by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. A bulging weekend concert calendar

. Almanac: Clara Schumann dies, Verdi’s Requiem receives its first performance, and Richard Wagner is born

THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS:

There appears to be something for everyone this weekend, which offers music from the very old to the very new performed by chamber groups, choruses, and orchestras. Check our Concert Listings page for program details and ticket information.

MAY 20 – FRIDAY

At 11:00 am Franz Welser-Möst will lead The Cleveland Orchestra in Berg’s Lyric Suite and Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 at Mandel Concert Hall, and almost next door at 12:15 pm, the McGaffin Carillon Springtime Concert & Live Stream will feature George Leggiero performing an all-Dutch program from the 17th and 20th centuries. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Third FranckFest Brownbag Concert caps the Noontime Concert Series at Trinity Cathedral & WCLV broadcasts joint April 5 ChamberFest Cleveland & Cleveland Chamber Music Society collaboration

. British organist and choirmaster Simon Preston dies at 83

. Interesting read: Composer Brett Dean discusses his Hamlet chord

. Almanac: Froberger, Böhm, Pinza, Fischer-Dieskau make debuts while Mahler and Anderson exit.

TODAY’S EVENTS:

At 12:00 pm the Trinity Cathedral Brownbag Concert Series wraps up its season as well as its three-concert César FranckFest with music in celebration of the Belgian composer’s 200th birthday. Nicole Keller & Todd Wilson, organ, Mark Laseter, tenor & Pam Kelly, cello. Chorale in b minor (Keller), Panis angelicus, Pastorale, Sortie l’Organiste & Chorale in E. Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Freewill offering. Hybrid concert will also be livestreamed and archived. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. The latest episode of Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music

. Tuesday Musical’s 2022 Scholarship Competition Final Round/Winners Concert (winners pictured)

. A new production of Anthony Davis’s opera “X” opens in Detroit

. Almanac: composer Richard Wilson born in Cleveland.

TODAY’S EVENTS:

At 2:00 pm  – Eric Charnofsky hosts the weekly radio broadcast Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music. Today’s program includes the third symphony of David Diamond, Bright Sheng’s My Song for piano, Secret Ground for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello by Judith Shatin, George Enescu’s Violin Sonata No. 3, and Allegro di Concerto “Alla Mendelssohn” for double bass and piano by Giovanni Bottesini. WRUW, Case Western Reserve University. Click here to listen to the internet feed. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. The concert calendar has an expansive list of performances.

. Almanac: This weekend’s births include Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan, Otto Klemperer, and Claudio Monteverdi.

THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS:

There appears to be something for everyone this weekend, which offers music from the very old to the very new played by chamber groups, choruses, orchestras, brass and percussion ensembles, and soloists. Check our Concert Listings page for details. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Hybrid concerts from Trinity Cathedral and the Maltz

. Guitar Festival and Stroud Competition go live at CIM

. One composer to be remembered, another best forgotten.

TODAY’S EVENTS:

Two series continue today. At Noon, Trinity Cathedral lights more of the 200 candles on Belgian composer César Franck’s birthday gateau, with performances of his Organ Chorale No. 3 by Nicole Keller and Prélude, Fugue et Variation by Josh Kraybill on the recently installed Skinner organ, as well as perhaps his best-known chamber work, the Violin Sonata, to be played by Andrew Sords and Elizabeth DeMio.

Tonight at 7:30 at the Maltz Performing Arts Center, PianoCleveland hosts pianist Jonathan Biss (pictured) in “The Mind of Beethoven,” an episode in its Listening Series that will zero in on the composer’s often puzzling late sonatas. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Today’s concert listings page lists two events of note

. In the News: ENCORE Chamber Music announces summer events

. The Almanac: Buxtehude exits, Horowitz returns 

TODAY’S EVENTS:

At 2:00 pm Eric Charnofsky brings you the latest edition of his Radio Broadcast: Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music on Program on WRUW FM 91.1. The program includes the Piano Sonata by Paul Dukas, Anton Webern’s Five Movements for String Quartet, the Sonata for solo violin by Béla Bartók transcribed for viola, and a sonata for flute and basso continuo by Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht. Click here to listen to the internet feed.

At 7:30 pm at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, the Rocky River Chamber Music Society will present the Grigoryan Brothers Duo (Australia, pictured), Slava and Leonard Grigoryan, classical guitar.

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. An extensive list of concert choices

. In the News: Cleveland Orchestra tour and recording, Curtis Institute tries out an immersive orchestra concert experience

. Almanac: Composers George Perle and Victoria Bond celebrate birthdays and Johann Sebastian Bach meets Prussian King Frederick II in Potsdam

THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS:

With Mother’s Day weekend upon us, there’s plenty of live music in the area to add a little something special to the celebration. Here are our choices of concerts that offer a diverse selection of ensembles and musical styles — and many are free. Check our Concert Listings page for details. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Trinity FranckFest, Gordon square postcards, Tuesday Musical on Wednesday: “genre bending transformations” from Nu Deco Ensemble

. Jeremy Denk webinar

. Precursors of the grand piano, the phonograph record, and the international orchestral tour

TODAY’S EVENTS:

Today at Noon, Trinity Cathedral begins its celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of “French composer” César Franck with two of his organ works played by Nicole Keller and Josh Kraybill, and his Violin Sonata performed by Andrew Sords and pianist Elizabeth DeMio. [Read more…]

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…]