A two-week calendar is published every Monday including local events and streams of interest to listeners and viewers in Northeast Ohio. Dates with no scheduled events are not listed.
Click here to view Musical America’s Guide to (mostly) free streams through December 7.
NOVEMBER 30 – MONDAY
12:00 pm – Lunchtime with The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, conductor. Mozart’s Flute Concerto No. 1 (Joshua Smith) & Ottorino Respighi’s St. Gregory the Great from (Church Windows). WCLV 104.9 Ideastream & on the web.
7:30 pm – Les Délices Salonera: Unwritten Traditions, Masters of improvisation. Robert Mealy, Shira Kammen, Priscilla Herreid, and Mark Edwards talk about their work and inspiration in reconstructing lost musical traditions from Medieval to Baroque. Click here at start time. Free but $10 donation suggested.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, starring Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Valery Gergiev. From February 24, 2007. Click here at start time.
DECEMBER 1 – TUESDAY
12:00 pm – Lunchtime with The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, conductor. Respighi: Antiche danze ed arie Set 3 & Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Yefim Bronfman). WCLV 104.9 Ideastream & on the web.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams: Verdi’s Aida, starring Leontyne Price, Fiorenza Cossotto, James McCracken, and Simon Estes, conducted by James Levine. From January 3, 1985. Click here at start time.
DECEMBER 2 – WEDNESDAY
12:00 pm – Trinity Virtual Brownbag Concerts: A Jazzy Christmas, Jennifer Cochran, vocalist & The Gateway Band. Streamed (no audience) from Trinity Cathedral. Click here at start time. Freewill offering.
12:00 pm – Lunchtime with The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, conductor. Beethoven’s Presto from String Quartet No. 14 (arr. Dimitri Mitropoulos), Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 & Beethoven’s Scherzo & Finale from String Quartet No. 10 “Harp” (for string orchestra). WCLV 104.9 Ideastream & on the web.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams: Wagner’s Parsifal, starring Katarina Dalayman, Jonas Kaufmann, Peter Mattei, Evgeny Nikitin, and René Pape, conducted by Daniele Gatti. From March 2, 2013. Click here at start time.
DECEMBER 3 – THURSDAY
12:00 pm – Lunchtime with The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, conductor. Richard Strauss’s Burleske (Mitsuko Uchida, piano) & Schubert’s Symphony No. 2. WCLV 104.9 Ideastream & on the web.
[RESCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER 10] 7:00 pm – Cleveland Orchestra In Focus: Episode 4, Nicholas McGegan, conducting from the harpsichord. Handel’s Overture and Pifa Pastorale from Messiah, Corelli’s Concerto Grosso Opus 6, No. 8 (“Christmas Concerto”), J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 & Mendelssohn’s String Symphony No. 7. Click here to access on the Orchestra’s Adella streaming platform (available on demand following the premiere). Subscription required.
7:00 pm – CWRU Chamber Music Concert, performers & program to be announced. Livestreamed from the Maltz Performing Arts Center. Click here at start time. Free, but reserve tickets here.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams: Verdi’s Macbeth, starring Anna Netrebko, Joseph Calleja, Željko Lučić, and René Pape, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From October 11, 2014. Click here at start time.
DECEMBER 4- FRIDAY
12:00 pm – Lunchtime with The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, conductor, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Robert Porco, conductor. Leroy Anderson’s A Christmas Festival, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 in G (Leif Ove Andsnes), Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols (Todd Boyce, baritone & John Williams’ Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas from Home Alone 2 . WCLV 104.9 Ideastream & on the web.
4:00 pm – Arts at Holy Trinity: Advent Procession of Lessons and Carols, with Holy Trinity’s choirs, Les Délices & the Firestone Madrigal Singers. Pre-recorded for streaming at this time (available on demand for one week). Click here at start time. Freewill offering.
7:00 pm – Case/University Circle Symphony Orchestra, performers & program to be announced. Livestreamed from the Maltz Performing Arts Center. Click here at start time. Free, but reserve tickets here.
7:30 pm – University of Akron Flute Choir, Lindsay Leach-Sparks, director. Solo and ensemble works by Ian Clarke, Carl Stamitz, G.F. Handel, Pierre Octave Ferroud & CPE Bach. . Watch online only. Click here at start time. Free.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams: Bizet’s Carmen, starring Barbara Frittoli, Elīna Garanča, Roberto Alagna, and Teddy Tahu Rhodes, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. From January 16, 2010. Click here at start time.
8:00 pm – Kent Jazz Studies Ensembles Fall Concert, performers & program to be announced. Webcast only. Click here at start time.
8:00 pm – Western Reserve Chorale Archive Performances, Program 1 of 3, David Gilson, conducting. Winter Celebration. The 30 minute program will be available on demand through Sunday evening. Click here at start time. Free. www.westernreservechorale.org
DECEMBER 5 – SATURDAY
2:00 pm – Voces8 & The Aeolians Live from London, a reflection on a tumultuous year features six new commissioned works. Music by Ken Burton, Taylor Scott Davis, Melissa Dunphy, Jocelyn Hagen, Paul Smith & Roderick Williams. Click here for tickets and to connect at start time.
3:00 pm – Concerts at St. Thomas, NYC: Nicholas Haigh, organ. Messiaen’s La Nativité du Seigneur. Grand Organ Series. Click here for tickets and to connect (available on demand for a limited time after the premiere).
4:00 pm – BW Men’s Chorus Virtual Concert, Frank Bianchi, conducting. Click here at start time. Free tickets required.
7:30 pm – Kent State New Music Ensemble, performers & program to be announced. Webcast only. Click here at start time. Free.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams: Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, starring Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle, Tatiana Troyanos, and James King, conducted by James Levine. From March 12, 1988. Click here at start time.
8:00 pm – Cleveland Orchestra on the Radio, Franz Welser-Möst conducting. Olga Neuwirth’s Masaot/Clocks without Hands & Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. WCLV, 104.9 Ideastream or on the web.
8:30 – Oberlin Stage Left: Oberlin Chamber Orchestra & Sinfonietta, Raphael Jiménez & Timothy Weiss, conducting. Tomàs Peire Serrate’s Miratges (2014), Jesse Jones’ Sextet (After Beethoven) Op. 54 (2016), Marcus Balter’s Violin Concerto (2016) & Francis Poulenc’s Sextet for Piano & Winds (1932). Click here at start time. Free. https://www.oberlin.edu/conservatory/stage-left/large-ensembles
DECEMBER 6 – SUNDAY
2:00 pm – The Gilmore: Yefim Bronfman, piano. Program includes Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata & Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque. Virtual Piano Masters Series. Click here for ticketing (voluntary donation) and to connect.
3:00 pm – Alkemie, Tracy Cowart (voice, harps, percussion), David McCormick (vielle, percussion), Elena Mullins (voice, percussion), Sian Ricketts (voice, douçaines, recorders) & Niccolo Seligmann (composer; vielles, scheitholt, percussion). “Mirroring the Other: Reflecting the Jewish Experience in Medieval Germany. Click here for tickets and to connect.
3:00 pm – Kent State Bands Fall Concert, performers & program to be announced. Webcast only. Click here at start time. Free.
3:00 pm – & 7:00 pm — Baldwin Wallace Virtual Annual Holiday Concert, with the Motet, University & Treble Choirs, BW Singers, Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble & Music Theatre. Program to be announced. Click here for free tickets (required). Links will be emailed at 1:15 and 5:15 pm.
4:00 pm – Cleveland Orchestra on the Radio, Franz Welser-Möst, conducting, Joseph Lulloff, alto saxophone. Ingolf Dahl’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone & Wind Ensemble & Dvořák’s Symphony No. 5. WCLV, 104.9 Ideastream or on the web.
7:00 pm – CityMusic Cleveland: Baroque Reflections, Miho Hashizume & Guillermo Suárez, baroque violins, Yaël Senamaud-Cohen, baroque viola, Sophie Benn, baroque cello, Tracy Rowell, bass, QinYing Tan, harpsichord & Sarah Coffman, soprano and viola de gamba. Vivaldi’s Concerto for strings in g, RV 157, Isabella Leonarda’s Sonata duodecima, Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre’s Chamber Sonata No. 1, Wilhelmine von Bayreuth’s Harpsichord Concerto in g, Selections from the Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani’s Concerti sacri, Op. 2: Ecce annuntio vobis, Leonora Duarte’s 3 Sinfonias & Barbara Strozzi’s Che si può fare. This concert will be live streamed only (note time change). Free. Click here at start time.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams: Puccini’s Tosca, starring Shirley Verrett, Luciano Pavarotti, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by James Conlon. From December 19, 1978. Click here at start time.
DECEMBER 7 – MONDAY
12:00 pm – Lunchtime with The Cleveland Orchestra. Wilberg: One December, Bright and Clear (Robert Porco, conductor), Handel: Messiah: ‘And the glory of the Lord’ (Porco), Berlioz: L’Enfance du Christ: ‘The Shepherds’ Farewell’ (Porco), Bruckner: First Movement from Symphony No. 4 ‘Romantic,’ Bennett: The Many Moods of Christmas: Medley No. 1 (Porco) & Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: ‘Waltz of the Flowers’ (Porco). WCLV 104.9 Ideastream & on the web.
7:00 pm – CIM Orchestra, Ilya Kaler & Vinay Parameswaran, conducting, Duo Shen, student conductor. Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, Op. 48, Suk’s Serenade for Strings, Op. 6 & Britten’s Simple Symphony, Op. 4. Click here at start time. Free.
7:30 pm – Rocky River Chamber Music Society: Cleveland Orchestra musicians. Peter Otto and Yun-Ting Lee, violins, Lembi Veskimets, viola, Dane Johansen, cello & Daniel McKelway, clarinet. “Nothing But Mozart:” String Quartet in C and Clarinet Quintet in A. Live stream from West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church with no audience present. Click here at start time.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams: Thomas Adès’s The Tempest, starring Audrey Luna, Isabel Leonard, Iestyn Davies, Alek Shrader, Alan Oke, William Burden, Toby Spence, and Simon Keenlyside, conducted by Thomas Adès. From November 10, 2012. Click here at start time.
DECEMBER 8 – TUESDAY
12:00 pm – Lunchtime with The Cleveland Orchestra. Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela, Smith: Fear Not Good Shepherds (Gareth Morrell, conductor, Cleveland Orchestra Children’s Chorus, Joela Jones, piano), Traditional: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Morrell), Mathias: A Babe is Born (Morrell), Redner’s O Little Town of Bethlehem (Morrell), Sibelius: Tapiola, J.S. Bach: Mass in b: ‘Dona nobis pacem’ (Robert Shaw, conductor) & Handel: And the glory of the Lord (Shaw). WCLV 104.9 Ideastream & on the web.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams: John Adams’ Doctor Atomic, starring Sasha Cooke, Thomas Glenn, Gerald Finley, Richard Paul Fink, and Eric Owens, conducted by Alan Gilbert. From November 8, 2008. Click here at start time.
7:30 pm – Oberlin Sinfoniettta, Timothy Weiss, conducting, Herdis Gudmonsdottir, violin. Student composition to be announced, Liam Kaplan’s Violin Concerto, Phi Bui’s Patina & Julian Anderson’s Alhambra Fantasy. Click here at start time.
DECEMBER 9 – WEDNESDAY
12:00 pm – Trinity Virtual Brownbag Concerts: Trebles of the Cathedral Choir, with Jody Guinn, harp. Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols. Pre-recorded performance (no audience present) in Trinity Cathedral. Click here at start time. Freewill offering.
12:00 pm – Lunchtime with The Cleveland Orchestra. Adam: O Holy Night (Robert Porco, conductor, Robert Sullivan & Jack Sutte, trumpets), Kirkpatrick: Away in a Manger (Porco), Traditional: Deck the Halls (Porco), Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D (Nikolaj Znaider) & Mendelssohn: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Porco). WCLV 104.9 Ideastream & on the web.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams: Britten’s Peter Grimes, starring Patricia Racette, Anthony Dean Griffey, and Anthony Michaels-Moore, conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles. From March 15, 2008. Click here at start time.
7:30 pm – Oberlin Arts & Sciences Orchestra Chamber Music Broadcast, Tiffany Chang, director & video assembly. Marion Bauer’s Duo (Sammy Siegel, oboe, Amelia Bronfman, clarinet), Malcolm Arnold’s Divertimento (Larisa Bushkin, flute, Jason Zhong, oboe & Ellie Lane, clarinet), Saverio Mercadante’s Serenade No. 2 (Shivani Subramaniam, Benita Johnson & Claudia Darnell, flutes), Daiki Kato’s Twins (Julian Anderson & Hilary Craig, percussion), Mozart’s Trio K. 498 (”Kegelstatt,” Lawrence Mirel, clarinet, Enid Cleary, viola & Diane Haley, piano), Paul De Wailly‘s Aubade (Kerensa Fu, flute, Caroline Komenda, oboe & Elsa Friedmann, clarinet) & Ingolf Dahl’s Chorale Fantasy (Conner Wyman & Harry Mayrhofer, trumpets, Cait Boblitt, horn, Auggie Fisher, Thomas Hill, & David Gudjonsonn, trombones & Cameron Randall & Jack Rosenberg, tubas). Pre-recorded for broadcast at this time. Free. Click here at start time.
DECEMBER 10 – THURSDAY
12:00 pm – Lunchtime with The Cleveland Orchestra. J.S. Bach: Motet, Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (Margaret Hillis, conductor), Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 ‘Scottish,’ Anon. The Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy (Clayton H. Krehbiel, conductor) & Holdst: In the Bleak Midwinter (Gareth Morrell, conductor). WCLV 104.9 Ideastream & on the web.
7:30 pm – Les Délices: Noel, Noel — Carols & Poetry for Christmastime, with retired WCPN host Dee Perry. Original arrangements of carols from French, English, and German traditions interleaved with poems by Christina Rossetti, e.e. cummings, and Thomas Campion, plus recent work by Northeast Ohio poets Dave Lucas, Diane Kendig, and Julie Warther. Click here for tickets.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams: Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel, starring Audrey Luna, Amanda Echalaz, Sally Matthews, Sophie Bevan, Alice Coote, Christine Rice, Iestyn Davies, Joseph Kaiser, Frédéric Antoun, David Portillo, David Adam Moore, Rod Gilfry, Kevin Burdette, Christian Van Horn, and John Tomlinson. conducted by Thomas Adès. From November 18, 2017. Click here at start time.
DECEMBER 11 – FRIDAY
12:00 pm – Lunchtime with The Cleveland Orchestra. Mason: Joy to the World (Robert Page, conductor), Traditional: Angels we Have Heard on High (Page), Tormé: The Christmas Song (Page), Coots: Santa Claus is Coming to Town (Page), Respighi’s RESPIGHI: La boutique fantasque Anon. Spiritual: ‘Ain’-a That Good News!’ (Page). WCLV 104.9 Ideastream & on the web.
12:00 pm – Ideastream Applause Performances: Factory Seconds Brass Trio, Jesse McCormick, horn, Jack Sutte, trumpet & Rick Stout, trombone. Holiday music. Click here at start time. Free.
7:00 pm – Case Camerata Chamber Orchestra. Program to be announced. Livestreamed from the Maltz Performing Arts Center. Click here at start time. Free, but reserve tickets here.
7:30 pm – Kent State Choral Collage Fall Concert. Performers & program to be announced. Webcast only. Click here at start time. Free.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, starring Angel Blue, Golda Schultz, Latonia Moore, Denyce Graves, Frederick Ballentine, Eric Owens, Alfred Walker, and Donovan Singletary, conducted by David Robertson. From February 1, 2020. Click here at start time.
8:00 pm – Western Reserve Chorale Holiday Retrospective, Program 2 of 3, David Gilson, conducting. Program to be announced. Click here at start time, program available through Sunday evening. Free.
DECEMBER 12 – SATURDAY
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams: Weill’s The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, starring Teresa Stratas, Astrid Varnay, Richard Cassilly, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by James Levine. From November 27, 1979. Click here at start time.
8:00 pm – Cleveland Orchestra on the Radio, Franz Welser-Möst conducting, Felicity Lott, soprano, Rodney Gilfrey, baritone, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus. Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pacem & Richard Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration & Four Last Songs. WCLV, 104.9 Ideastream or on the web.
DECEMBER 13 – SUNDAY
4:00 pm – Cleveland Orchestra on the Radio, Franz Welser-Möst, conducting. Haydn’s Symphony No. 73 in D, “La Chasse” & Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11, “The Year 1905”. WCLV, 104.9 Ideastream or on the web.
5:00 pm – Music From the Western Reserve: Daniel Shapiro, piano. All-Beethoven: Sonatas Opus 31, 78 & 101. Pre-recorded recital (no audience present). Click here at start time. Free.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams: John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles, starring Teresa Stratas, Håkan Hagegård, Gino Quilico, Graham Clark, Marilyn Horne, and Renée Fleming, conducted by James Levine. From January 10, 1992. Click here at start time..