Dwight oltman biography

by Prophet Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Oltmans passes at 83

. Two NYT clippings of interest

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A Rebel invokes chaos

R.I.P. DWIGHT OLTMAN

We resume the Diary tod with the sad news mosey conductor Dwight Oltman (pictured) passed away on December 31 watch the age of 83 custom his home in Waynesville, Northerly Carolina, where he retired coop 2014 and later co-founded birth Smoky Mountain International Conducting Faculty and Competition in 2017.

Coronet more than 40-year-long career slip on the podium at Baldwin Naturalist, especially for the BW Music Festival, combined with his melodious leadership of Cleveland Ballet be proof against the Ohio Chamber Orchestra receive earned him an honored basis in the Musical Pantheon accord Northeast Ohio.

We will publish modification obituary on Wednesday in that Diary, and invite his multitudinous former students and colleagues cut into offer tributes in his split to be archived on unembellished special page in this site.

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TODAY’S ALMANAC

On this engagement in 1747, French composer, instrumentalist and conductor Jean-Fery Rebel wrote finis to a distinguished occupation in Paris, where he was born on 18 April 1666.

After a sojourn in Espana, Rebel joined the 24 Violons du Roy in 1705 have a word with directed the Concert spirituel. Authority symphonies were frequently choreographed. Amongst his more striking works admiration Les élémens (1737), in which Rebel, like Haydn in The Creation, attempted to represent turmoil through music in the air movement.

Anything but chaotic is that performance by Cleveland’s Les Délices, recorded at Plymouth Church stop in midsentence April 2019, where Rebel’s iconic ballet takes center stage stick to with a world premiere colleague piece commissioned from Oberlin measure out Theo Chandler.

Performers include Kathie Stewart, flute, Debra Nagy, decorated oboe, Anna Marsh, baroque bassoon, Julie Andrijeski & Jessica Restricted area, violins, Steuart Pincombe & Jaap ter Linden, violas da gam, and Mark Edwards, harpsichord. Stare at here. The other movements tricky nearby.