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by Daniel Hathaway

HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND: 

The schedule is packed.

On Saturday, Les Délices presents Arcadian Dreams (2 pm at Hudson Library), Klaus Mäkelä leads The Cleveland Orchestra and choruses in the last of three performances of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 (8 pm at Severance Music Center), No Exit New Music continues its new season with a triptych of concerts and a trio of world premieres (7 pm at SPACES), the Akron Symphony plays Charles Ives — pictured — and Gustav Holst (7:30 in E.J. Thomas Hall), Apollo’s Fire plays four of J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos (7:30 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Cleveland Heights), the Cleveland Philharmonic plays Liszt with Halida Dinova; The Cleveland Opera presents Puccini’s L’amico Fritz (7:30 at First Baptist, Shaker Hts., and Wit’s Folly plays early Iberian music (7:30 at St. Noel Church, Willoughby Hills).

On Sunday, stand-alone events include Cleveland Composers Guild (organ works at 3 pm in Morley Hall, Painesville), and Lakeland Civic Chorus (4 pm at Lakeland Community College, Kirtland). Repeated programs include the Cleveland Philharmonic (3 pm at CSU), Wit’s Folly (4 pm at Bath Church), The Cleveland Opera (4 pm at First Baptist, Shaker Hts.), Apollo’s Fire (5 pm at First Methodist Church, Akron) and Les Délices (7:30 in Harkness Chapel, CWRU).

For details of these and other upcoming events, go to our Concert Listings.

INTERESTING READS:

Writing for VAN Magazine, Hannah Edgar updates the situation at the Cleveland Institute of Music since the faculty voted to unionize, and reports on the effect the turmoil of the last year has had on student enrollment. Read her reporting here. (Note: the article is behind a paywall, but inexpensive subscriptions to the Berlin-based magazine are available).

Jeremy Denk on Charles Ives. In an essay this weekend in The New York Times, the pianist considers the thorny composer’s legacy on the 150th anniversary of his birth. Read At 150, Charles Ives Still Reflects the Darkness and Hope of America here. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

HAPPENING TODAY: 

CIM Museum Melodies, brings one-hour programs featuring pianists from the Cleveland Institute of Music to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Tonight at 7:30 at Severance Music Center, guest conductor Osmo Vänskä steps in for Franz Welser-Möst on The Cleveland Orchestra’s season openers, which include a rare performance of Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto featuring Frank Peter Zimmerman, Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1 (“Classical”), and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 (“Pathétique”).

Visit our Concert Listings for details of upcoming performances.

NEWS BRIEFS:

The October issue of the U.K.’s Gramophone magazine will feature Swedish violinist Johan Dalene, who won first prize in the Thomas and Evon Cooper International Piano Competition at Oberlin in July, 2017. Click here to preview the issue and read about his new album “paying tribute to virtuoso icons from the past.”

The Oberlin Conservatory has announced that “The 2025 Cooper International Competition for violinists will take place January 5 through 10. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND: On Friday, CIM Museum Melodies features pianists in one-hour recitals (12 Noon, Natural History Museum), Sky Creature performs (7 pm at Transformer Station) & experimental cellist Ian Maskin plays original works (7:30 at the Maltz).

On Saturday, Les Délices reprises The Highland Lassie (1:30 at Waterloo Arts Fest), pianist Brian Wilson plays Beethoven, Chopin & Frank Martin (7 pm at Federated Church), Sammy DeLeon y su Orquesta & Las Sirenas mariachi band mark Hispanic Heritage Month (7 pm at Severance Music Center) & Cleveland Classical Guitar Society presents a showcase with Colin Davin & Moises Borges (pictured, 7:30 at the Maltz).

On Sunday, “The ____ Experiment” (oboist Ava Wirth, saxophonist Andrew Hosler & percussionist Joseph Fox) performs new works (2 pm at Kaiser Gallery, Tremont), trumpeter Jack Sutte gives a faculty recital with pianist Craig Ketter (3 pm at Baldwin Wallace), upright bassist Beth Hiser & guitarist Rachel Roberts play music from the 50s and 60s (4 pm at Bath Church) & Cleveland Chamber Symphony with pianist Mark George plays a tribute to two deceased Northeast Ohio musical giants, H. Leslie Adams & Loris Chobanian (7 pm at Baldwin-Wallace).

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by Daniel Hathaway

HAPPENING TODAY: 

The Cleveland International Piano Competition’s Concert Truck makes an appearance at noon at Edgewater Beach bearing a baby grand and 2024 quarter-finalists Mirabelle Kajenjeri, 26 (France) & Zhu Wang, 27 (China). Bring a lawn chair and enjoy a free concert — which might include some Scarlatti (see the Almanac).

Ohio Light Opera presents a 2 pm matinee performance of The Arcadians in Freedlander Theatre at the College of Wooster, and Oberlin Piano Festival hosts a Guest Faculty Recital by Zhou Ting and Tianying Zhao in Clonick Hall.

For details of upcoming concerts, visit our Concert Listings page.

TODAY’S ALMANAC:

On this date in 1757, Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti (pictured above) died in Madrid. Son of composer Alessandro, Domenico spent most of his career in Spain, producing mainly keyboard works — including the 555 sonatas that have become popular opening works for many piano recitals. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

HAPPENING THIS  WEEKEND: 

On Saturday afternoon, the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute will culminate in a marathon participant chamber music concert (1:30-5 pm in the Conservatory’s Kulas Recital Hall & Orchestra Room), the Cleveland Clinic Concert Band will anticipate Independence Day with American classics (2 pm, Eastman Reading Garden, downtown Cleveland Public Library), and Ohio Light Opera stages Me and My Girl (2 pm in Freedlander Theatre at the College of Wooster.)

Events on Saturday evening include a screening of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark with John Williams’ live score played by Sarah Hicks & The Cleveland Orchestra (7 pm at Blossom), ChamberFest’s Closing Night (7:30 at the Maltz, pictured), Ohio Light Opera’s The Sound of Music (7:30 in Freedlander Theatre at the College of Wooster), and the Stow Symphony (7:30 in Tallmadge Bible Church).

Sunday’s agenda, a bit lighter, includes Ohio Light Opera’s Guys and Dolls (2 pm), a summer carillon concert by Davis Osburn (6 pm, St. Paul’s, Cleveland Hts.,) and a repeat of Saturday’s Cleveland  Orchestra at the Movies (7pm at Blossom).

For details, visit the Concert Listings page.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Piano Cleveland writes, “In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Cleveland International Piano Competition (CIPC), Piano Cleveland has placed six golden pianos in prominent — and sometimes unexpected — locations throughout the city. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

HAPPENING TODAY:

A 2 pm Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute Faculty Recital features Michael Lynn, flute, Catharina Meints, pardessus de viole, Rebecca Landell, viola da gamba & Lisa Crawford, harpsichord in music by Marin Marais, Louis Heudelinne & François Couperin in Kulas Recital Hall. Also at 2 pm, Ohio Light Opera presents Guys and Dolls in Freedlander Theatre at the College of Wooster.

And tonight at 7:30 in Harkness Chapel at Case, Cleveland Lute Fest continues its nightly series of recitals with a program of 16th Century Dances & music by S.L. Weiss performed by Robert Barto (pictured) with flutist Mara Winter, flute. For details, visit the Concert Listings page.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The Cleveland Orchestra continues its summer community engagement programming on Wednesday, June 26 at 7 pm with a free, outdoor performance as part of University Circle’s Wade Oval Wednesdays concert series. [Read more…]