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DIARY: Tuesday, March 3, 2026

by Daniel Hathaway

HAPPENING TODAY:

At 12 Noon, organist Shiloh Roby (pictured), director of music at Trinity Cathedral, will play works by John Cook, Herbert Howells, David Briggs, Gerre Hancock, and Eugène Gigout on the Church of the Covenant’s Tuesday noon series.

And two chamber music events go head to head tonight at 7:30. At Disciples Church in Cleveland Heights, the Cleveland Chamber Music Society presents the Leonkoro Quartet, while Tuesday Musical hosts the Marsalis-McAllister-Ames Trio (Branford Marsalis and Timothy McAllister, saxophones, and pianist Liz Ames) in Akron’s E.J. Thomas Hall. For details of this and other classical events, visit the ClevelandClassical.com Concert Listings.

TODAY’S ALMANAC:

by Jarrett Hoffman

Composer and pianist Margaret Bonds was born in Chicago on this date in 1913. On the performing side of her career, she made history as the first Black musician to solo with the Chicago Symphony when she performed John Alden Carpenter’s Concertino for Piano and Orchestra on June 15, 1933. [Read More…]

Pre•Views & Features

Tuesday Musical: a conversation with saxophonists Timothy McAllister and Branford Marsalis – Part 2

By Mike Telin

On Tuesday, March 3 at 7:30 pm at Akron’s E.J. Thomas Hall, Tuesday Musical continues its season with the Marsalis-McAllister-Ames Trio — Branford Marsalis and Timothy McAllister, saxophones, and Liz Ames, piano. Tickets are available online.

I caught up with Branford Marsalis by phone in Durham, North Carolina. I began by asking him to share his recollection of how the trio met.

Branford Marsalis: I met Liz through her former husband who is a saxophonist. I went to a saxophone conference after I’d met her, and was just amazed at the volume of music that she could learn on the fly. If you’ve ever been to something like the North American Saxophone Alliance, you know that the pianists have to play something like twenty-five pieces in three days. And Liz had this massive volume of music that she walked around with, going from rehearsal room to rehearsal room, rehearsing with saxophonists from all over the country. I was just amazed by that. It left an impression on my mind. Wow, she’s amazing.

[Read on…]

Tuesday Musical: a conversation with saxophonists Timothy McAllister and Branford Marsalis – Part 1

By Mike Telin

“We’re all excited about what this combination brings forward,” saxophonist Timothy McAllister said during a Zoom conversation. “I think there’s a mutual love and the three of us are providing a safe space for each of us to be who we are. It’s just a celebration of music and friendship.”

On Tuesday, March 3 at 7:30 pm at Akron’s E.J. Thomas Hall, Tuesday Musical continues its season with the Marsalis-McAllister-Ames Trio. Branford Marsalis and Timothy McAllister, saxophones, and Liz Ames, piano. Tickets are available online.

Mike Telin: How did you and Liz and Branford come together as a trio?

[Read on…]

Leonkoro Quartet to bring lion-hearted strength to its CCMS debut on March

By Mike Telin

Founded in Berlin in 2019, the Leonkoro Quartet adopted its brave-sounding name from the Esperanto words for “lion” and “heart” and from Astrid Lindgren’s children’s book, The Brothers Lionheart. Two brothers, Jonathan and Lukas Schwarz, man the first violin and cello positions. Second violinist Emiri Kakiuchi and violist Mayu Konoe fill out the roster of a relatively new ensemble that impressed the chamber music demimonde in April of 2022 by winning a total of ten prizes at London’s Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition.

On Tuesday evening, March 3 at 7:30, the Leonkoro Quartet will make its Cleveland debut on the Cleveland Chamber Music Society series at Disciples Church, performing standard repertoire by Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Felix Mendelssohn.

I spoke with violist Mayu Konce in Columbus before the quartet’s recent engagement there, and posed questions about their repertory choices and some of the issues they’ve addressed as a new ensemble on the international concert circuit.

[Read on…]

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