by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
Today at 12 Noon, Piano Cleveland Live presents Cleveland International Piano Competition medalist Jiayan Sun & Friends in the Ames Family Atrium at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and on the Tuesday Organ Plus Series, organist Walker Whitehouse plays music by Herbert Howells, J.S. Bach & César Franck at the Church of the Covenant, University Circle.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
by Jarrett Hoffman
On this date in 1721, J.S. Bach dedicated his Six Concerts à plusieurs instruments to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt. That set of concerti grossi has since become known as the Brandenburg Concertos, hailed as some of the greatest works of the Baroque era.
On Sunday, March 22 at 3:00 pm at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Chicago-based Third Coast Percussion — Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, and David Skidmore — will present “Time Pieces: The New Classical.” The program celebrates two decades of genre-defying, award-winning music, including many of the ensemble’s 20th anniversary commissions. The concert is sold out.
When Allison Hillier was starting her graduate studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music, she needed to find a place that was within walking distance of the school. While apartment hunting in nearby neighborhoods, Hillier found herself walking through Little Italy. “I heard opera coming from restaurants, and I thought this is a really vibrant community. There’s a lot going on,” she recalled during a recent Zoom conversation.