A two-week calendar is published every Monday. Dates with no scheduled events are not listed.
SEPTEMBER 9 – WEDNESDAY
12:15 pm – Music Near the Market. Florence Mustric, organ. “Plain Brown Wrapper.” Beckerath organ, Trinity Lutheran Church, 2031 W. 30th St., Cleveland. Freewill offering.
6:30 pm – Canton Symphony. Summer Serenades. Canton Garden Center, 1615 Stadium Park Drive N.W., Canton.
7:30 pm – Cleveland Chamber Music Society, Joel Link, violin, Nathaniel Silberschlag, horn, and Dawoon Chung, piano. Gabriel Fauré’s Sonata for Piano and Violin in A, Op. 1; Reinhold Gliére’s Four Romances for Horn and Piano, Op. 35, Nos. 6, 7, 10 & 11; and Johannes Brahms’ Trio for Piano, Violin, and Horn in E-flat. Pre-concert talk with Eric Charnofsky at 6:30 p.m. Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland. Tickets available online.
SEPTEMBER 11 – FRIDAY
6:00 pm – Cleveland Museum of Art. Chamber Music in the Galleries: BlueWater Chamber Orchestra. Flute and Strings. Sean Gabriel & Linda White, flutes, Jessica Schmidt, violin, and Julie Myers King, cello. Works by Alessandro Scarlatti, J. C. Bach, Reinhold Glière, Maurice Ravel, Joseph Haydn, and Charles Koechlin. Donna and James Reid Gallery, Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland. Free.
7:30 pm – Cleveland Jazz Orchestra. Sinatra and Soul. Paul Ferguson, artistic director, and Lou Armagno & Evelyn Wright, vocals. Music Box Supper Club, 1148 Main Ave., Cleveland. Tickets available online.
SEPTEMBER 12 – SATURDAY
4:15 pm – Akron Symphonic Winds. Happy Birthday, America! at Kent Art in the Park Festival. Works by John Williams, John Phillip Sousa, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and more. Fred Fuller Park, 497 Middlebury Road, Kent. Free.
4:30 pm – Singers Companye. Back to Broadway. Samuel Gordon, conductor. An afternoon of classic & modern show tunes. First Methodist Church, 245 Portage Trail, Cuyahoga Falls. Freewill offering.
7:00 pm – Cleveland Repertory Orchestra. New Morning: Twenty-Five Years After September 11. Matthew Salvaggio, conductor, and Todd Kitchen, narrator. Charles Ives’ The Unanswered Question, Howard Hanson’s Elegy in Memory of Serge Koussevitzky, Joan Tower’s Made in America, and Joseph Schwantner’s New Morning for the World. Mandel Humanities Center, Cuyahoga Community College Eastern Campus, 4250 Richmond Road, Highland Hills. Freewill offering.
7:30 pm – The Cleveland Orchestra Recital Series. Lang Lang In Recital. Lang Lang, piano. Mozart’s Rondo in D major, K. 485; Beethoven’s Sonata No. 8, “Pathétique” & Sonata No. 31; Isaac Albéniz’s Selections from Suite española No. 1; Enrique Granados’s Quejas, o la Maja y el Ruiseñor from Goyescas; and Franz Liszt’s Consolation No. 2 & Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli. Mandel Concert Hall, Severance Music Center, 11001 Euclid Ave, Cleveland. Tickets available online.
7:30 pm – Oberlin Guest Recital. Carlos Bedoya, guitar, Kulas Recital Hall, 77 W. College St., Oberlin. Free.
SEPTEMBER 13 – SUNDAY
3:00 pm – Cleveland Cello Society. Documentary Film Screening: Strangers on the Earth. Cellist Dane Johansen talks about his experience making a pilgrimage along Spain’s Camino de Santiago with his cello. He will also perform select movements of Bach before the film is shown. LatinUS Theater, 2937 W. 25th St., Cleveland. Tickets available online.
3:00 pm – University of Akron Faculty Recital. Frank Ward, voice, and Jamie Wilding, composition. Baroque music for voice and harpsichord, including songs from the well-known vocal teaching anthology “Twenty-four Italian Songsand Arias.” Wilding will also perform works for solo harpsichord. Guzzetta Recital Hall, 157 University Ave., Akron. Free.
4:00 pm – CIM Insiders. Pianists Ralitsa Georgieva and Carolyn Gadiel Warner & Friends. Music by Fanny Mendelssohn, Gabriela Montero, Jennifer Conner, and others. Click the ticket link for the full list of participants & repertoire. Mixon Hall, Cleveland Institute of Music, 11021 East Blvd., Cleveland. Free, but tickets required.
4:30 pm – Oberlin Faculty Recital. Jonathan Moyer, organ. Works by Claude-Bénigne Balbastre, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, François Benoist, César Franck, Charles-Marie Widor, Gaston Litaize, and Maurice Duruflé. Finney Chapel, 90 N. Professor St., Oberlin. Free and live streamed.
7:30 pm – Oberlin Faculty Recital. Alexa Still, flute, and Hyunsoo Kim, piano. Erwin Schulhoff’s Flute Sonata, Gabriela Lena Frank’s Sueños de Chambi: Snapshots for an Andean Album, and Carl Vine’s Sonata for Flute and Piano. Stull Recital Hall, 77 W. College St., Oberlin. Free and live streamed.
SEPTEMBER 15 – TUESDAY
12:00 pm – Song Recital Project: Fictional Lieder. Jason Fuh, baritone, and Betty Meyers, piano. Songs and ballades by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann. Ames Family Atrium, Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland. Free.
7:30 pm – Cleveland Silent Film Festival. “East and West” (1923). Starring Molly Pico with live original music composed and performed by klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and silent film pianist Donald Sosin. The Cinematheque at the Cleveland Institute of Art, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Tickets available online.
SEPTEMBER 16 – WEDNESDAY
12:00 pm – Trinity Cathedral Brownbag Concerts. Joyce Yu, piano, and Minchae Kim, violin. Works by Leoš Janáček, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Manuel Ponce. Lunches welcome. Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Free.
12:00 pm – YSU Music at Noon. Opera Western Reserve. Preview of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, to be performed at Powers Auditorium on September 26. Butler Institute of American Art, 524 Wick Ave., Youngstown. Free.
7:00 pm – Cleveland Silent Film Festival. “3 Bad Men” (1926). The story follows three outlaws who inadvertently rescue a young woman and become her unlikely protectors after her father is killed. Pianist Jackie Warren performs an improvised score. Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland. Tickets available online.
SEPTEMBER 17 – THURSDAY
7:30 pm – The Cleveland Orchestra. Strauss & Shostakovich. Franz Welser-Möst, conductor, and Golda Schultz, soprano. Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs & Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8. Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, 11001 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Tickets available online.
7:30 pm – Cleveland Silent Film Festival. “The General” (1926). The story is based on actual events during the Civil War, in which Union soldiers commandeered a train called “The General.” Featuring a live score by theater organist Donnie Rankin. Grays Armory, 1234 Bolivar Road, Cleveland. Tickets available online.
SEPTEMBER 18 – FRIDAY
7:30 pm – Cleveland Silent Film Festival. “The Johnstown Flood” (1926). In 1889, the South Fork Dam above Johnstown, Pennsylvania, failed, killing 2,209 people in the deadliest flash flood in American history. Director Irving Cummings dramatized the event in the film starring George O’Brien. Rodney Sauer leads a quintet in a score created for the film. Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd. Tickets available online.
7:30 pm – Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble. Timothy Weiss, conductor, and the Oberlin Percussion Group. Chaya Czernowin’s Tris, Shulamit Ran’s Lyre of Orpheus, Harrison Birtwistle’s Cortege, and Brett Dean’s Dream Sequence. Warner Concert Hall, 77 W. College St., Oberlin. Free and live streamed.
SEPTEMBER 19 – SATURDAY
2:30 pm – Cleveland Silent Film Festival. “A Page of Madness” (1926). Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa in collaboration with artists of Japan’s experimental “School of New Perceptions,” the film draws on German Expressionism, Noh theater, and melodrama. Featuring an original score by James Praznik performed by a quintet from the No Exit New Music Ensemble. Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd. Tickets available online.
3:00 pm – Cuyahoga County Public Library. Have Music, Will Travel. Katheriine Calvey, flute. Works by Mozart, Debussy, Handel, Carl Nielsen, and more. Fairview Park Branch, 21255 Lorain Road, Fairview Park. Free.
7:30 pm – Cleveland Classical Guitar Society. 2026 Showcase Concert. Sam Hooper, guitar, and Ed Ridley, keyboard. Maltz Performing Arts Center, 1855 Ansel Road, Cleveland. Free.
7:30 pm – Arts Renaissance Tremont. UnchARTed Territory. Addison Frei, piano; Todd Coolman, bass; TJ Reddick, drums; Omar Lateef, trumpet; and Charles Pillow, saxophone/flute. Five world-class and diverse jazz musicians come together for an experimental evening. Pilgrim Congregational UCC, 2592 W. 14th St., Cleveland. Free.
7:30 pm – Les Délices. The Poet & the Prodigy. Debra Nagy, oboe; Shelby Yamin, violin; Rebecca Landell, viola da gamba & cello; and Adam Cockerham, theorbo & baroque guitar. Works by François Couperin, J.S. Bach, and Couperin arranged by de Visée Antoine Forqueray and G.P. Telemann. Treelawn Music Hall, 15335 Waterloo Road, Cleveland. Free.
7:30 pm – Oberlin Orchestra. Raphael Jiménez, conductor. Ethel Smyth’s Overture to The Wreckers, Calvin Ray Shawler’s Atlantic Procession, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, “Pathétique.” Finney Chapel, 90 N. Professor St., Oberlin. Free and live streamed.
SEPTEMBER 20 – SUNDAY
2:30 pm – Cleveland Silent Film Festival. “Beau Geste” (1926). The story centers on the bond among three English brothers whose lives are disrupted by the disappearance of a precious family heirloom. Silent film music specialist Rodney Sauer leads a quintet in a newly compiled score created for the film. Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland. Tickets available online.
3:00 pm – The Cleveland Orchestra. Strauss & Shostakovich. Franz Welser-Möst, conductor, and Golda Schultz, soprano. Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs & Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8. Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, 11001 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Tickets available online.
4:00 pm – Arts @ Holy Trinity. Astralis Chamber Ensemble. Seeun Baek, violin, Ksenia Kurenysheva, piano, and Angela Massey, flute. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 50 N. Prospect St., Akron. Free.
4:00 pm – Church of the Western Reserve Concert Series. Ruth Ann Scanzillo, cello, and Christopher Petit, piano & organ. Works by Florence Price, Gabriel Fauré, Camille Saint-Saëns, Lili Boulanger, Charles-Marie Widor, and Frédéric Chopin. Church of the Western Reserve, 30500 Fairmount Blvd., Cleveland. Freewill offering.
4:00 pm – St. Noel Concert Series. Clay and Jay Piano Duo. St. Noel Church, 35200 Chardon Road, Willoughby Hills. Free.