by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
Ohio Light Opera produces Damn Yankees (2 pm in Freedlander Theatre at The College of Wooster), Akron Symphonic Winds presents Happy Birthday, America! (6:30 at The Grove in Mayfield), the Canton Symphony Summer Serenades sends its Woodwind Quintet to Canton’s Hall of Fame Village for a 6:30 concert, Kent Blossom Music Festival presents its first Faculty Concert of the season featuring violinist Paul Huang and pianist Amy Yang (7 pm in Ludwig Recital Hall, Kent), and the Lute Society of America’s Cleveland Lute Fest hosts Baroque lutenist Robert Barto in early and late works by Sylvius Weiss (7:30 in Harkness Chapel at Case).
For details of these and other classical music events, please visit the ClevelandClassical concert listings.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On June 24, 1908, German composer and organist Hugo Distler was born in Nuremberg. His struggle with the Nazis, who declared his modernistic works “degenerate art” contributed to his death by suicide in Berlin in 1942. Click here to watch a performance of Distler’s motet Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied by Tenet Vocal Artists, Scott Metcalfe, guest conductor, at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in New York.
And on this date in 1935, American minimalist composer Terry Riley was born in Colfax, California. Influenced by jazz and Indian classical music, he maintained a long relationship with the Kronos Quartet. His most famous work is In C, an infinitely adaptable piece that can be played by any number of performers. Click here to watch a performance with over 100 musicians from the Chicago area and beyond organized by Third Coast Percussion at Pritzker Pavilion in downtown Chicago’s Millennium Park in June, 2015 (pictured).
