By Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
No live concerts on Tuesday’s agenda, but have a look at the Concert Listings to see what’s on the horizon later this week.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Free Instrumental Lessons
The Center for Arts Inspired Learning invites Cleveland residents from the 3rd to the 12th grade and CMSD students to receive free beginner to intermediate instrument instruction. Click here for details of the Inspiration Through Music/Play It Forward! ® Cleveland after school programming. The fall session runs from September 11 to November 17.
INTERESTING READ:
Keeping score: Riccardo Muti reflects on a lifetime in music
“The 82-year old conductor (pictured above), who recently stepped down as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director after 13 years at the helm, is in ebullient form, reminiscing about Queen Elizabeth II visiting his dressing room at La Scala and staying – longer than protocol permitted – for 23 minutes, then railing against the opera world where ‘stage directors have now become the gods.’ He’s self-deprecating, amusing anecdotes tripping off his tongue as he tosses back his silvery mane.” Read the August 31 interview with Bachtrack’s Mark Pullinger here.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On September 5, a long list of debuts and departures includes Johann Christian Bach (“The English Bach,” born in 1735), Canadian pianist and composer Marc-André Hamelin (born in 1961), and Hungarian-born conductor Sir Georg Solti (knighted honorarily in 1971 and substantively in 1972 when he became a British citizen, who died in 1997).
Other names that pop up on the fifth day of September: German opera composer Giacomo Meyerbeer (born 1791), Amy (Mrs. H.H.A.) Beach (born 1867), American revolutionary John Cage (born 1912), English composer Peter Racine Fricker (born 1920), and Mexican conductor Edouarda Mata (born 1942).
Episode 84 of Living the Classical Life, presents Zsolt Bognár’s conversation with Marc-André Hamelin, filmed on October 21, 2019. “The narrative centers around the preparation and mindset for a Carnegie Hall appearance, and how Hamelin has managed to find a zone of performance completely free of the nerves that often plague others. Unique anecdotes and insights into his inner world reveal many surprises from a prolific musical life.” Watch here.
