HAPPENING TODAY:
This afternoon, Ohio Light Opera continues its season with Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady (2 pm in Freedlander Theatre at The College of Wooster), The Canton Symphony fields a woodwind quintet for its Summer Serenade (6:30 in Bimeler Park in Brewster), and the second faculty concert of the Kent Blossom Music Festival features violinist Benny Kim, violist Pierre Lapointe, cellist Brook Speltz, and pianist Benjamin Hochman (7:30 in Ludwig Recital Hall at Kent State University).
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On this date in 1939, Spanish composer Fernando Sor died in Paris. Classical guitarist Ana Vidovic performed his Introduction and Variations on a Theme of Mozart on the Cleveland Classical Guitar Society series in October, 2015, and revisited the series in the fall of 2018. Click here to watch her performance of the Mozart Variations in Germany in 2019.
Australian American pianist, composer, and folksong arranger Percy Grainger was born on July 8, 1883 in Melbourne and became a U.S. Citizen in 1919. Click here to listen to a selection of piano rolls that preserve his performances of his popular works, and here to watch an hour and 18 minute documentary, Percy Grainger Revealed, from the 1990s.
Speaking of piano rolls, celebrate the birthdate of American avant-garde composer and inventor George Antheil on July 8, 1900 with a rehearsal video of his Ballet Méchanique by the Philadelphia Piano + Percussion Project, Phillip O’Banion, conductor, with pianists Charles Abramovic, Anna Kisitslyna, Gretchen Hull, and Nam Nguy.
