by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
Tonight at 7:30, Composer, pianist, and bandleader Omar Sosa (pictured) premieres his new trio, Outside the Box, featuring Yosvany Terry on saxophone and Julian Miltenberger on drums in Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Cleveland.com reports that EDWINS restaurant is bringing jazz back to the former Nighttown space in Cleveland Heights, with internationally acclaimed trumpeter Dominick Farinacci curating a new concert series.
INTERESTING READS:
5 Highlights From a Model Maestro’s Recording Career
Christoph von Dohnányi, who died on Saturday, was a conductor of clarity and poise, as evidenced especially in his output with the Cleveland Orchestra. (David Allen, NY Times)
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On this date in 1684, German organist and composer Johann Rosenmüller died at Wolfenbüttel, where he ended his career as choirmaster at the ducal court. Previously, he was organist at the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig before getting run out of town for alleged homosexual activities. He fled to Venice to work at San Marco and at the Ospedale della Pieta.
Watch videos of Rosenmüller’s Das ist meine Freude and Nisi Dominus performed by Burning River Baroque at St. Alban’s in Cleveland Heights in March, 2018, and of his Magnificat in c by ARTEK and Les Sacqueboutiers du Toulouse in 2017 at Old St. Patrick’s in New York.
And on September 10, 1941, British conductor, harpsichordist and musicologist Christopher Hogwood was born in Nottingham. Co-founder with David Munro of the Early Music Consort in 1967 and founder of the Academy for Ancient Music in 1973, Hogwood was a central figure in the early music revival movement, including his tenure as music director of Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society, but his expertise extended into more modern music as well.
Watch a video where Hogwood conducts Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 15 with Robert Levin at the fortepiano, and a 2013 Gresham College lecture here where Hogwood talks about Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with live musical illustrations. (He died a year later in Cambridge, where he served as honorary professor at Cambridge University.)
