by Daniel Hathaway
NEW CALENDAR LISTING FORMAT:
As the pandemic has developed, the classical music world has been transitioning with dizzying speed from live performances to exclusively online experiences. In order to keep up with rapidly changing events, ClevelandClassical is making alterations in our Concert Listings page for the duration.
- We’re only listing events for a week at a time.
- The top of the page will include scheduled streams of interest to Northeast Ohio audiences.
- Scroll down to view on-demand events with no specific dates or times, first those of local interest, then those from national and global organizations.
- We’ll continue to point you toward highlights of the day in this Diary.
In our experience so far, events can pop up like mushrooms and get cancelled just as quickly. Please let us know by email if any links are broken or out-of-date. And please fill us in on anything you know about that we’ve overlooked!
CELEBRATE BACH’S BIRTHDAY TWICE:
Some of our readers have reminded us that Johann Sebastian Bach’s real birthday is today, not March 21, where it ended up with the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. Since Bach never penned a gift cantata for himself, celebrate with a performance of the piece he wrote in 1733 for the birthday of Maria Josepha, Queen of Poland and Electress of Saxony. (Sound familiar? The Great Recycler repurposed four of its movements for the Christmas Oratorio a bit later.) Philippe Herreweghe leads the Collegium Vocale Gent.
VIDEO OF THE DAY:
ChamberFest co-founder Franklin Cohen has sent around this message today: “Over the last few weeks my thoughts have turned toward the things that I cherish and hold most dear. Loved ones, family, friends and music have always defined my world. I am so grateful to all of my Cleveland and ChamberFest friends for the special moments we have shared over the years, many of which have been beautifully captured on film.”
One of those is Brahms’ Piano Quintet in f, which Cohen attached as a link. Click here to watch the video from a ChamberFest Cleveland performance on June 26, 2014. Violinists Noah Bendix-Balgley and Diana Cohen, violist Dimitri Murrath, cellist Robert deMaine and pianist Orion Weiss join clarinetist Franklin Cohen in Mixon Hall at CIM.