by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Today: Cleveland Chamber Symphony highlights emerging composers, CMA presents Le Poème Harmonique in music that would have been heard by a young Louis XIV, and pianist Gerardo Teissonnière is featured in a CIM faculty recital

•Announcements: a musicological article by BW graduate Chase Castle, young people’s concerts from the Canton Symphony, and a survey from the Ohio Arts Council

•Interesting reads: a new documentary about Fanny Mendelssohn and how her talents were kept quiet

•Almanac: Strauss Jr.’s Blue Danube, Bizet’s Carmen, and the many sides of Midori

HAPPENING TODAY:

At 7:00 at Baldwin Wallace’s Gamble Auditorium, Steven Smith leads the Cleveland Chamber Symphony in a free concert of music by seven of the area’s young and emerging composers: Benjamin Brody (University of Akron), Julia Grady (Baldwin Wallace), Adam Har-zvi (Bowling Green), Gabriel Stossel (CIM), Alexandra Vaduva (Cleveland State), Haider Riaz (Kent State), and Jake Berran (Oberlin). You can also watch a free livestream here.

At 7:30 at Gartner Auditorium, the CMA Performing Arts Series presents Le Poème Harmonique (pictured) in “Music for a Young King,” which explores music that would have been heard in the court of young Louis XIV, including traditional French chansons, works by Moulinié, de Lalande, and Charpentier, and excerpts from the first operas performed in France by Lully and Cavalli. Tickets are available online.

Also at 7:30, at Mixon Hall, a CIM Faculty Recital will feature pianist Gerardo Teissonnière in Schubert’s Four Impromptus and Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 32 in c. It’s free but reservations are required.

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