by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
At 12 Noon, Oberlin organ major Owen Reyda plays works by Juan Cabanilles, Robert Schumann & August Gottfried Ritter’s Sonata No. 3 on the Tuesday Noon Organ Plus series at the Church of the Covenant in University Circle.
At 5:30 pm, Fairmount Presbyterian’s Rush Hour Concerts presents soprano Andrea Walker, soprano, and pianist Mikhail Grazhdanov in Winds of Spring: Songs by Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn. 2757 Fairmount Blvd., Cleveland Heights.
And tonight at 7:30 pm in Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Beethoven’s “Moonlight” & “Waldstein” Sonatas, Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, and Dobrinka Tabakova’s Nocturne & Halo.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
Here are some classical music playlists to mark St. Patrick’s Day, honoring the patron saint of Ireland, who departed this life on this date in 461. [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.”