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 March 8.
MARCH 1 – MONDAY
12:00 pm – Lunchtime with The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, music director. Beethoven: Overture to Coriolan & String Quartet No. 15 in a. WCLV 104.9 Ideastream & on the web.
7:30 pm – Les Délices Salonera: Jewish Diaspora. Recorder virtuoso Daphna Mor explores Sephardic song and Jewish liturgical poetry while viola da gamba player Elizabeth Weinfield highlights the contributions of 17th century converso composer Leonora Duarte. Additional guests to be announced. Click here at start time. Free but $10 donation suggested.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams (Celebrating Women’s History Month): Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, starring Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, and Gabriel Bacquier, conducted by Nicola Rescigno. Production by John Dexter. From January 11, 1979. Click here at start time.
MARCH 2 – TUESDAY
12:00 pm – Lunchtime with The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, music director. Johann Strauss Jr: Waltz from Tales from the Vienna Woods & Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider). WCLV 104.9 Ideastream & on the web.
3:00 pm – Dallas Symphony, Fabio Luisi, conducting, Rachel Willis-Sorensen, soprano. Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in Klaus Simon’s 1920 chamber ensemble version. Click here at start time. Tickets: $10, view until May 31.
5:00 pm – Music for Food Virtual Concert Re-broadcast on The Violin Channel, with CIM faculty members Jaime Laredo, Lynne Ramsey, Antonio Pompa Baldi, Sharon Robinson and student musicians. Click here at start time. Donations welcome.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams (Celebrating Women’s History Month): Verdi’s Falstaff, starring Mirella Freni, Barbara Bonney, Marilyn Horne, Susan Graham, Paul Plishka, Frank Lopardo, and Bruno Pola, conducted by James Levine. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From October 10, 1992. Click here at start time.
MARCH 3 – WEDNESDAY
12:00 pm – Lunchtime with The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, music director. Brahms: Tragic Overture & Symphony No. 2 in D. WCLV 104.9 Ideastream & on the web.
7:00 pm – Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor, Metropolitan Opera soloist & Musical America’s 2019 Vocalist of the Year. Presented by Youngstown State University’s Cliffe College of Creative Arts & Communication & Donald P. Pipino Performing Arts Series. Cosstanzo will present a master class on March 4 at 4:00 pm. Online only. Click here at start time. Free.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams (Celebrating Women’s History Month): Wagner’s Die Walküre, starring Hildegard Behrens, Jessye Norman, Christa Ludwig, Gary Lakes, James Morris, and Kurt Moll, conducted by James Levine. Production by Otto Schenk. From April 8, 1989. Click here at start time.
MARCH 4 – THURSDAY
12:00 pm – Lunchtime with The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, music director. Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 3, Richard Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-flat (Richard King) & Sibelius: Lemminkäinen in Tuonela from Legends. WCLV 104.9 Ideastream & on the web.
4:00 pm – Master class with Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor, Metropolitan Opera soloist & Musical America’s 2019 Vocalist of the Year. Presented by Youngstown State University’s Cliffe College of Creative Arts & Communication & Donald P. Pipino Performing Arts Series. Online only. Click here at start time. Free.
5:00 pm – The Violin Channel’s Vanguard Concerts: The Dover Quartet. Beethoven’s Quartet No. 16 in F, Op. 135 & Lento from Dvořák’s Quartet No. 12 in F, “American.” Click here at start time. Free.
[RESCHEDULED TO APRIL 20] 7:30 pm – Tuesday Musical: Edgar Meyer, double bass virtuoso. Program includes J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 & Meyer’s own work-in-progress for unaccompanied bass. E.J. Thomas Hall, University of Akron, 198 Hill St. Tickets available online.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams (Celebrating Women’s History Month): Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, starring Golda Schultz, Kathryn Lewek, Charles Castronovo, Markus Werba, and René Pape, conducted by James Levine. Production by Julie Taymor. From October 14, 2017. Click here at start time.
10:00 pm – Cal Performances: Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord. J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, filmed at the Bach Archive in Leipzig. Click here at start time. Tickets: $15.
MARCH 5 – FRIDAY
12:00 pm – Lunchtime with The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, music director. Haydn: Symphony No. 67 in F, Piano Concerto No. 11 in D (Emanuel Ax) & Minuet & Finale from Symphony No. 100 in G (“Military”). WCLV 104.9 Ideastream & on the web.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams (Celebrating Women’s History Month): Britten’s Peter Grimes, starring Patricia Racette, Anthony Dean Griffey, and Anthony Michaels-Moore, conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles. Production by John Doyle. From March 15, 2008. Click here at start time.
8:00 pm – Washington Performing Arts: Home Delivery Plus with Steven Banks, saxophone, Xak Bjerken, piano & the Omer Quartet. Mozart’s Oboe Quartet, Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, Banks’ As I am & Gift of the Spirit, Carlos Simon’s Hear Them & a neqw work by Saad Haddad. Click here at start time. Free.
MARCH 6 – SATURDAY
7:00 pm – Oberlin Stage Left: Oberlin Conservatory Large Ensembles, Raphael Jiménez & Timothy Weiss, conducting. Courtney Bryan’s Sanctum, Kenneth Amis’s Trumpeters’ Lullaby, Jonathan Bingham’s Untitled & Dvořák’s Serenade for Winds. Pre-recorded for broadcast at this time. Click here to view and follow link to download complete program. Free.
7:30 pm – 92nd St. Y: Ana Vidovic, classical guitar. Music by J.S. Bach. Torroba, Giuliani, Barrios & others. Click here at start time. Tickets: $20.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams (Celebrating Women’s History Month): Dvořák’s Rusalka, starring Renée Fleming, Emily Magee, Dolora Zajick, Piotr Beczała, and John Relyea, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Production by Otto Schenk. From February 8, 2014. Click here at start time.
8:00 pm – Cleveland Orchestra on the Radio, Franz Welser-Möst, conductor, Radu Lupu, piano. Harrison Birtwistle: Night’s Black Bird & Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, Op. 15 & Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat, Op. 73 ‘Emperor.’ WCLV, 104.9 Ideastream or on the web.
MARCH 7 – SUNDAY
2:00 pm – A Far Cry chamber orchestra (Boston), Josquin’s Ave Christe immolate, Jessie Montgomery’s Source Code, Matana Roberts’ Borderlands, Caroline Shaw’s Litany of the Displaced & Beethoven’s Heiliger Dankgesang from Op. 132. Click here at start time. Tickets available online.
2:00 pm – VOCES8 Live from London, with pianist Joanna MacGregor. Florence Price’s spirituals, Margaret Bond’s Troubled Water, Mary Lou Williams’ jazz solos from Zodiac Suite. Eleanor Alberga’s work based on Pushkin’s It’s time, my friend, it’s time & Nina Simone’s Blackbird, Little Girl Blue & Good Bait, a melding of Bach, Liszt & jazz. Click here at start time. Tickets: $15.
3:00 pm – Akron Chapter AGO Student Recital by Nicholas Stackpole & Daniel Colaner, organ. J.S. Bach’s Prelude & Fugue in e, Mendelssohn’s Prelude No. 2 Franck’s Cantabile & Robert Hobby’s When in our Music God is glorified (Stackpole). J.S. Bach’s Prelude & Fugue in G, BWV 541, James Woodman’s Barnstable & Wellfleet (Sonata in Sea: Cape Cod) & Leo Sowerby’s Pageant (Colaner). Streamed from Fairlawn Lutheran Church. Free.
3:00 pm – Silver Hall Series from the Maltz Performing Arts Center at CWRU: 88bit, the alter ego of composer/pianist Rob Kovacs. Note-for-note piano arrangements of Nintendo soundtracks. Click here at start time. Free.
4:00 pm – Cleveland Orchestra on the Radio, Franz Welser-Möst, conducting, Samuel Ramey, bass, Marcus Haddock, tenor, Simon Keenlyside, baritone, Miriam Gauci, soprano, Yvonne Naef, mezzo-soprano, Hao Jiang Tian, bass Rebecca Ringle, mezzo-soprano, Joseph Holmes, tenor, Eric Owens, bass, Malia Bendi Merad, soprano. Verdi’s Don Carlo. WCLV, 104.9 Ideastream or on the web.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams (Celebrating Women’s History Month): Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, starring Leontyne Price, Giuseppe Giacomini, Leo Nucci, and Bonaldo Giaiotti, conducted by James Levine. Production by John Dexter. From March 24, 1984. Click here at start time.
MARCH 8 – MONDAY
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams (Verismo Passions): Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, starring Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo, Pablo Elvira, and Renato Capecchi, conducted by James Levine. Production by Gian Carlo Menotti. From March 29, 1980. Click here at start time.
8:00 pm – International Women’s Day Mini-Concert: Michael Lu, piano. Piano Masterpieces by Women from Four Centuries and Four Continents: Juliane Reichardt’s Sonata in G, Emahoy Tegué-Maryam Guèbrou’s Golgotha, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s März (Das Jahr), Jennifer Higdon’s Notes of Gratitude, Florence Beatrice Price’s Fantasie nègre no. 4 (Final Version from 1932), Remembrance & Cotton Dance & Teresa Carreño’s Highland. Click here at start time. Free. Q&A session by donation. MARCH 9 – TUESDAY
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams (Verismo Passions): Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Marcelo Álvarez, and George Gagnidze; Patricia Racette, Marcelo Álvarez, George Gagnidze, and Lucas Meachem, conducted by Fabio Luisi. Production by Sir David McVicar. From April 25, 2015. Click here at start tim e.
7:30 pm – Oberlin Faculty Recital:, Sibbi Bernhardsson, violin, Dmitry Kouzov, cello & Angela Cheng, piano. Brahms’ Violin Sonata in d, Op. 108, No. 3, Debussy’s Cello Sonata & Beethoven’s Piano Trio in B-flat, Op. 97, No. 7, “Archduke.” Livestreamed from Warner Concert Hall. Free.
MARCH 10 – WEDNESDAY
12:00 pm – Trinity Virtual Brownbag Concerts: Matthew Jones, tenor. Online performance (no audience present) streamed from Trinity Cathedral. Click here at start time. Freewill offering.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams (Verismo Passions): Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur, starring Anna Netrebko, Anita Rachvelishvili, Piotr Beczała, and Ambrogio Maestri, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Production by Sir David McVicar. From January 12, 2019. Click here at start time.
7:30 pm – Oberlin Faculty Recital: Verona String Quartet, Jonathan Ong & Dorothy Ro, violins, Abigail Rojansky, viola, Jonathan Dormand, cello. Dvořák’s Echo of Songs (Cypresses), Karol Szymanowski’s Quartet No. 2, Op. 56 (1927) & Beethoven’s Quartet in c-sharp, Op. 131. Livestreamed from Kulas Recital Hall. Free.
MARCH 11 – THURSDAY
7:00 pm – Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, conducting. In Focus Episode 6: Rodion Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite for Strings & Percussion. Online only. View on the Orchestra’s Adella streaming service.
7:00 pm – Local 4 Music Fund: Tuning in with the Athena String Quartet, Leah Goor-Burtnett & Rachel Englander, violins, Laura Shuster, viola, Julie Myers-King, cello. Dvořák’s Quartet No. 12 (‘American’), Haydn’s Quartet Op. 64 No. 5 in D (‘Lark’) & Puccini’s I Crisantemi. Streamed live from Pilgrim UCC. Click here at start time. Free, donations welcome.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams (Verismo Passions): Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini, starring Eva- Maria Westbroek, Marcello Giordani, Robert Brubaker, and Mark Delavan, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Production by Piero Faggioni. From March 16, 2013. Click here at start time.
MARCH 12 – FRIDAY
Posting today – Cleveland Chamber Music Society: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Front Row National, Anne-Marie McDermott, piano, with Bella Hrstova, Ida Kavafian & Sean Lee, violins, Paul Neubauer, viola, Gar Hoffman & Mihai Marica, cellos, Timothy Cobb, double bass & Tara Helen O’Connor, flute. Mozart’s Concerto in d for flute, piano & strings, K. 466 (arr. Czerny) & Smetana’s Trio in g, Op. 15. Available on demand through March 16. Free.
7:00 pm – CIM Orchestra Concert, Carlos Kalmar, guest conductor. Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte for String Orchestra (2014), 7:00 pm – CIM Orchestra Concert, Carlos Kalmar, guest conductor. Shaw’s Entr’acte for String Orchestra (2014), Rodion Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite (1967) & Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 in E-flat, K. 543. Online only. Click here to connect. Free.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams (Verismo Passions): Giordano’s Fedora, starring Mirella Freni, Ainhoa Arteta, Plácido Domingo, Dwayne Croft, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, conducted by Roberto Abbado. Production by Beppe De Tomasi. From April 26, 1997. Click here at start time.
8:00 pm – Jazz at the Maltz PAC: Moises Borges, acoustic-electric guitar (born in Brazil), presented by Jim Wadsworth Productions and the Maltz Performing Arts Center at CWRU. Program to be announced. Online only. Click here at start time. Free, but donations welcome.
MARCH 13 – SATURDAY
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams (Verismo Passions): Giordano’s Andrea Chénier, starring Maria Guleghina, Wendy White, Stephanie Blythe, Luciano Pavarotti, and Juan Pons, conducted by James Levine. Production by Nicolas Joël. From October 15, 1996. Click here at start time.
MARCH 14 – SUNDAY
5:00 pm – Music From the Western Reserve: Catching up with Zsolt Bognár, (The recital by violinist Michael Ferri and Bognár previously announced for this date, will be rescheduled early in June). Online only. Free.
7:30 pm – Met Opera Nightly Streams (Verismo Passions): Puccini’s Tosca, starring Sonya Yoncheva, Vittorio Grigolo, Željko Lučić, and Patrick Carfizzi, conducted by Emmanuel Villaume. Production by Sir David McVicar. From January 27, 2018. Click here at start time.