by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
Today at 12 Noon at the Church of the Covenant, Donna Jelen will conduct the Shaker Heights High School Chamber Orchestra in music by Tchaikovsky, Dvorak & Mendelssohn and Alec Rowley’s Meditation for Organ and Orchestra with Jonathan Moyer, organ. At the same hour, Piano Cleveland Live presents a recital by Cleveland International Piano Competition semi-finalist Jonathan Mamora in the Atrium of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
And tonight at 7:30. Anthony Parnther will conduct the CIM Orchestra, with Steven Banks, saxophone, in Jerod Tate’s Nani (Fish), Billy Child’s Diaspora: Concerto for Saxophone, and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9 in Kulas Hall.
Visit our Concert Listings for details of these and other performances.
AMUSING READ from The Guardian:
Redditors are thrilled by the Co-op on Ecclesall Road, where a magnificent drone is reminiscent of Brian Eno’s ambient music. We take a visit to the back aisles.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
Italian soprano-turned-opera-director Renata Scotto was born on this date in 1934. Considered one of the greatest vocalists of her generation, Scotto was also known as an exceptional actress. That combination of talents came up in an extensive interview with Stephen Rubin for The New York Times in 1978:
I prefer the great personality. Take a role like Butterfly. They say I’m the best Butterfly because I act, identify with the role. But this identification is very, very controlled by myself. I am an actress, but I am also a singer. Even when I am deeply involved in the character, I don’t forget that I am on stage. If I control myself, I never go overboard. If I don’t control myself, I go crazy. I remember the first time I sang Butterfly, I started to cry. I was finished.
Listen to Scotto in that very role here, singing “Un bel dì, vedremo” to celebrate her 46th birthday.
