MANSFIELD, Ohio – The Ohio State University at Mansfield will host a free special chamber music performance entitled “Beethoven, the Titan” at 2:30 p.m. March 1 in Riedl Hall.
Featured will be three nationally known classical musicians. Steven Glaser heads the piano area of Ohio State’s School of Music in Columbus.
Violinist Leonid Polonsky, a native of Moscow, is presently the associate concertmaster of the Columbus Symphony, and Wendy Morton, cellist, who for years played with the acclaimed Carpe Diem Quartet, is now assistant principal cellist with the Columbus Symphony. At Mansfield, she will play a priceless Florentine cello made by Giovanni Gabrielli in 1764.
The performance will feature two works of Beethoven – his “archduke” piano trio and his “Kreutzer” sonata.
Historians often refer to Beethoven as a “titan” because his works seemed to unleash a raw, visceral power which had never previously been experienced in western music. He is also remembered as a titan because he seemed to struggle constantly with societal conventions both musical and social—and he usually won.
The program will last approximately one hour.
