by Daniel Hathaway
IN THIS EDITION:
. Visiting cellist and saxophonist
. Piano Cleveland at Phunkenship
. An Austrian, a Russian and a Greek to memorialize
TODAY’S EVENTS:
12:00 pm – Trinity Brownbag Concert. John Waltz, principal cello, Los Angeles Opera & Elizabeth DeMio, piano. Beethoven and Brahms cello sonatas. Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Freewill offering.
7:30 pm – CIM Faculty Recital, featuring Steven Banks, saxophone, with Xak Bjerken, piano. Camille Saint-Saëns’ Oboe Sonata, Op. 166, Carlos Simon’s hear them (2020) & Sergei Rachmninoff’s Cello Sonata, Op. 19. Mixon Hall, Cleveland Institute of Music, 11021 East Boulevard, Cleveland. Free seating passes required. Click here to reserve. The performance will be live streamed here
Piano Cleveland will be live at the kid-friendly brewery Phunkenship tonight when pianists Hechengzi Li, Joe Leaman, and Theron Brown, vocalist Helen Welch, and trumpeter, Tommy Lehman gather for a night of music making. No reservations or tickets necessary. More information here.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On this date in 1739, Austrian violinist and composer Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf was born in Vienna, later becoming concertmaster of the Esterhazy Orchestra. In I752, Count Andrey Kyrillovich Razumovsky was born in St. Petersburg, and from 1792 served as the Russian Ambassador to Vienna. He commissioned Beethoven’s three String Quartets Op. 59 in 1806, and the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies were dedicated to him. And in 1960, Greek-born. American conductor Dimitri Metropoulos collapsed of a heart attack while rehearsing Mahler’s third Symphony with the Orchestra of La Scala in Milan.
