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Reflecting on the past year that was 2021, I asked myself: How did a concert stand out in its medium, whatever said medium was?

The quartet musicians and composers featured in AS Momenta Festival discussed how they've been making music during the pandemic.

Exaudi. This lunchtime recital, entitled Chromatic Renaissance, intersperses 16th and 17th-century works with a selection of madrigals from contemporary composer James Weeks’s Primo Libro. The program opens with four of Orlande de Lassus’s Sibylline Prophecies 2 pm ET: Hamburg International Music Festival presents Insula Orchestra & Laurence Equilbey. Laurence Equilbey conducts Insula Orchestra and Accentus Choir in an all-Schumann program comprising Vom Pagen und der Königstochter O...

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Jonathan Plowright. The British pianist opens this concert with Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s D minor Chaconne which was performed by Busoni himself at the opening of the Hall almost 120 years ago. This is followed by the six pieces that make up Liszt’s Consolations S172. The concert closes with Grieg’s Holberg Suite Op. 40, originally written for piano before Grieg adapted it for string orchestra. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE 1...

WTJU Feb 26th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves The Classics a Day team has celebrated Black composers before. This time around, I tried to avoid duplication with previous posts. It was easy to do. There is a lot of classical music by persons of color, both in the past as well as the present. A lot. Here are my posts for the fourth week of #BlackHistoryMonth for #ClassicsaDay. 02/22/21 Clarence Cameron White – Levee Dance White was one of the best violinists at the turn of the 20th Century. His r...

7 pm ET: Lawrence Brownlee presents The Sitdown with LB. The tenor’s Facebook Live series returns with an unfiltered and honest look inside the opera industry. This week: Management, featuring Matthew Horner (IMG Artists) and Alex Fletcher (Fletcher Artist Management). View here. LIVE ** 7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. Starring Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, and Gabriel Bacquier, conducted by Nicola Rescigno. Production by John Dexter. Fr...

2 pm ET: NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester presents Gilbert conducts Prokofiev. Daniil Trifonov joins Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra for Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto under the leadership of Chief Conductor Alan Gilbert who also leads the orchestra in an account of the composer’s Classical Symphony. View here. 2 pm ET: The Royal Opera House presents Puccini’s Il Trittico. Il Tabarro, set aboard a barge on the Seine, stars Lucio Gallo as Michele, Eva-Maria Westbroek as Giorge...

Cleveland Heights League of Women Voters weighs in on 10-month City Council vacancy Thomas Jewell, cleveland.com CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — The city’s League of Women Voters has taken City Council to task over its failure to fill a vacancy that will soon be entering its 11th month. That comes after the advocacy group took on the considerable task of interviewing more than 20 applicants for the seat last year — at council’s request — LWV Cleveland Heights-University Heig...

Lara Downes Launches Rising Sun Music Celebrating Black Composers Featured performers include Nicole Cabell; Regina Carter; Anat Cohen; Lara Downes; Randall Goosby; Stewart Goodyear; Ivalas Quartet and more.by BWW News Desk Inspired by her own mixed-race heritage and career-long engagement with diverse musical traditions, pianist Lara Downes creates and curates a new digital recording venture, Rising Sun Music, that sheds a bright light on the music and stories of Black composers over the past...

ATLANTA — During an extraordinary time of triple crises — pandemic, upheaval, and racial unrest — the 2021 Atlanta Music Festival draws attention to the environment, an often-overlooked aspect of