by Daniel Hathaway
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
On Friday, The Cleveland Orchestra released details of its 2026 Blossom Music Center and Summers at Severance seasons. Click here to download the press release.
The Cooper International Violin Competition is now accepting applications for its 2026 contest at the Oberlin Conservatory. Open to violinists 13-18, the Cooper runs from Thursday, August 6 through August 10, 2026, and offers a total prize pool of $40,000. Application deadline is April 1. More information here.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
There’s quite a mixed list of arrivals and departures to acknowledge on this 16th day of March: Italian composer Giovanni Pergolesi (who died in 1736 in Pozzuoli of tuberculosis at the age of 26), American composer and conductor Edwin London (born in Philadelphia in 1929), English conductor Sir Roger Norrington (born in 1934 in Oxford), American composer David Del Tredici (born in 1937 in Cloverdale, California), Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (who died in Los Angeles in 1968), and American composer Roger Sessions (who died in Princeton, New Jersey in 1985 at the age of 88). [Read More…]
In the medieval era, musicians and poets had a different perspective on the process of creation. “They thought of composing as finding and seeking out words and notes that already exist,” Allison Monroe said in a recent phone interview. That’s why the artistic director named her ensemble Trobár — an Occitan-language word meaning “to find” or “to seek.”
