Archives for October 2025

by Daniel Hathaway 

WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS:

• The Cleveland Institute of Music will inaugurate its renovated Kulas Hall (pictured) on Friday at 7:30 with a Grand Re-opening program by the CIM Orchestra conducted by Carlos Miguel Prieto and starring Gabriela Montero both as composer and piano soloist. On the playlist: Montero’s Concerto No. 1, “Latin,” Jerod Tate’s “Fani’ (Squirrel)” from Woodland Songs, Silvestre Revueltas’ Sensemayá, Carlos Chávez’s Symphony No. 2, “Sinfonía India,” and José Pablo Moncayo’s Huapango. 
• BlueWater Chamber Orchestra will open its season on Saturday at 7:30 in Lakewood Civic Auditorium in collaboration with Ohio Contemporary Ballet. Daniel Meyer will conduct three dance pieces —  Nicholas Rose’s Sehnsucht (music from Elgar’s Serenade for Strings), Heinz Poll’s Adagio for Two (music from Albinoni’s Adagio in G minor), and Paul Taylor’s Airs (music by George Frideric Handel) — as well as Schubert’s Symphony No. 5.
• Franz Welser-Möst leads The Cleveland Orchestra in Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (Song of the Earth) featuring tenor Limmie Puilliam and baritone Iurii Samoilov and Arthur Honegger’s symphony liturgique on Sunday at 3 at Severance.

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by Daniel Hathaway 

HAPPENING TODAY:

Today at Noon, Youngstown State’s Dana School of Music’s Music at Noon Series presents the Ficocelli Trio — Erick Ramos, violin, Heewon Jeon, cello, and Allison Hillier, piano — in Haydn’s Piano Trio in G, “Gypsy,” and Dvořák’s Piano Trio No. 4 in e, “Dumky” at the McDonough Museum of Art.

Tonight at 8 at Severance, Franz Welser-Möst leads The Cleveland Orchestra in Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (Song of the Earth) featuring tenor Limmie Puilliam (pictured) and baritone Iurii Samoilov, and Arthur Honegger’s symphony liturgique.

TODAY’S ALMANAC:

German composer Max Bruch died on this date in Berlin-Friedenau in 1920. Inspired by Brahms and mostly known as a choral composer during his lifetime, Bruch is now celebrated for a few instrumental works that have remained popular. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway 

HAPPENING TODAY:

At 12 noon, the Cleveland Museum of Art hosts Chamber Music in the Galleries featuring young artists from Case Western Reserve University’s Historical Performance Practice Program in the Donna and James Reid Gallery.

NEW — WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS:

Beginning this week, we’ll publish a select list of weekend classical music events that we believe have special merit and shouldn’t be missed. Look for those in the Wednesday Diary and the Thursday Newsletter. (If you’re not receiving our newsletter, sign up here. It’s free!)

This week’s recommendations are all orchestra concerts.

• Franz Welser-Möst leads The Cleveland Orchestra in Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von die Erde (Song of the Earth) featuring tenor Limmie Puilliam and baritone Iurii Samoilov and Arthur Honegger’s symphony liturgique on Thursday at 8 and Saturday at 3 at Severance.
• The Cleveland Institute of Music will inaugurate its renovated Kulas Hall (pictured) on Friday at 7:30 with a Grand Re-opening program by the CIM Orchestra conducted by Carlos Miguel Prieto and starring Gabriela Montero both as composer and piano soloist. On the playlist: Montero’s Concerto No. 1, “Latin,” Jerod Tate’s “Fani’ (Squirrel)” from Woodland Songs, Silvestre Revueltas’ Sensemayá, Carlos Chávez’s Symphony No. 2, “Sinfonía India,” and José Pablo Moncayo’s Huapango. 
• BlueWater Chamber Orchestra will open its season on Saturday at 7:30 in Lakewood Civic Auditorium in collaboration with Ohio Contemporary Ballet. Daniel Meyer will conduct three dance pieces —  Nicholas Rose’s Sehnsucht (music from Elgar’s Serenade for Strings), Heinz Poll’s Adagio for Two (music from Albinoni’s Adagio in G minor), and Paul Taylor’s Airs (music by George Frideric Handel) — as well as Schubert’s Symphony No. 5.

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