by Daniel Hathaway
WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS;
On Friday evening at 7:30, concertmaster Alan Choo takes Apollo’s Fire to Louis XIV’s Palace of Versailles for works written for the court of the Sun King by Lully, Marais, and Rameau. The second and third of four performances take place on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 pm at St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Hts., and the fourth on Sunday at 4 at Rocky River Presbyterian Church..
On Friday at 7:30 at Severance Music Center, James Feddeck conducts The Cleveland Orchestra in Beethoven Lives Upstairs. The program, designed especially for ages 7-12, features a lively exchange of letters between young Christoph and his uncle about the “madman” who has moved into the upstairs apartment of Christoph’s Vienna home.
On Friday evening at 8, Oberlin Opera Theater raises the curtain on two one-act operas by John Musto, directed by Scott Skiba and conducted by Timothy Weiss. Later the Same Evening is set in a single evening in 1932 Manhattan and brings to life the characters and scenes from five Edward Hopper paintings. Bastianello wraps itself around an amusing series of encounters derived from several versions of an old Italian folk tale. Repeated on Saturday at 8 & Sunday at 2.
On Saturday at 2:30 in Warner Concert hall, the Oberlin Conservatory will present a memorial tribute for the late voice professor Daune Mahy, who taught there for 39 years. Details here.
On Saturday evening at 7:30, Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša, a frequent guest, returns to the Mandel Concert Hall podium at Severance Music Center to lead The Cleveland Orchestra in Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 3, Bohuslav Martinů’s Symphony No. 3, and Vítĕzslava Kaprálová’s Military Sinfonietta. Repeated Sunday at 3.
On Saturday at 7:30 at the Maltz Performing Arts Center, Vietnamese-born classical guitarist An Tran, now based in Chicago, makes his Cleveland debut on the Cleveland Classical Society’s International Series. His program includes world premieres from his new recording, Illumina.
And on Sunday at 4:30 in Finney Chapel, organist James O’Donnell will play the annual David Boe Memorial Recital honoring the ninth Dean of the Conservatory, who taught at Oberlin from 1962 to 2008.
For details of these and other performances, visit our Concert Listings.
WEEKEND ALMANAC:
On March 6, 1967, Hungarian ethnomusicologist, educator and composer Zoltán Kodály passed away in Budapest. [Read More…]
