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DIARY: Weekend August 26 -28, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Events: Cleveland Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with Vadim Gluzman (pictured), Stars of Summer, Tuesday Musical Passport series, Tailgating with Cleveland Opera Theater

. CityMusic announces 2022-23 season

.  Arthur Loesser, Eric Coates, and Aspen Music Festival celebrate birthdays

WEEKEND EVENTS:

The Cleveland Orchestra is off to Europe for its first European tour since 2018. Friday night at 7:30 pm you can catch the second sendoff concert at Severance Music Center, when Franz Welser-Möst will lead Richard Strauss’ Macbeth, Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks & Suite from Der Rosenkavalier (compiled by Welser-Möst) & Alban Berg’s Three Pieces from Lyric Suite. Tickets can be ordered online.

On Saturday, August 27 at 7:30 pm, New York’s celebrated Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, “a radical experiment in musical democracy” that plays without a conductor, will make a guest appearance at Blossom with violinist Vadim Gluzman as soloist. [Read more…]

DIARY: Wednesday, August 24, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Philadelphia Orchestra breaks off a date in Edinburgh over chorus masking

. remembering Louis Teicher

TODAY’S EVENTS: 

There’s nothing to highlight on the calendar today — late August has arrived!

NEWS BRIEFS:

The Philadelphia Orchestra, about to embark on a European tour, has canceled tomorrow’s scheduled performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Edinburgh Festival because the 130-voice Edinburgh Festival Chorus is refusing to perform wearing face masks. Read the Philadelphia Inquirer story here. [Read more…]

DIARY: Monday, August 22, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Passings of Hazel Zehner (pictured) & Abdul Wadud, New York audiences slow to return to live performances

. Claude Debussy born in Paris suburb in 1862

TODAY’S EVENTS: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Radio Broadcast: Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music, Eric Charnofsky, host. Celebrating Claude Debussy’s birthday with his ballet score to La Boìte à joujoux (orchestrated by André Caplet) and music transcribed for harp featuring Yolanda Kondonassis, plus The Sea (Suite) by Frank Bridge, and music of Miklós Rózsa, and David Lang. WRUW, Case Western Reserve University. Click here to listen to the internet feed. [Read more…]

DIARY: Weekend August 19-21, 2020

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Cooper violin competition finals, Harry Potter and The Cleveland Orchestra, Stars of Summer, and Tuesday Musical Passport series

. Canton Symphony names Matthew Jenkins Jaroszewicz (pictured) as Music Director Designate, Oberlin Artist Recital Series returns, Stambaugh Youth Concert Band auditions announced

. Almanac celebrates August 20 birthdays: Akron-born Queena Mario, British-born conductor Hugh Ross, and mezzo soprano Dame Janet Baker

TODAY’S EVENTS:

Tonight at 7:30 pm the finals of the Thomas and Evon Cooper International Violin Competition will be held in Oberlin Conservatory’s Warner Concert Hall. Three violinists perform complete concertos with the Canton Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Gerhardt Zimmermann. [Read more…]

DIARY: Wednesday, August 17, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Cooper International Competition

. 2022/23 Signature Series at LCCC

. Carlos Salzedo and Ira Gershwin make their exits — George William Warren and Thomas Jefferson (T.J.) Anderson make their entrances

TODAY’S EVENTS:

The Thomas and Evon Cooper International Violin Competition continues at the Oberlin Conservatory.

After two days of performances, six participants have been selected to advance to Round Two in sessions today at 2:30 pm and 7:30 pm, when they will perform 45-minute programs with piano. Congratulations to these outstanding musicians.

(Pictured left to right): Audrey Goodner, 16, Reston, Virginia (U.S.A.), Bianca Ciubancan, 16, Chicago, Illinois (U.S.A.), Seohyun Kim, 13, Seoul (SOUTH KOREA), Kento Hong, 16, Edgemont, New York (U.S.A.), Sameer Agrawal, 17, Chicago, Illinois (U.S.A.), and Calvin Alexander, 17, Shreveport, Louisiana (U.S.A.).

Both sessions are free and are held in Warner Concert Hall and will be streamed live on oberlin.edu and The Violin Channel. [Read more…]

DIARY: Monday, August 15, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Offbeat classical selections on WRUW, Cooper violin competition opens at Oberlin (pictured: contestants from 2017)

. Reviews of U.S. concerts by the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra in New York and Washington, D.C.

. Anniversaries of the developer of the metronome, the inventor of the Theremin, and an African British composer, and a few settings of the Magnificat to mark the Feast of the Assumption

TODAY’S EVENTS: [Read more…]

CONCERT UPDATES:

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Due to positive COVID tests among Blossom Festival Chorus members, The Cleveland Orchestra has cancelled its Blossom performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on August 7 at 7 pm. See the Concert Listings for the new program.

Note: due to staff vacations, the Diary is on hiatus until August 8, when daily posting resumes. Click here for Concert Listings.

DIARY: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 

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by Daniel Hathaway

 TODAY’S ENTRIES:

. The Fantasticks at Ohio Light Opera

. Do these three teasers make you want to click through and read the articles?

. Almanac: three avant-garde composers celebrate birthdays — know them?

ON TODAY:

At 2:00 pm the Ohio Light Opera continues its outdoor run of The Fantasticks on the lawn of the Wayne Center for the Arts in Wooster. In case of rain, the performance will be moved to Freedlander Theatre. Tickets available online. [Read more…]

DIARY: Monday, July 18, 2022 

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by Daniel Hathaway

TODAY’S ENTRIES:

. Locals Gabriella Haigh, Randall Fusco, and Joela Jones featured on Charnofksy’s radio show

. Girls join John’s choir at Cambridge U., new comic opera at Glimmerglass, Rhiannon Giddens “reweaves” Silk Road Ensemble, update on Afghanistan Music School

. Almanac honors Canadian composer & environmentalist R. Murray Shafer [Read more…]

DIARY: Weekend of July 15-17, 2022  

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. String Quartets, Orchestra concerts, Light Opera, and a trio of Carillons

. Concert updates and news bits from Ohio Light Opera, Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, Cleveland Classical Guitar Society and Cuyahoga Arts & Culture

. From Van: Two young musicians survive their orchestral trial years in Germany

. Almanac: birth anniversaries of Linda Ronstad, James MacMillan, and Peter Schickele (aka P.D.Q. Bach)

THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS:

On Friday July 15 at 7:00 pm the Callisto Quartet (pictured, Cameron Daly & Gregory Lewis, violins, Eva Kennedy, viola, Hannah Moses, cello) performs Haydn’s Quartet op.76, no. 4, Debussy’s. Quartet and Mendelssohn’s Quartet, op. 13 at the Solon Center for the Arts. Tickets are available online. [Read more…]

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