by Daniel Hathaway
Events scheduled for today but cancelled due to the pandemic include a Cleveland Museum of Art performance by Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain and his colleagues. As a consolation, watch a 2018 Jazz Night in America show, “Crosscurrents,” featuring Hussain with bassist Dave Holland and their international ensemble, as they explore the influence of Indian music on the jazz and rock scenes of the 60s. Click here to view.
TODAY’S STREAMS:
Visit the Concert Listings page for details about today’s scheduled events, including Lunchtime with The Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Opera Theater’s Opera-101 Online and From Page to Stage, an archived performance by the CIM Orchestra, the latest “Keeping Score” release from the San Francisco Symphony, and tonight’s MET Opera HD archived stream of Verdi’s Falstaff.
NEW STREAMING SERIES:
The Berlin-based, classical streaming audio platform IDAGIO announces a new, real-time video series, IDAGIO Live. Baritone Thomas Hampson will be featured today at 1:00 pm EDT in Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer. On Thursday at 12 Noon EDT, Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Franz Welser-Möst will talk with Michele Gamba about the journey of a classical conductor through the ages into the modern era.
FEATURED AUDIO STREAM:
The Christian service of Tenebrae (“Shadows”) — traditionally held three times during Holy Week — inspired a number of Renaissance and Baroque composers to write settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah. Listen to a 2017 recording from Cleveland’s Trinity Cathedral of François Couperin’ Leçons de Ténèbres, composed for Holy Week of 1714 at the Abbaye Royale du Longchamp. Performers are sopranos Margaret Carpenter Haigh and Madeline Apple Healey, organist Peter Bennett, and viola da gambist David Ellis.
