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Diary: Weekend, March 26-27, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

ON THIS WEEKEND:

You’d have to clone yourself several times over to take in all this weekend’s live concerts. Here’s a bucket list to help you choose.

Orchestras: Canton with pianist Sarah Davis Buechner (Sat.), Cleveland with Dames Jane Glover & Imogen Cooper (Sat. & Sun.), and Firelands with Ilya and Olga Kaler (Sat.)

Operas: Last chances for The Secret Marriage at Oberlin (Sat. & Sun.) and The Marriage of Figaro at BW (Sat. & Sun.)

Recitals: David Bowlin and Tony Cho at Oberlin (Sat.), Karim Sulyman (pictured) and Yi-heng Yang at Youngstown (Sat.), Elizabeth Frey, Brian Skoog, and Karel Paukert in Cleveland Hts. (Sun.) & Alistair Howlett, Katherine Jolly, and Tatiana Lokhina at Oberlin (Sun.)

Pianists: Brian Wallick at CMA (Tri-C series, Sun.), Inna Faliks in Akron (Holy Trinity Lutheran, Sun.), Nicholas Underhill in Painesville (Sun.) and Jiarui Cheng in Hudson (Sun.)

Plus organist Damin Spritzer in Oberlin and the Mozart Requiem in Painesville (Sun.)

Details in our Concert Listings. [Read more…]

DIARY: Friday, March 25, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

In today’s entries:

• the British invasion at Severance features two recently appointed Dames

• choral concerts return to Gartner Auditorium & St. John’s Cathedral

• BW and Oberlin continue their opera runs with Mozart and Cimarosa

• Composers Guild repackages new music in old containers

TODAY’S EVENTS:

Two Englishwomen recently named dames of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire are in charge of The Cleveland Orchestra concert tonight at Severance Music Center. Dame Jane Glover will lead works by Mozart (the 22nd Piano Concerto), Vaughan Williams (the Tallis Fantasia) & Britten (the Suite on English folk tunes), and Dame Imogen Cooper will be featured in the concerto.  [Read more…]

DIARY: Wednesday, March 23, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

TODAY’S EVENTS:

Events in Ukraine are on everyone’s mind, but musicians are engaging with the crisis through consciousness-raising and fundraising performances.

Oberlin Conservatory Faculty pianists Scott Cuellar, Peter Takács, Tony Cho, Yulia Fedoseeva and Haewon Song, clarinetist Richard Hawkins, French hornist Jeff Scott, bassoonist Drew Pattison, violinists Francesca dePasquale and David Bowlin, violist Kirsten Docter, cellists Dmitry Kouzov and Andrei Ionita, bassist Derek Zadinsky and members of the Verona Quartet will play a benefit concert tonight at 7:30 in Oberlin’s First Methodist Church. Donations will be directed to UNICEF Ukraine, Red Cross Ukraine, and Razom.

The CIM Orchestra will perform at Severance Music Center tonight under Carlos Kalmar in a program featuring pianist Jacob Bernhardt in Prokofiev’s Third Concerto, as well as the first outing of a new piece by CIM’s Keith Fitch, Charles Ives’ amusing The Unanswered Question (the Druids have no comment) and Vaughan Williams’ Fourth Symphony. [Read more…]

DIARY: Tuesday, March 22, 2022

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Today’s schedule: etudes for solo piano, an early-music send-off to Carnegie Hall, works for organ and viola by Black composers, and jazz voice & trumpet

•Today’s reading: Amherst Early Music and Oberlin BPI compared and contrasted, the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival, and a heckler at the Met

•Today’s (meta) almanac: a look back at the early days of our Diary

[Read more…]

DIARY: Monday, March 21, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

TODAY’S EVENTS:

Tonight at 7:30 pm, harpist Parker Ramsay will play Johann Sebastian Bach’s Aria with Thirty Variations, popularly known as the Goldberg Variations, in a Bach’s Birthday Bash at Trinity Cathedral.

IN THE NEWS:

Applications are now open for singer-pianist team auditions for the 2022 edition of the Cleveland Art Song Festival, to be held at the Cleveland Institute of Music from May 23-28. In addition to masterclasses and a final concert, the event (which has been on hiatus thanks to the pandemic) features performances with the festival guest artists: soprano Tamara Wilson and tenor David Portillo, and pianists Warren Jones and Craig Terry. Read more here. [Read more…]

DIARY: Weekend, March 19-20, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS:

The big thing to mention is the official arrival of spring. For Cleveland, the Vernal Equinox arrives on Sunday at 11:32 am.

In his 1987 New York Times essay “Welcoming the Sun,” MacDonald Harris wrote about the importance of observing the day when the sun appears again, assuaging our fears that it just might not make it this time around. Gotta do something to celebrate!

Indoors events on Saturday include the Weilerstein Duo at Oberlin, CityMusic Cleveland at St. Stanislaus, and Apollo’s Fire at CIM.

On Sunday, organist and harpsichordist Christa Rakich takes on J.S. Bach’s Art of Fugue (complete) at the Church of the Covenant, Cleveland Chamber Collective performs “Music for America” in Ohio City, and Apollo’s Fire takes its “Virtuoso Bach and Vivaldi” program to Rocky River. (And a head’s up for Monday, when harpist Parker Ramsay will play Bach’s Goldberg Variations at Trinity Cathedral.

Check our Concert Listings for details. [Read more…]

DIARY: Friday, March 18, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

TODAY’S EVENTS:

Beginning today and running through the weekend, the 50th annual Lakeland Jazz Festival takes over the campus of Lakeland Community College. Click here for the complete schedule.

Friday’s agenda offers chamber music by CityMusic Cleveland in Lakewood, and the Euclid Quartet in Canton, orchestral music by Apollo’s Fire featuring violinist Francisco Fullana (pictured, preview here) in Shaker Heights, the Oberlin Orchestra at home with the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, and Cleveland Pops at Severance.

Plus a screening of CIM Opera Theater’s Dido and Aeneas project in Mixon Hall.

Check our Concert Listings for details. [Read more…]

DIARY: Wednesday, March 16, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

TODAY’S EVENTS:

Piano Cleveland, Cleveland School of the Arts and the Cleveland Museum of Art will come together tonight at 7:30 pm in Gartner Auditorium at CMA for a collaborative, multi-disciplinary performance of Camille Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals. Details in our Concert Listings.

R.I.P. TIMOTHY ROBSON:

The sad news reached us yesterday of the unexpected passing of our longtime colleague and friend Timothy Robson, one of the first people I met when I came to work at Trinity Cathedral in 1977, and one of the original correspondents for ClevelandClassical.com when the website was founded in September of 2008. [Read more…]

DIARY: Monday, March 14, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

ON TODAY:

This week’s episode of Eric Charnofsky’s “Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music” on WRUW radio from Case celebrates the birthday of Telemann, and includes a Monteverdi madrigal, a J.S. Bach Cello Suite performed on double bass, excerpts from Handel’s musical ode Alexander’s Feast, and a Divertissement by Lully. Click here to listen to the internet feed.

New York’s Metropolitan Opera is hosting a 70-minute Concert for Ukraine tonight at 6:00 pm, featuring its singers, orchestra, and chorus (pictured) led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin in music by Valentin Silvestrov, Barber, Verdi, and Richard Strauss, culminating in the finale from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Ukrainian bass-baritone Vladyslav Buialskyi will lead the Met Chorus in a performance of the Ukrainian national anthem. Click here at start time for the free internet stream (audio only). [Read more…]

DIARY: Weekend March 12-13, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

This weekend’s entries:

• Concerts at Oberlin, Severance Music Center, and Kent State, and on the road in Fairlawn and Coventry Village

• Coverage of reactions by the classical music community to the Russian invasion of Ukraine from The Violin Channel, and report of a construction miracle for the New York Philharmonic (Thank you, pandemic)

• Marking the birthdate of American choral conductor and composer Hall Johnson [Read more…]

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