by Daniel Hathaway
IN THIS EDITION:
. Kent State mega-concert at Severance tonight marks 1970 shootings
. May Day follow-ups: Magdalen Choir goes live again, lay clerks trounce choristers
. Almanac: Haydn’s Creation debuts in Vienna
TODAY’S FEATURED EVENT:
Tonight’s 7 pm performance at Severance by some 300 Kent State School of Music and University students will commemorate the tragic Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970 through “Stories of Peace, Protest, and Reflection.” [Read more…]
by Daniel Hathaway
IN THIS EDITION:
• An extensive list of concerts to choose from.
• Oberlin Conservatory alumni receive Guggenheim Fellowships
• Anatoly Liadov and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich celebrate birthdays.
THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS:
Live music in Northeast Ohio is back in full swing. Here’s a rundown of this weekend’s concert calendar. Check our Concert Listings page for details. [Read more…]
by Daniel Hathaway
IN THIS EDITION:
. Piano Cleveland listening series, Quire on WCLV
. ChamberFest Cleveland season lineup, Ukrainian orchestra formed for touring
. Remembering Slonimsky and Scriabin
TODAY’S EVENTS:
Tonight at 7:30 pm in Tucker Hall at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, Piano Cleveland reunites two of its Cleveland International Piano Competition medalists from 2021 in the first of three Listening Series concerts. Byeol Kim and Lovre Marušić put their four hands together in a concert titled “Piano Duo Do’s and Don’ts.” In-person tickets and virtual passes are available online.
And tonight at 8, WCLV’s Cleveland Ovations broadcasts Quire Cleveland’s March 6 performance of Demantius’ St. John Passion at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church, including John Simna’s intermission interview with artistic director Jay White.
by Daniel Hathaway
IN THIS EDITION:
•Online: Eric Charnofsky’s Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music and Les Délices’ SalonEra 2.12
•Announcements from Tri-C JazzFest
•In the Almanac: Marco Enrico Bossi & John Knowles Paine
TODAY’S EVENTS:
Eric Charnofsky’s Monday program from CWRU (2-4 pm) features Charles Griffes’ Piano Sonata, Wilhelm Berger’s Variations and Fugue on an original theme for large orchestra, David Liptak’s solo guitar piece The Sighs, an organ sonata of Felix Mendelssohn, and the Suite for String Orchestra by Frank Bridge. Click here to listen to the internet feeds. [Read more…]
by Daniel Hathaway
THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS:
There are many things to talk about this weekend, including two memorial events, the reappearances on the schedule of an orchestra and a pianist after long absences, a delayed Mardi Gras celebration, a rare program starring the cimbalom, and two concerts featuring single reed soloists. And one performance that isn’t going to happen thanks to visa snags, although the artist is sending his electrons for a master class. [Read more…]
by Daniel Hathaway
TODAY’S EVENTS:
Wednesdays are busy days at Trinity Cathedral, with (at the moment) biweekly lunchtime concerts and weekly 6:00 pm Choral Evensongs. Today’s calendar features the Salzedo Harp Duo at Noon (both in-person and live streamed), and a performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs at 6 with solo baritone Edward Vogel and the Cathedral Choir.
Tonight at 7:30 pm, the Cleveland Museum of Art hosts tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain with Kala Ramnath, violin, and Jayanthi Kumaresh, veena, in an evening of Indian classical music in Gartner Auditorium.
CONCERT UPDATES:
Arts at Holy Trinity Lutheran, Akron, has announced that visa problems have led to the cancellation of Polish organist Marik Kudlicki’s recital on Sunday, April 24, but not his workshop, which will move online on Saturday, April 23. [Read more…]
by Daniel Hathaway
TODAY’S EVENTS:
In today’s edition of Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music, Eric Charnofsky makes a nod to Easter and Spring with Benjamin Fuhrman’s Study After Hokusai, for clarinet and viola, Kenneth Leighton’s An Easter Sequence, Malcolm Arnold’s 1st symphony, and Rachmaninoff’s cantata, Spring. Also, the premiere recording of two piano pieces by Georges Mathias, French-born student of Chopin. It’s on from 2 to 4pm over WRUW from Case Western Reserve University. Click here to listen to the internet feed.
NEW CONCERTS ON THE CALENDAR:
It’s good to keep an eye out for interesting events that suddenly pop up on the Oberlin Conservatory Calendar. Like this week’s Messiaen Mini-Festival in Finney Chapel on Thursday and Friday April 21 and 22. The brainchild of conductor Timothy Weiss and organ professor Jonathan Moyer, the event includes Thursday discussions and Friday performances of two extended works by the French composer (pictured), who died 30 years ago. [Read more…]
by Daniel Hathaway & Mike Telin
TODAY’S EVENTS:
Almost every concert-giving entity is observing Easter and Passover with darkened stages. There are a few exceptions on Friday and Saturday:
At 11:00 am Friday and 8:00 pm Saturday, The Cleveland Orchestra continues to welcome two guests to the Severance stage: conductor Kahchun Wong, who will lead Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Christian Tetzlaff (pictured).
On Friday at 7:30 pm, Trinity Cathedral presents its annual Good Friday concert, this time featuring English music for the season: Robert White’s Lamentations of Jeremiah and John Rutter’s Requiem.
On Friday at 7:30 pm, Chris Anderson leads the Oberlin Jazz Ensemble from Finney Chapel (live stream available) in music by Duke Ellington, Thad Jones, and Jay Ashby, and on Saturday at 8, Larry Snider and Matt Dudack host the University of Akron Steel Drum Band with guest Michel Spiro and alumni at E.J. Thomas Hall.
Details in our Concert Listings. [Read more…]
by Daniel Hathaway
TODAY’S EVENTS:
Tonight at 7, Carlos Kalmar leads the CIM Orchestra in Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9 and works by Anna Clyne and Haydn in Kulas Hall, and at 7:30, the Oberlin College Choir under visiting professor Ben Johns serves up a menu of part songs and madrigals in Finney Chapel (you can watch via live stream).
NEWS BRIEFS:
The Boston Symphony has canceled an upcoming four-city European tour due to a resurgence of COVID-29 that has affected 31 of its onstage musicians. The tour was to be a partnership between the BSO and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, which share an artistic conductor in Andris Nelsons. Read more here. [Read more…]
by Daniel Hathaway
TODAY’S EVENTS:
Eric Charnofsky’s WRUW radio slot today from 2-4 pm observes Alberto Ginastera’s 106th birthday (in absentia), and pulls some obscure works by Anron Arensky, David Maslanka, Adolphus Hailstork, Robert Schumann, and Janice Giteck off the shelf for a listen here.
The Cavani Quartet work with CSU student composers today at 4 in Drinko Recital Hall, at 7 pm, Les Délices proposes to reconcile early Romantic Lieder with the history of science (fairies meet microbes) in the next online episode of Salonera, and Youngstown State faculty Misook Yun, soprano, Sean Yancer, horn, and Caroline Oltmanns, piano (pictured) take on the diversity problem in German Lieder repertoire in a free 7:30 pm concert in Guzzetta Recital Hall at the University of Akron (also available online). [Read more…]