by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND:
SEPTEMBER 5 – FRIDAY
7:00 pm – Japanese film and anime composer Joe Hisaishi will conduct The Cleveland Orchestra in an evening of his concert works including Viola Saga with Antoine Tamestit, a concert suite from The Boy and the Heron (U.S. premiere), and Symphony No. 3 in Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center.
SEPTEMBER 7 – SUNDAY
2:00 pm – Wit’s Folly. Citizens, Subjects, and Survivors: Music of the French Revolution. Quartets and quintets by Georg Friedrich Fuchs, Luigi Boccherini, Luigi Cherubini, and more. Hudson Library and Historical Society.
2:00 pm – Song Recital Project. Echoes of the Heart. Jason Fuh, baritone, and John Simmons, piano. Selections of French mélodie written by Henri Duparc, and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ song cycle The House of Life. Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art.
7:00 pm – The Cleveland Orchestra. Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs in Symphony. Enrico Lopez-Yañez, conductor, and Katelyn Drye, Hollie Hammel, & Julie Williams, vocals. New orchestrations of Dolly’s hit songs accompanied by Dolly on screen. Blossom Music Center.
INTERESTING READ:
The Cultural Kingdom Where Classical Music Still Reigns
Every summer, Salzburg, Austria, becomes the center of the classical music world, attracting some 256,000 visitors for a star-studded festival. Read the New York Times article here.
WEEKEND ALMANAC:
On September 5, a long list of arrivals and departures includes Johann Christian Bach (“The English Bach,” born in 1735), Canadian pianist and composer Marc-André Hamelin (born in 1961), and Hungarian-born conductor Sir Georg Solti (knighted honorarily in 1971 and substantively in 1972 when he became a British citizen, who died in 1997).
Other names that pop up on the fifth day of September: German opera composer Giacomo Meyerbeer (born 1791), Amy (Mrs. H.H.A.) Beach (born 1867), American revolutionary John Cage (born 1912), English composer Peter Racine Fricker (born 1920), and Mexican conductor Edouarda Mata (born 1942).
Episode 84 of Living the Classical Life, presents Zsolt Bognár’s conversation with Marc-André Hamelin, filmed on October 21, 2019. “The narrative centers around the preparation and mindset for a Carnegie Hall appearance, and how Hamelin has managed to find a zone of performance completely free of the nerves that often plague others. Unique anecdotes and insights into his inner world reveal many surprises from a prolific musical life.” Watch here.
