by Jarrett Hoffman
IN THIS EDITION:
•Today: clarinet and strings at the Covenant, Jerusalem Quartet (pictured) at CCMS, and Oberlin Chamber Singers at Fairchild
•Announcement: tickets available for Re:Sound Festival
•Almanac: William Levi Dawson, the “Dean of African American Choral Composers”
HAPPENING TODAY:
At 12 pm, the Church of the Covenant presents a chamber music concert featuring clarinet and strings (clarinetist Dominic Giardino, violinists Guillermo Salas Suárez and Phaik Tzhi Chua, violist Jonathan Goya, and cellist Jane Leggiero). The program is titled “Drama and Delight at the Dawn of Romanticism,” and it includes Bernhard Crusell’s Op. 4 Clarinet Quartet in c and Anton Reicha’s String Quartet in G, Op. 90, No. 2. A freewill offering will be taken up. You can also stream it here.
Strings take center stage at at Disciples Christian Church at 7:30 pm, when the Jerusalem Quartet — violinists Alexander Pavlovksy and Sergei Bresler, violist Ori Kam, and cellist Kyril Zlotnikov — will visit the Cleveland Chamber Music Society, bringing with them Prokofiev’s Quartet No. 2 in F, Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 10 in A-flat, and Bartók’s Quartet No. 6. Brian MacGilvray will give a pre-concert lecture at 6:30. Tickets are available here.
Also at 7:30, at Fairchild Chapel, Ben Johns will lead the Oberlin Chamber Singers in works by Robert Schumann, Gustav Holst, Erika Lloyd, Charles Stanford, Irving Berlin, Ward Swingle, Mozart, and Billy Joel — program details and livestream link here. It’s free.