by Jarrett Hoffman
IN THIS EDITION:
•Tonight’s schedule: a Cleveland Orchestra send-off concert, and an Arts & Culture Network Night
•New video: the All-Ohio Virtual Guitar Orchestra (pictured) makes its debut
•A feature on Native composers, including the experimental writing of Raven Chacon, and Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate’s impressionistic approach to referencing tribal music
•Almanac: Leonard Bernstein (in the words of his daughter Jamie Bernstein), and Undine Smith Moore, the “Dean of Black Women Composers”
HAPPENING TODAY:
At 7:30 pm, The Cleveland Orchestra gives the first of two send-off concerts before embarking on a three-week tour of Europe. This evening’s program at Mandel Hall includes Wolfgang Rihm’s Verwandlung II & III and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9. (Tomorrow’s program swaps out those works for music by Richard Strauss and Alban Berg.) Get your tickets here.
Not so much a concert, but another event of interest on the calendar today is a free Arts & Culture Network Night at the LGBT Center in Gordon Square from 6-8 pm, hosted by Neighborhood Connections and Cuyahoga Arts & Culture. It’s aimed at artists, art supporters, and anyone who works at an arts-related organization, and there will be a performance by flamenco dancer Alice Blumenthal, founder of Northeast Ohio-based dance company ABREPASO. Register here.