Miscellany: Happy Dog, Tectonics, etc.

The Cleveland Orchestra, with or without the ailing Franz Welser-Möst, has various notable programs coming up: a California series at the Cleveland Museum of Art, including a Dane Rudhyar world premiere; and a series of community concerts in the Gordon Square area, including a return to the Happy Dog bar. Josh Smith's Happy Dog project is about to yield a CD.... A bow of the head for Robert Ward, composer of The Crucible, who died yesterday at the age of ninety-five.... The Mieczysław Weinberg revival continues apace: the Pacifica Quartet has included his meandering, mesmerizing Sixth Quartet on the of their superb Shostakovich survey; ACME plays his rugged Piano Quintet at the Morgan on April 18; Naxos has a recording of his Eighth Symphony, "Polish Flowers"; and David Pountney's potent production of The Passenger is coming to the Houston Grand Opera and Lincoln Center Festival next year.... Gregory Spears's operatic adaptation of Willa Cather's story "Paul's Case" will have its premiere at Urban Arias in Arlington VA on April 20.... Some remarkable programming for the Iceland Symphony's Tectonics Festival, April 18-20: Christian Wolff, Vinko Globokar, Henry Brant, Pauline Oliveros, and a host of Icelanders.... Closer to home, MATA (April 17-20) presents Jobina Tinnemans, Tel Aviv's Meitar Ensemble, Talea, and various others.