by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
At 12 Noon, Oberlin organ major Owen Reyda plays works by Juan Cabanilles, Robert Schumann & August Gottfried Ritter’s Sonata No. 3 on the Tuesday Noon Organ Plus series at the Church of the Covenant in University Circle.
At 5:30 pm, Fairmount Presbyterian’s Rush Hour Concerts presents soprano Andrea Walker, soprano, and pianist Mikhail Grazhdanov in Winds of Spring: Songs by Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn. 2757 Fairmount Blvd., Cleveland Heights.
And tonight at 7:30 pm in Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Beethoven’s “Moonlight” & “Waldstein” Sonatas, Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, and Dobrinka Tabakova’s Nocturne & Halo.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
Here are some classical music playlists to mark St. Patrick’s Day, honoring the patron saint of Ireland, who departed this life on this date in 461.
Click here for WFMT Chicago’s “Irish Composers You Should Know”
Click here for Discover Music’s “Best Classical Music for St. Patrick’s Day”
and here for Your Classical’s “Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day With an Irish Flavored Classical Playlist.”
Three Irish composers conspicuously missing from those playlists should be mentioned: Sir Hamilton Harty (for his sumptuous arrangements of Handel’s orchestral suites), Victor Herbert (pictured, for his 43 operettas and his cello concertos, though he was born on the island of Guernsey, he believed he was Irish by birth all his life), and Charles Wood (who mentored Ralph Vaughan Williams and Herbert Howells and wrote some 250 sacred works while teaching at Cambridge University).
Enjoy!
