by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
6:30 pm – Canton Symphony Summer Serenades presents music for flute and hap in Magnolia’s Fry Family Park.
7:30 pm – Oberlin Conservatory presents the Verona Quartet with guest saxophonist Steven Banks, saxophone (pictured) in works by Albert Hay Malotte, Felix Mendelssohn, Claude Debussy, Leoš Janáček, Mozart, Steven Banks, Reena Esmail, and Christopher Theofanidis in Warner Concert Hall.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
Estonian-born composer Arvo Pärt was born on this date in 1935. One of the truly original voices of the 20th century, Pärt invented what he called the tintinnabuli style, a minimalist approach influenced by chant.
Frequent ChamberFest Cleveland violinist Alexi Kenney joined his colleague Stefan Jackiw and Boston’s A Far Cry chamber orchestra in a live performance of “Silentium,” the second movement of Pärt’s Tabula Rasa, in Jordan Hall in 2017. Watch here. And listen to the Estonian Chamber Choir sing Pärt’s 1989 Magnificat under the direction of Paul Hillier.
French composer, organist, and harpsichordist François Couperin “Le Grand” died in Paris on this date in 1733. QinYing Tang included the 18th Ordre from his Troisième livre de pièces de clavecin on her doctoral recital at the Cleveland Institute of Music in April, 2015. And in the same month, Les Délices played his La Sultanne on its program in Herr Chapel at Plymouth Church in Shaker Heights.
