HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND:
A number of Black History Month events are scheduled for Saturday. At 7:30, the Akron Symphony (pictured) will celebrate the 30th anniversary of Gospel Meets Symphony, the Oberlin Artist Recital Series will present Trey McLaughlin & The Sounds of Zamar (preceded at 4 by a Community Gospel Singing Workshop), and also at 7:30, Christian McBride will host The Movement Revisited, an epic concert event at the Maltz PAC honoring Civil Rights icons Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King Jr. and former President Barack Obama.
Other orchestral performances include The Cleveland Orchestra in Beethoven’s Fifth and Schubert’s Sixth with guest conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste on Saturday at 8, and Sunday at 3 (both are now sold out), the final pair of CityMusic Cleveland “Symphony of Secrets” programs led by Brendan Slocumb on Saturday at 7:30 in Rocky River and Sunday at 4 in Akron, and your choice of the Suburban Symphony in Mahler’s Fourth under Martin Kessler or Heights Chamber Orchestra with hornist Richard King under Travis Jürgenson, both on Sunday at 3:30.
Also on Sunday, at 4 pm, Les Délices will present harpsichordist Mark Edwards in Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” at First Congregational in Hudson, and Oberlin will present a faculty recital on Sunday at 7:30 by the Verona Quartet with pianist Angela Cheng.
And off the beaten path, Oberlin’s 60-minute TIMARA event led by percussionist Ross Karre will feature “ homemade percussion instruments, subtle drones, energetic rhythms, live electronic music, and video projections” on Saturday at 1 pm at the Birenbaum, and the CIM New Music Ensemble will showcase works by composer Carlos Sanchez- Gutierrez on Sunday at 2 at the Art Museum.
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