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DIARY: Thursday, March 21, 2024

March 21, 2024 by Jarrett Hoffman

by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Today: The Cleveland Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, the U4U Band from Ukraine, Oberlin PI Ensembles, and the Oberlin College Choir and Chamber Singers

•Announcements: Blossom Festival Chorus auditions, Firelands School of Music teaching openings, and an event for artists to up their business knowledge

•Almanac: the forward-thinking electronic music of Ruth Anderson

DIARY: Tuesday, March 21, 2023

March 21, 2023 by Jarrett Hoffman

by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Today: organist Ralph Holzhauser makes a noon-time visit to Church of the Covenant

•Announcement: applications open for Assembly for the Arts’ Creative Impact Fund

•In the news: Met ordered to pay $200K to Netrebko, and a look at the “Violin Capital of China”

•Almanac: electronic music composer Ruth Anderson and one brilliant, funny sound collage

HAPPENING TODAY:

Today’s Tuesday Noon Organ Plus Concert from Church of the Covenant features organist Ralph Holzhauser, who will play music by J.S. Bach (Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV 547), Florence Price (Elf on a Moonbeam), Charles-Marie Widor (Final from Symphony No. 8), George Shearing (I Love Thee, Lord and There is a Happy Land), and Marcel Dupré (Prelude and Fugue in B, Op. 7, No. 3). A freewill offering will be taken up.

Virtual performances from Hudson, Cleveland, and Akron launch season

September 22, 2020 by Daniel Hathaway

by Daniel Hathaway

Music From the Western Reserve, Music and Art at Trinity Cathedral, and Arts at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church all streamed concerts online in September, all without audiences present.

As organizations gingerly take steps to open up for business, it’s refreshing to have new content to listen to and write about after a solid six months of archival footage. [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…]

Cleveland Orchestra’s Beethoven Concerto Cycle performance featured pairing of rising star and mentor (Nov. 15)

This article was originally published on Cleveland.com

By Daniel Hathaway

CLEVELAND, Ohio — For the third program in The Cleveland Orchestra’s Beethoven Piano Concerto Cycle, the pairing of 20-year-old Korean pianist Yunchan Lim with his mentor Minsoo Sohn was an astute programming decision.

Well-established names on the concert circuit — Orion Weiss, Sir Stephen Hough, and Garrick Ohlsson — had already filled the empty solo spots for the composer’s Triple Concerto and solo concertos 2, 3, and 4. But the choice of the youngest pianist ever to win the Van Cliburn Competition to close out the Cleveland series packed Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center on Friday evening, November 15, with a near-capacity audience teeming with enthusiastic young people.

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