by Daniel Hathaway
WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS:
APRIL 10 – FRIDAY
7:00 pm – No Exit Presents the Either/Orchestra at Trinity Cathedral. Repeated on Saturday at the Bop Stop.
7:30 pm – The Cleveland Orchestra at Severance with Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor, and Sol Gabetta, cello. Repeated on Saturday.
7:30 pm – Apollo’s Fire revives O Jerusalem! Crossroads of Three Faiths (pictured) in Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Repeated on Saturday at Congregation Mishkan Or in Beachwood.
7:30 pm – The Resonance Project presents pianist Irwin Shung, piano in J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations at Plymouth Church UCC, in Shaker Heights.
APRIL 11 – SATURDAY
7:00 pm – Cleveland Repertory Orchestra presents a concert of American music in tribute to Michael Tilson Thomas. Matthew Salvaggio conducts, with Kira McGirr, mezzo-soprano, at Disciples Church in Cleveland Heights.
7:30 pm – Cleveland Classical Guitar Society presents David Russell in works by Mauro Giuliani, Isaac Albéniz, J.S. Bach, Stephen Goss, and Gabriel Estarellas at the Maltz Performing Arts Center.
APRIL 12 – SUNDAY
2:00 pm – Tri-C Classical Piano Series presents Stewart Goodyear in a program of Beethoven’s sonatas and his Andante Favoriti, plus two of Goodyear’s original compositions in Tri-C Metro Auditorium.
3:00 pm – Cleveland Chamber Collective presents Travelogue, featuring works by Daniel Kessner, David Lang, Margi Griebling-Haigh, Béla Bartók, Robert Manno, and Dylan Moffitt at Disciples Church in Cleveland Heights.
7:00 pm – CityMusic Cleveland’s April Chamber Concert presents hornist Margaret Tung, violinist Miho Hashizume, and pianist Donna Lee in works by Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms at Praxis Fiber Workshop.
7:30 pm – Cleveland Chamber Symphony presents its annual Young and Emerging Composers Concert featuring world premieres in Gamble Auditorium at Baldwin Wallace.
For details of these and other classical events, visit the ClevelandClassical.com Concert Listings.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On this date in 1847 newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the St. Louis Dispatch, was born in Mako, Hungary. His will (he died in 1911) left $2 million for the establishment of the school of journalism at Columbia University and endowed the Pulitzer Prizes, which, beginning in 1943, included an annual award for a classical musical composition by an American composer.
In the late 1990s, the entry rules were expanded to include a wider range of American music, and the first such prize recognized Wynton Marsalis’ 1997 Blood on the Fields. George Gershwin and Duke Ellington were subsequently honored on their anniversary years in 1998 and 1999.
It’s interesting to read down the list of Pulitzer Prize winners in music, both to see what works have passed into wide use and which seem to have fallen by the wayside. Click here to view.
Elsewhere on April 10, Brahms’ German Requiem received its first performance at a Good Friday concert in Bremen in 1868, and two major works for clarinet were premiered — Poulenc’s Sonata at Carnegie Hall by Benny (Goodman) and Lenny (Bernstein) in 1963, and Joan Tower’s Concerto by Charles Neidich and the American Symphony, led by Jorge Mester, in 1988.
And notable births on April 10 include French jazz pianist and composer Claude Bolling (1930, in Cannes), and Uzbek pianist Yefim Bronfman (1958 in Tashkent).
