Performing Arts Center, but fans can purchase subscriptions early beginning on Friday, July 23 at 10 am, using the code EARLYSING25.
The Cleveland Orchestra and Music Director Franz Welser-Möst will release a new spatial audio recording of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27, featuring pianist Garrick Ohlsson, paired with the composer’s Symphony No. 29, on August 1. The recording is available exclusively on Apple Music Classical as part of a continued and growing partnership between The Cleveland Orchestra and the streaming platform. A wider release on all other digital streaming platforms will follow on September 12. Read a press release here.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On this date in 1880, Swiss-American composer, photographer, humanist, and philosopher Ernest Bloch was born in Geneva. Some indication of his standing in the international music world is suggested by the list of musicians who were named as founders of the Ernest Bloch Society in 1937: “The President was Albert Einstein and the society numbered Sir Thomas Beecham, Sir John Barbirolli, Sir Henry Wood, Bruno Walter and Ralph Vaughan Williams amongst its illustrious Vice-Presidents.”
We have written about the founding director of the Cleveland Institute of Music on the anniversary of his death, but today we remember him through his Sacred Service (Avodath Hakodesh), a full-length, through-composed setting of the Jewish liturgy. Listen to a classic 1960 recording by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic here.
And click here to watch a Cleveland Institute of Music video of Bloch’s Suite No. 1 for Cello Solo played by Cleveland Orchestra cellist Richard Weiss.
