By Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Haewon Song and Robert Shannon (pictured) perform in Oberlin, Daniel Gilbert plays Golijov with CityMusic

. The Cleveland Orchestra adds a free concert, CIM seeks Academy students

. The Almanac reports a mixed list of arrivals and departures

HAPPENING TODAY: 

At 7:30 pm Oberlin faculty pianists Haewon Song and Robert Shannon play Schubert, Messiaen, Mozart, Khachaturian & Pabst’s Paraphrase de Concert sur l’opera on Eugene Oneguine de P. Tchaikovsky in Warner Concert Hall. Oberlin Conservatory, 43 South Professor St, Oberlin. Free. Click here for live stream.

Also at 7:30 pm, CityMusic begins its run of concerts titled The Visionary Clarinet. Klezmer, classicism and Jewish melodies swirl together in Golijov’s The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, performed by Daniel Gilbert. The Temple — Tifereth Israel, 26000 Shaker Blvd., Beachwood. Free. [Read more…]

By Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Concerts at Trinity and CMA feature young performers

. BBC shoots itself in the foot

. Milestones: Lili Boulanger, My Fair Lady

HAPPENING TODAY ONLINE  & IN PERSON:

At 12 noon on the Brownbag Concert Series at Trinity Cathedral, the Choirs of Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights perform a varied program of choral music led by Performing Arts department chair Laura Webster. The concert can be enjoyed in person or watched via live stream. [Read more…]

By Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Is Bach for everyone? (Nicholas Phan asks)

. Rarities from CWRU courtesy of Eric Charnofsky, New Morse Code in Rocky River

. Two titans of the art song share an Almanac date

HAPPENING TODAY ONLINE  & IN PERSON:

Released today: Les Délices — SalonEra 3.6: BACH 52. SalonEra partners with GRAMMY-nominated tenor Nicholas Phan to probe the question “Is Bach’s music for everyone?.” Drawing on tenor arias and interviews captured for Phan’s BACH 52 project, Nicholas, Debra Nagy, and a range of community members reckon with the complex social history of Bach’s music as well as its enduring resonance in their lives. Available online and as a podcast through June 30, 2023. Click here. [Read more…]

By Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. A long list of multiple & single performances

. The acoustic of Notre-Dame in Paris, an interactive experience from the New York Times

. Almanac entries: anniversaries of Honegger, Mendelssohn’s revival of Bach’s Matthew-Passion and a Leipzig summer extravaganza featuring Bobby McFerrin on his birthday, remembering Nijinski (pictured)

HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND:

Multiple performances: The Cleveland Orchestra’s Mozart Requiem (Fri, Sat, Sun afternoon), Oberlin Opera’s Candide (director Jonathan Field’s last production, Fri, Sat, Sun afternoon).

Single performances on Friday: Apollo’s Fire’s Exile – Music of the Jewish & African Diasporas (in Cleveland Hts.), Youngstown Symphony: Musical Titans & electric violinist and vocal master L Shankar (Cleveland Museum of Art). [Read more…]

By Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Apollo’s Fire launches series of music of the Jewish & African Diasporas

. Architect of CMA’s Atrium passes in New York

. Jarrett Hoffman considers International Women’s Day

. Almanac: Many milestones, but a focus on William Walton, his violin concerto, and The Cleveland Orchestra

HAPPENING TODAY:

Today at 7:30 pm at Bath Church, Apollo’s Fire begins its run of Exile – Music of the Jewish & African Diasporas, celebrating the interwoven connections of the Sephardic, Ashkenazy, Palestinian, and African traditions. Conceived and directed by Jeannette Sorrell & featuring mezzo-soprano Rachel Weston, tenors Jacob Perry & Haitham Haidar & baritone Jeffrey Strauss with Daphna Mor, recorder, ney & vocals. [Read more…]

By Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Charnofsky live on the air, Krosnick live at LCCC

. Almanac entries for March 6: Zoltán Kodály, Sarah Caldwell, The Flight of the Bumblebee, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa

HAPPENING TODAY:

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music, hosted by Eric Charnofsky. Featured music: Sir Charles Villiers Stanford’s Piano Quintet in d, Steven Kemper’s The Seven Stars (prepared piano, Angélica Negrón’s Still Here (saxophone and harp) & Karl Goldmark’s Rustic Wedding Symphony. Click here to listen to the internet feed: or tune in to 91.1 FM in the greater Cleveland area.

7:30 pm – LCCC Signature Series: Gwen Krosnick, solo cello (pictured). Dorothy Rudd Moore’s Baroque Suite for Unaccompanied Cello (1965), Jeffrey Mumford’s revisiting variazioni elegiaci…once more (2001) & amid fleeting pockets of billowing radiance (1990), Ralph Shapey’s Krosnick Soli (1983) & Donald Martino’s Parisonatina al’Dodecafonìa (1964). Cirigliano Studio Theatre, Stocker Center for the Arts, Lorain County Community College, 1005 North Abbe Road, Elyria. Free. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Operas, Latin-flavored orchestra concerts, and an improvisation fest rise to the top of this weekend’s calendar.

. Almanac: three from the archives

HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND:

On Friday, Cleveland Jazz Orchestra offers “Blues, Gospel, and the Abstract Truth” at the Maltz, Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra feature Mussorgsky’s Pictures, Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G (Víkingur Ólafsson) & Louise Farrenc’s Third Symphony (repeated Saturday at 8 and Sunday at 3), while CIM Opera stages Poulenc’s chilling Dialogues des Carmélites (also Sunday at 3) and the Oberlin Improv Fest continues with flutist Nicole Mitchell at the Birenbaum. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Trinity Brownbag Concert

. Women’s History Month

. Almanac: Births, deaths, first performances, and a protest in Vienna

HAPPENING TODAY:

Today’s Brownbag Concert at 12 Noon at Trinity Cathedral features the Shaker Heights High School Chamber Orchestra in a preview of their upcoming concert in New York City. See our Concert Listings for details.

ALMANAC FOR MARCH 1:

March is Women’s History Month, which grew out of a national celebration launched in 1981, when Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28 authorizing and requesting the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982 as “Women’s History Week. Read more here. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Charnofsky unveils more obscure works

. The Guardian continues its coverage of The Piano

. Listen to a live 1965 broadcast of Szell & The Cleveland Orchestra from Kviv

. Brief nods to Caruso, Borodin, Lehmann & Cliburn in today’s Almanac

HAPPENING TODAY:

Eric Charnofsky hosts two hours’ worth of not-so- often-heard repertoire today beginning at 2pm from the studios of WRUW radio. Today’s installment of Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music, features Sergey Taneyev’s Symphony No. 3 in d, Francisco Tarrega’s Carnival of Venice (guitar), Paul Lansky’s Pieces of Advice (horn and piano) & Aaron Jay Kernis’s Still Movement with Hymn (piano quartet). Click here to listen to the internet feed: or tune in to 91.1 FM in the greater Cleveland area. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. A packed calendar and some tough choices

. The Almanac remembers the death of Leo Ornstein, the births of Dame Myra Hess, and Maryanne Amacher, and the demise of Howard Hanson and Marie-Claire Alain

HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND:

Many events to mention, tough choices to make.

On Friday, a Cleveland Orchestra matinee and an evening performance by the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, the Music Settlement celebrates Black composers & artists, Cleveland Chamber Collective presents “After the Storm,” Les Délices features Sherezade Panthaki in “Enchanted Island,” Oberlin Orchestra teams up with a Jazz Division trio. [Read more…]