Cleveland Pops Does Decades of Delight and the Rest of the Classical Music to Catch This Week

Credit: Photo by Roger Mastroianni, Courtesy of The Cleveland Orchestra

Here’s a short list of classical music events scheduled to take place between the end of the winter season and the beginning of summer festivals next week.

MAY 28 – WEDNESDAY

6:00 pm – Heights Arts presents an open rehearsal by the Omni Quartet of Beethoven String Quartets to be performed on Sunday. Brief Q&A session to follow. Heights Arts, 2175 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights. RSVP online and Pay-what-you-can.

7:00 pm – No Exit plays new music from The Collective, an international consortium of composers, featuring works by Agata Zubel, Mathew Rosenblum, Douglas Knehans, Spiros Mazis, Amy Kaplan, Constantine Koukias, Edward Smalldone, and Timothy Beyer. Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art. Repeated at 7 pm on May 30 (at The Bop Stop) and May 31 (at Heights Arts). Free.

7:30 pm – For its summer concerts, Apollo’s Fire revives ¡HISPANIA! — a Voyage from Spain to the Americas. Directed from the harpsichord by Jeannette Sorrell and featuring Jeremías García, flamenco guitar, the program includes music by Diego Ortiz, Gaspar Sanz, and Santiago de Murcia, plus Sephardic ballads from the Jewish communities of Spain and Argentina. Harkness Chapel, 11200 Bellflower Road, Cleveland. Tickets available online.

MAY 31 – SATURDAY

7:30 pm – Cleveland Pops Orchestra presents Decades of Delight, hits from the Great American Songbook conducted by Carl Topilow, with Capathia Jenkins, vocals, and the Cleveland Pops Chorus. Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, 11001 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Tickets available online.

JUNE 1 – SUNDAY

3:00 pm – Jimmie A. Parker leads the Euclid Symphony Orchestra in a summer pops concert featuring big band music. Shore Cultural Centre, 291 E. 222nd St., Euclid. Tickets $10 at the door and $8 online.

3:00 pm – Heights Arts Close Encounters presents the Omni Quartet (Amy Lee & Alicia Koelz, violins, Joanna Patterson Zakany, viola, and Tanya Ell, cello) in Beethoven’s String Quartets No. 8 in e & No. 12 in E-flat. Barrie Carriage House, 1 Herrick Mews, Cleveland Heights. Tickets available online.

5:00 pm – The Resonance Project presents Songs of Nature. Baroque instrumentalists join West African drummer and vocalist Assane M’Baye for a program combining Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto in g, “Summer,” with Senegalese folk song. Also on the playlist: Davide Perez’s Sinfonía, “La tempestad del Mar,” and Jean-Féry Rebel’s Les Élémens. Forest Hill Church, 3031 Monticello Blvd., Cleveland Heights. Pay-what-you-can, tickets available online.

7:00 pm – Opus 216: Symphony at Sunset. Pack a picnic and enjoy family-friendly summer chamber music concerts, presented weekly by OPUS 216. Voinovich Bicentennial Park (northwest corner), 800 E. 9th St. Pier, Cleveland. Free.

For details of these and other classical events, visit the ClevelandClassical.com Concert Listings.

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