CONCERT LISTINGS FOR JANUARY 10-23

A two-week calendar is published every Tuesday.
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JANUARY 10 – MONDAY

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Radio Broadcast: Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music, Eric Charnofsky, curator (remotely hosted without commentary throughout January). Program includes Harry Burleigh: From the Southland (piano), Donald Erb: The Devil’s Quickstep (flute, piccolo, harmonica, slide whistle, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, cello, harp, keyboard, percussion), Joseph Marx: songs for soprano and piano, Maurice Duruflé: Suite for organ, Gunther Schuller: Piano Trio, Hamilton Harty: An Irish Symphony & Thomas Tallis: vocal quintets. WRUW, Case Western Reserve University. Click here to listen to the internet feed.

JANUARY 11 – TUESDAY

12:00 pm – Online concert — Tuesday Noon at the Covenant: Christopher Jenkins, viola & Christa Rakich, organ. Rakich’s 11 Variations on Salzburg (2014), Adolphus Hailstork’s 3 Meditations, William Grant Still’s Elegy & Paul Hindemith’s Meditation (1938) & Trauermusik (1936, arr. Heribert Breuer, 2012). Click here to view detailed program [pdf].. Live streamed only from the Church of the Covenant in University Circle. Free. Click here for link.

JANUARY 12 – WEDNESDAY

12:15 pm – Dana School of Music — Music at Noon: Faculty concert by Kivie Cahn-Lipman, cello. Works to be announced. Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown State University, 524 Wick Ave. Free.

7:00 pm – Fine Arts Association Faculty Artist Recital Series: Matthew Saunders, trombone. Saunders’ Twenty Variations for Trombone. Fine Arts Association, 38660 Mentor Ave. Willoughby. Click here for tickets.

JANUARY 13 – THURSDAY

7:30 pm – Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, conducting. Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 (“Linz”), Bernd Richard Deutsch’s Intensity (2019-2020), & Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8. Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, 11001 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. Tickets available online.

JANUARY 14 – FRIDAY

12:15 pm – McGaffin Carillon Concert & Live Stream: George Leggiero, carillionneur. Music old and new including an 18th century prelude for carillon, a 20th century dance, a music box, and the modern Beatles classic Let it Be. Free Parking in the lot in front of the tower on Euclid Avenue & on Bellflower Rd. behind the tower, or tune in to the live stream. McGaffin Tower, 11205 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Free.

JANUARY 15 – SATURDAY

1:00 pm – MET Opera Saturday Broadcast: Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Daniele Rustioni, conducting, with Ryan McKinny (Figaro), Lucy Crowe (Susanna), Golda Schultz (Countess Almaviva), Adam Plachetka (Count Almaviva), Isabel Leonard (Cherubino), Elizabeth Bishop (Marcellina) & Maurizio Muraro (Dr. Bartolo). WCLV, 104.9 FM & online.

JANUARY 16 – SUNDAY

3:00 pm – Music Settlement Live Stream: Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Concert. Vocal and instrumental performers will include faculty members, students, and guest artists. A variety of readings and sacred and secular songs of hope and faith, featuring music by African American composers. Bop Stop, 2920 Detroit Avenue in Ohio City, Cleveland. Free, but donations welcome (click here ). Click here for live stream.

4:00 pm – Youngstown Symphony Orchestra, Miriam Burns, conducting, Stephen Tavani, violin. Bartók’s Roumanian Folk Dances, Brahms’ Violin Concerto & Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A. Ford Family Recital Hall, DeYor Center, Federal Plaza, Youngstown. Tickets available online.

[Postponed to Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 7:00 pm.] – 42nd Annual Cleveland Orchestra Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Concert, Vinay Parameswaran, conducting, with Jacqueline Echols, soprano & the Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Chorus, Dr. William Henry Caldwell, director. Music by Dolores White, Mary D. Watkins, Carlos Simon, Brian Raphael Nabors, William Grant Still, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor & traditional Spirituals. Note: This concert will be broadcast live on 90.3 WCPN, WCLV Classical 104.9, and online. The previously announced live video stream will be replaced with a re-broadcast of the 2018 Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration concert available for free on Adella from January 17 through February 28.. Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, 11001 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. Free tickets will be made available online on a date TBA.

JANUARY 17 – MONDAY

ON-DEMAND: Apollo’s Fire Playlist of Music in Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Click here to access six videos chosen by Cleveland’s Baroque Orchestra to celebrate MLK Day 2022. Free.

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Radio Broadcast: Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music, Eric Charnofsky, curator (remotely hosted without commentary throughout January). Program includes Jacques Ibert’s Concertino da Camera (alto saxophone & orchestra), John Tavener’s Nipson (countertenor and viol consort), Payton McDonald’s Busy Little Bees (super marimba), Sergei Rachmaninov’s O, Cease thy Singing, Maiden Fair (arr. for theremin), Dalit Warshaw’s Responses (orchestra), Roy Harris’s Eleventh Symphony & Michael Nyman’s String Quartet No. 2. WRUW, Case Western Reserve University. Click here to listen to the internet feed.

JANUARY 18 – TUESDAY

[POSTPONED to January 25 due to storm] 12:00 pm – Online concert — Tuesday Noon at the Covenant: Jonathan Moyer, organ. the complete Nedêlní Hudba (Sunday Music) by Czech composer Petr Eben (1929-2007). Live streamed only from the Church of the Covenant in University Circle. Free. Click here for link.

JANUARY 20 – THURSDAY

Les Délices: The Highland Lassie, music from 18th century Scotland, Elena Mullins, soprano, Julie Andrijeski & Allison Monroe, violins, Daniel Swenberg, lute, English guitar & cittern, Debra Nagy, oboe, Rebecca Reed, gamba & cello & Mark Edwards, harpsichord. This program of Scots songs and reels from 17th & 18th century sources crosses boundaries from folk to art music and from the alehouse to the salon. Premiering in time for Burns Day (January 25), soprano Elena Mullins sings tales of love and loss including Barbara Allen and Robert Burns’ famous A red, red rose. Online only, available for 30 days after premiere. Click here for tickets and link.

[Postponed due to COVID] 3:30 pm – Third Culture Ensemble: Songs From the Heartland, featuring the Escher Quartet with TCE Young Artists. Rhiannon Giddens’ At the Purchaser’s Options, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Selections from 5 Fantasiestücke, Op. 5, Dvořák’s Selections from String Quartet No. 12, Op. 86 (“American”) & Mendelssohn’s Octet, Op. 20. Akron Public Library, 60 S. High St., downtown Akron. Free.

JANUARY 21 – FRIDAY

7:00 pm – CityMusic Cleveland, Tales and Scenes. Johann Sebastian Bach’s Piano Concerto in F minor, Maurice Ravel’s Ma Mère l’Oye, Joaquín Turina’s Escena Andaluza, Manuel de Falla’s “Fire Dance” from El Amor Brujo, and Elena Ruehr’s World Premiere (commissioned by CityMusic Cleveland) Shrine Church of St Stanislaus, 3649 E 65th St, Cleveland, OH 44105. Free.

JANUARY 22 – SATURDAY

7:00 pm – CityMusic Cleveland, Tales and Scenes. Johann Sebastian Bach’s Piano Concerto in F minor, Maurice Ravel’s Ma Mère l’Oye, Joaquín Turina’s Escena Andaluza, Manuel de Falla’s “Fire Dance” from El Amor Brujo, and Elena Ruehr’s World Premiere (commissioned by CityMusic Cleveland). St Jerome Catholic Church, 15000 Lakeshore Blvd, Cleveland, OH 44110. Free.

8:00 pm – Cleveland POPS Orchestra, Carl Topilow, conducting. All That Jazz with trumpeter & vocalist Byron Stripling. Mandel Hall at Severance, 11001 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. Tickets available online.