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DIARY: Thursday, January 12, 2023

January 12, 2023 by Jarrett Hoffman

by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Tonight: Cleveland Orchestra plays Berg and Schubert

•News: Jejuana C. Brown (pictured) joins the Orchestra as Director of Diversity & Inclusion

•Almanac: Morton Feldman and his important decision to leave a concert early

HAPPENING TODAY:

Tonight at 7:30 pm, Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra will be joined by Joélle Harvey (soprano), Daryl Freedman (mezzo-soprano), Julian Prégardien and Martin Mitterrutzner (tenors), Dashon Burton (bass-baritone), and the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus for a program that includes Berg’s Lyric Suite and two works by Schubert: the Symphony No. 8 and the Mass No. 6. Interestingly, the movements of the Berg and Schubert 8 are interwoven — Berg, Schubert, Berg, Schubert, Berg. Take a look here, where you can also find tickets. It’s the first of three performances over the coming days.

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Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble at the Cleveland Museum of Art (November 1)

November 4, 2014 by Daniel Hathaway

by Daniel Hathaway

Musicians who are inclined to talk to the audience during concerts should take their lead from Timothy Weiss. On Saturday afternoon in Gartner Auditorium of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the director of the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble gave cogent and dryly humorous introductions to music by Luke Bedford, Philip Cashian and Morton Feldman, and conducted a brief, impromptu interview with composer Sean Shepherd. [Read more…]

Oberlin Opera stages a Cendrillon of professional quality (Nov. 10)

by Daniel Hathaway

Any regional opera company would be popping its buttons with pride to have produced such an impressive performance of Jules Massenet’s Cendrillion (Cinderella) as Oberlin Opera did in Hall Auditorium on Sunday afternoon, November 10.

Imaginative staging by Stephanie Havey, skillful pacing by conductor James Feddeck, beautiful set design and costuming by Laura Carlson-Tarantowski and Chris Flaharty, respectively, plus dramatic and — for the fairies — enchanting lighting by Jeremy K. Benjamin provided a supportive environment for splendid singing by the cast and brilliant playing by the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra.

Literally thousands of versions of the Cinderella tale exist in cultures around the globe, but many of the details of Massenet’s opera date back to Charles Perrault’s 1697 Cendrillon ou la petite pantoufle de verre, which adds what have now become essential elements to the tale: a young girl mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, who temporarily attracts the attention of a handsome prince at a royal ball and is eventually reunited with him to become a princess herself. [Read on…]

Seraph Brass dances through musical travels in Rocky River (Nov. 11)

by Stephanie Manning

Before Seraph Brass arrived in Ohio on November 11, the group’s fall touring season had taken them on the road to Missouri, Florida, New York, and even Peru. And at the Rocky River Chamber Music Society, they gave the audience a taste of the traveling life right from the first piece.

The “Prelude” from Edvard Greig’s Holberg Suite whisked listeners away to Norway, with a melody surely familiar to many. It was extra familiar to the brass quintet themselves, who launched into their opening number without sheet music. Playing memorized is part of the group’s trademark, and they smoothly alternated using music and no music throughout the evening. Either way, the wide-ranging program had those at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church spellbound.

Trumpet players Mary Elizabeth Bowden and Raquel Samayoa, horn player Layan Atieh, trombonist Lauren Casey-Clyde, and tuba player Robyn Black sounded equally comfortable in Romantic and contemporary repertoire, flipping between both with practiced ease. [Read on…]

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