LAST CHANCE TODAY: A message from Daniel Hathaway
One of the big production numbers in Ohio Light Opera’s My Fair Lady begins
There’s just a few more hours, that’s all the time you’ve got…
Of course, that refers to Alfred P. Doolittle and his need to tie one on before his impending wedding, but the thought also applies to all the organizations like ours who are in the waning moments of their fiscal year and want to bring their annual funds to successful conclusions.
Ours is now less than $1,000 from meeting our goal. Won’t you please help us top off our Annual Fund with your tax-exempt gift today?
Don’t waste your time like Eliza Doolittle’s father! Visit our Donate page to use a credit or debit card, or print out a form to mail in with your check.
Many thanks!
Daniel
HAPPENING TODAY:
This afternoon at 2, Ohio Light Opera presents Rodgers and Hart’s The Boys from Syracuse in Freedlander Theatre at the College of Wooster. And tonight at 7 the Amethyst String Trio plays in Cain Park’s Alma Theater.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On June 30, 1958, Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen was born in Helsinki. Previously Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, and Music Director Emeritus of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Salonen originally considered himself primarily as a composer (he took up conducting, he said, to guarantee that his works would be performed). But his fate was sealed when he stepped in at the last minute for Michael Tilson Thomas for Mahler’s Third Symphony in London.
Click here to watch a later performance of Mahler 3 with the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall in London, when Salonen returned in October 2017 to the scene of his earlier triumph.
And on this date in 1987, Catalan composer Federico Mompou died in Barcelona. A miniaturist trained in Paris, his piano works and songs are characterized by simplicity and elegance. British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor plays Mompou’s Paisajes in this video recorded at the studios of WGBH in Boston, and Mompou’s Musica Callada (“Silent Music”) inspired a music video.
Pianist Jenny Lin, who has recorded a CD with all 28 of the short pieces in Mompu’s collection, and included two of them on her NPR Tiny Desk Concert, has performed in Cleveland on the No Exit presents series, the Signature Series at Lorain County Community College, on the Cleveland Contemporary Players Artist in Residency Series at Cleveland State University, on the Kent Keyboard Series, and at the Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival.
