Alfred Hitchcock's 'Blackmail' With Live Score at the Cleveland Public Library and the Rest of the Classical Music to Catch This Week

See Blackmail with a live score this weekend at CPL Credit: Courtesy Photo

Here are nine events to explore in the classical music calendar this week.

– On Friday, the Cleveland Cello Society presents its annual, multi-cello extravaganza, i Cellisti, this time featuring Jonathan Dormand and the Bowling Green State U. Cello Ensemble. Featured: the premiere of Rollo Dilworth’s Three Traditional Spirituals (7 pm at St, Paul’s Episcopal Church, Cleveland Hts., tickets here.)

– This week, Jeannette Sorrell will conduct Apollo’s Fire in four performances of Johann Sebastian Bach’s monumental Mass in B Minor. (Don’t ask why a Lutheran Cantor would write a Catholic mass setting he had no reason to perform.) Catch local performances on Friday at 7:30 (Trinity Cathedral), Saturday at 4 (St. Christopher Parish in Rocky River), and next Tuesday at 7:30 (again at Trinity Cathedral). Tickets available online.

– On Saturday, Cleveland Silent Film Festival presents Alfred Hitchcock’s 1929 BLACKMAIL with a live compilation score performed by The Cleveland Photoplayers, making their debut under director Eric Charnofsky (4:30 in the Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium, Main Cleveland Public Library). It’s free.

On Sunday, you can choose among four events.

– Clayton Stephenson will be the featured artist on the Tri-C Classical Piano Series in music by Franz Schubert, Harold Arlen (Keith Jarrett’s arrangement of Over the Rainbow), Isaac Albéniz, and Igor Stravinsky — Trois mouvements de Petrouchka (2 pm at Metropolitan Campus Auditorium). It’s free, but tickets are required — register online.

– The Sords Quintet — Andrew Sords and Mari Sato, violins, Lynne Ramsey, viola, Madeleine Kabat, cello, & Elizabeth DeMio, piano — will play works by Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, George Frideric Handel arr. by Halvorsen, and Robert Schumann on the B. Neil Davis Artist Series (4 pm, West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church in Rocky River.) Freewill offering.

– Also on Sunday, the Kent Keyboard Series will present “Five Composers and a Pianist,” featuring Donna Weng Friedman at the keyboard. The playlist: Beata Moon’s Prelude, Stefania de Kenessey’s Microvids, Niloufar Nourbakhsh’s HbeaRt, Kim D. Sherman’s Quiet Poems & Four Moods, and William Hirtz’s The Wizard of Oz Fantasy for Four Hands (with Donna Lee, piano). A panel discussion with the composers and an audience Q&A will follow. (5 pm in Ludwig Recital Hall, Kent State University.) Tickets available online.

– Also on Sunday, Oberlin Artist Recital Series will host the Martha Redbone Roots Project, with Martha Redbone, vocals & percussion, Aaron Whitby, piano, Charlie Burnham, violin & Fred Cash, Jr., bass (7:30 in Finney Chapel). Tickets available online.

– On Monday, the Rocky River Chamber Music Society will present North Coast Winds — Kimberly Zaleski, flute, Danna Sundet, oboe, Ben Chen, clarinet, Arleigh Savage, bassoon & Emily Shelley, horn — in music by Valerie Coleman, Gunther Schuller, Darius Milhaud, Elliot Carter, William Grant Still, George Gershwin, and Paquito de Rivera. (7:30 at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church. Admission is free and you can watch the live stream here.)

– Then you can end the week with some classical Jewish tunes. On Tuesday, violinist Itzhak Perlman will join Hankus Netsky, saxophone / piano, Andy Statman, clarinet / mandolin, Michael Alpert, vocals / violin, Lorin Sklamberg, vocals / accordion, Judy Bressler, vocals / percussion, Frank London, trumpet & the Klezmer Conservatory Band for traditional Klezmer music (7 pm in Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center.) Tickets available online.

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

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