by Daniel Hathaway
WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS:
MARCH 13 – FRIDAY
7:00 pm – No Exit New Music. Cleveland Renaissance: Art of the Cleveland School. An exploration of one of Cleveland’s greatest artistic legacies through music and poetry. World premiere musical works along with new poetic creations. Praxis Fiber Workshop. Repeated on Saturday at 7 at SPACES.
7:30 pm – The Cleveland Orchestra. Elim Chan, conducts, with Michael Sachs, trumpet (pictured). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center. Repeated on Saturday at 7:30 and Sunday at 3.
MARCH 14 – SATURDAY
3:00 pm – Cleveland Silent Film Festival. A May Tale (1926). Live original score compiled from Central European folk music and performed by the Harmonia Ensemble in the Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium at the Main Cleveland Public Library.
7:30 pm – The Resonance Project. Chez Madame Singer: Portraits en Trio. The Poiema Trio presents an evening of French chamber music chez Madame Singer, whose Parisian salon fostered nearly all the great French composers of the 20th century. Forest Hill Church.
MARCH 15 – SUNDAY
3:30 pm – Western Reserve Chorale presents Mozart: Celebration and Solemnity at First Baptist Church in Shaker Heights.
4:00 pm – Singers Companye performs music from 17th & 18th Century European Chapels at Faith Lutheran Church, Fairlawn.
7:00 pm – CityMusic Cleveland plays chamber music by Clint Needham and Béla Bartók at Praxis Fiber Workshop.
For details of these and other classical events, visit the ClevelandClassical.com Concert Listings.
For details of these and other performances, please visit our Concert Listings page.
WEEKEND ALMANAC:
March 13: Austrian composer Hugo Wolf, most celebrated for his many Lieder, was born on this date in 1860 in Windisch. 127 years later, British pianist Gerald Moore died on March 13, 1987. Though composer and pianist obviously never met, we can conjoin their landmark dates today through German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, with whom Moore recorded Wolf’s Mörike Lieder — nearly two hours worth of music. [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.”
