by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
Tuesdays at the Church of the Covenant in University Circle resume today at Noon with a recital of 16th & 17th century music by Jonathan W. Moyer on the Newberry organ. Click here to view the program. And visit our Concert Listings for details of upcoming performances.
R.I.P. Michael Murray
The Violin Channel reports that organist Michael Murray has passed away at the age of 81. An Oberlin Conservatory graduate who made his performance debut in Cleveland playing the complete organ works of J.S. Bach in a series of twelve recitals, Murray was the first solo artist to be recorded on the Telarc label, which would continue to release his albums for the next three decades. The obituary includes a link to a recital Murray gave at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Columbus, Ohio in 2014.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University will hold auditions for its two youth orchestras on September 14 at YSU’s Bliss Hall from 12:00 – 5:00 PM. Video submissions are due on Wednesday, September 11. See the details here.
The Warren Philharmonic is offering free violin lessons to third- through fifth grade students in its “Strings of Joy” program, for which applications are due on September 30. Click here for details.
INTERESTING READ:
Writing in The American Scholar, Joseph Horowitz notes, “We don’t often associate Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, but both composers mined the past to root themselves in an unstable present.” Read Anchoring Shards of Memory here.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On September 10, 1941, British conductor, harpsichordist and musicologist Christopher Hogwood was born in Nottingham. Co-founder with David Munro of the Early Music Consort in 1967 and founder of the Academy for Ancient Music in 1973 (the revival of the 18th century organization of the same name), Hogwood was a central figure in the early music revival movement, including his tenure as music director of Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society, but his expertise extended into more modern music as well.
Watch a video here where Hogwood conducts Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 15 with Robert Levin at the fortepiano, and a 2013 Gresham College lecture here where Hogwood talks about Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with live musical illustrations. He died a year later in Cambridge, where he served as honorary professor at Cambridge University.
