by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
At 12:15 noon, Music Near the Market presents organist Owen Reyda, in music by J.S. Bach and Robert Schumann at Trinity Lutheran Church in Ohio City.
At 6 pm, the Cleveland Museum of Art hosts violinist Emily Cornelius & percussionist Ross Karre in music by Maria Grenfell, Cara Haxo, Salina Fisher and Arvo Pärt in the Ames Family Atrium.
At 7:30 pm in Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the New York-based Relic Ensemble (pictured) presents The Blood of the Rose, a curation of Baroque music inspired by the story of Venus and Adonis.
Also at 7:30, an Oberlin Faculty Recital presents Oberlin Conservatory’s string quartet in residence, the Verona Quartet, with cellist Dmitry Kouzov, in Kulas Recital Hall.
For details of these and other classical music events, please visit the ClevelandClassical.com concert listings.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
Today marks the anniversaries of the births of Irish composer and organist Charles Villiers Stanford (1852) and Russian violinist David Oistrakh (1908), and the death of American composer and music critic Virgil Thomson (1989).
Here are a couple of local performances to celebrate those musicians. Here, Quire Cleveland sings Stanford’s motet Beati quorum via under guest conductor Tim Brown at Trinity Cathedral in 2011. And here, Oistrakh joins George Szell and The Cleveland Orchestra in a 1969 recording of Brahms’ Violin Concerto.
And in 2020, the Metropolitan Opera presented Virgil Thomson’s The Mother of Us All (libretto by Gertrude Stein) in a collaboration with The Juilliard School and the New York Philharmonic on the eve of American social reformer and women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony’s 200th birthday. Watch the video here.
Thomson’s influence as a music critic is discussed in a 2016 NPR interview with Tim Page. Read Critical Condition: Revisiting Composer Virgil Thomson’s Masterful Prose here.\
