by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
No Exit presents a retrospective of works by composer Greg D’Alessio (pictured), plus first performances of two new pieces (7 pm at Trinity Cathedral).
The Cleveland Orchestra plays Beethoven (the Fifth Symphony & Leonore Overture No. 3) and Leoš Janáček’s Suite From the House of the Dead arranged by Brno conductor František Jílek (7:30 at Severance Music Center, Franz Welser-Möst conducting).
And the Canton Symphony’s Divergent Sounds Series presents the Jen Maurer Project (7:30 at The Auricle).
NEWS BRIEFS:
Three Cleveland Institute of Music alumni are among the 17 composers to win 2025 Awards in Music from the New York-based Academy of Arts and Letters. Arseniy Gusev won a Charles Ives Fellowship worth $15,000, Gabriel Novak is one of several composers to win a $7,500 Ives Fellowship, and Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate won the Wise-Hinrichsen Award, a $5,000 prize supporting publication of a work by the C.F. Peters Corporation and Wise Music. Read the CIM press release here.
ChamberFest Cleveland has announced the five “Rising Stars” who will be featured during this year’s season, which will run from June 11-28. Pictured above, (L-R): Gabrielle Després (violin), Emad Zolfaghari (viola), Njord Kårason Fossnes (viola), Annie Jacobs-Perkins (cello), and Ahmed Alom (piano). Click here for the concert schedule and ticket information (some festival passes are now on sale).
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
Austrian composer Hugo Wolf, most celebrated for his many Lieder, was born on this date in 1860 in Windisch. 127 years later, British pianist Gerald Moore died on March 13, 1987. Though composer and pianist obviously never met, we can conjoin their landmark dates today through German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, with whom Moore recorded Wolf’s Mörike Lieder — nearly two hours worth of music.
Gerald Moore spent his career advancing the usually sublimated role of the collaborative pianist, and filled several books with his witty commentary. Listen to an audio version of The Unashamed Accompanist dubbed from an Angel LP.
And George Crumb finished composing his Black Angels (Thirteen Images from the Dark Land)for electric string quartet, percussion and water-tuned musical glasses on Friday, March 13, 1970, noting on the manuscript that the work was written “in tempore belli (in time of war.”) Click here to watch a performance by the CIM New Music Ensemble, Keith Fitch, director, James Thompson & Julian Maddox, violins, Tess Krope, viola, and Daniel Blumard, cello, on November 10, 2019 in celebration of the composer’s ninetieth birthday.
