by Daniel Hathaway
2:00 pm – Ohio Light Opera. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel. Freedlander Theatre, College of Wooster.
7:00 pm – Kent Blossom Music Festival. Santiago Cañón-Valencia, cello (pictured), and Jee-Won Oh, piano. Ludwig Recital Hall, Kent State University.
7:30 pm – City Stages. Yeison Landero, accordion, at Transformer Station.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
Italian composer Ottorino Respighi was born on this date in 1879 in Bologna. A master orchestrator who insisted that song should be the “original and immortal element” in Italian music, he’s best known for his Roman tone poems. Watch a documentary, A Dream of Italy here, and listen to his infrequently-performed suite Vetrate di Chiesa (“Church Windows”) here. [Read More…]