by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
Today at Noon, harpist Juan Riveros and violist Danny Jordan play works by Franz Schubert and Arnold Bax on the Tuesday series at the Church of the Covenant in University Circle.
This afternoon at 5, Senegalese master drummer Papa Assane M’baye plays a Rush Hour concert at Fairmount Presbyterian in Cleveland Heights.
Tonight at 7:30, Cleveland Chamber Music Society hosts one of its perennial favorites, the Takács Quartet (pictured, Edward Dusinberre & Harumi Rhodes, violins, Richard O’Neill, viola, and András Fejér, cello) in a program of works by Joseph Haydn, Béla Bartók, and Antonín Dvořák at Disciples Christian Church.
And marking Veterans’ Day, tonight at 7:30 at Severance Music Center, the Cinematic Symphony Orchestra and Choir will play selections from iconic and heroic film scores featuring members of the 101st Airborne Division US Army Band.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
Never to be forgotten, “The Great War” (to end all wars) ended rather messily with the signing of an armistice at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, having “claimed the lives of 116,000 Americans, through combat, disease and other causes, and killed millions more people around the world.” Read an article in The Washington Post here. The U.S. began marking Veterans Day in 1954, now called Memorial Day.
Never a better opportunity to hear (or re-hear) Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, built around WWI war poetry by Wilfrid Owen. Britten himself conducted this live television performance in August, 1964. The work was written for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral (the old building had been destroyed during German bombing in WWII), and received its first performance on May 30, 1962.
