by Daniel Hathaway
At 12 noon, Oberlin second-year student Owen Metz, who is double-majoring in organ performance and mathematics, will play Louis Vierne’s Third Symphony on the Church of the Covenant’s Tuesday Noon Organ Plus series. Attend in person or click here for the live stream.
And tonight at 7:30 on Akron’s Tuesday Musical series in E.J. Thomas Hall, pianist Aaron Diehl (pictured) will play solo piano works by Duke Ellington, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds, before joining bassist David Wong and drummer Aaron Kimmel, the other members of his trio, in jazz selections.
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TODAY’S ALMANAC:
February 13 witnessed the baptism of Spanish composer Fernando Sor in Barcelona in 1778, the final curtain call for German composer Richard Wagner in Bayreuth in 1883, and the birth of American composer George Kleinsinger in 1914. [Read more…]