by Jarrett Hoffman
IN THIS EDITION:
•Tonight: Cleveland Orchestra, Youngstown Symphony, and Renovare Music
•R.I.P. Dolores White, pictured
HAPPENING TODAY:
Three concerts tonight will take place at 7:30 pm.
The Cleveland Orchestra will be joined by conductor Thomas Adès and violinist Pekka Kuusisto in works by Sibelius (the Prelude and the Suite No. 1 from The Tempest, and the Six Humoresques) and by Adès himself (Märchentänze and The Tempest Symphony). Tickets are available here.
The Youngstown Symphony will present “A Night for Jazz,” featuring vocalist Brianna Thomas and led by conductor Dean Buck. Tickets here.
And at the Maltz Performing Arts Center, Renovare Music will put on a free concert composed of three different elements: string music, poetry by spoken word artist Vision, and African drumming by Ali Boyd, Rashon Blake and Derick Barnes. The program includes José Elizondo’s The Dawn of Hope, J.S. Bach’s Aria from the Goldberg Variations, Ludovico Einaudi’s Experience, Hirono Borter’s Goldberg Meditation, Sabrina Jean Louis’ Clair de Lune, William Travance’s Blood Runs Black, and more.
R.I.P. DOLORES WHITE:
ClevelandClassical.com mourns the passing of Cleveland-based composer and musical trailblazer Dolores White, who died on Friday at the age of 90.
A Chicago native, White was an alumna of Oberlin Conservatory and the Cleveland Institute of Music, in addition to attending Howard University and doing post-graduate work at Ohio State University and Kent State University. An esteemed composer and a strong advocate for diversity and equity in classical music, her works were performed by such ensembles as the Dallas and Detroit Symphonies and The Cleveland Orchestra, where her husband of nearly 50 years, Donald White, was a longtime member. She was beloved as an educator at The Music Settlement and as a longtime assistant professor at Cuyahoga Community College.
Last June, White received a Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award from The Cleveland Orchestra, who also honored her with a performance of her Celebration, a commission from the Cleveland Women’s Orchestra. Other works to receive recent performances in the area include her solo violin piece Blues Dialogues, featured on The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2022 “Honoring Black Composers” program (click here to listen to a recording by Rachel Barton Pine on the album Blues Dialogues) and the 2021 world premiere of her Three Madrigals by the Cleveland Chamber Choir, an event that was recorded here.