by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
This evening at 6 pm, the Cleveland Chamber Choir celebrates both the Madness and Melancholy of March in the Donna and James Reid Gallery at the Cleveland Museum of Art, followed by a concert at 7 pm in Gartner Auditorium by the all-female sextet Maruja Limon (pictured) from Barcelona.
Also tonight in University Circle, the Cleveland Institute of Music will present its CIM Virtuosi at 7 pm, when Todd Phillips conducts music by Mozart, Grieg, and Copland in Mixon Hall.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
by Mike Telin
On March 25, 1881 composer, pianist, ethnomusicologist, and teacher Béla Viktor János Bartók was born in Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary, now Sânnicolau Mare, Romania.
Bartók began studying piano with his mother, and at age nine started composing dance pieces. From 1899 to 1903, he studied piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest. It was there that he met Zoltán Kodály and the two became lifelong friends and colleagues — they both shared an interest in folk music. [Read More…]
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.