No Exit's Free Trinity Cathedral Concerts and the Rest of the Classical Music to Catch This Week

No Exit returns to Trinity Cathedral this week Credit: Wikipedia

We’ve assembled a varied menu of classical music events for this mid-March week. (Beware the Ides!)

– If you’re still working in an office, you can break up your evening commute on Wednesday with a free 5:30 pm Rush Hour Concert at Fairmount Presbyterian Church in Cleveland Heights featuring percussionist Ethan Strickland in “a program of invigorating new works.”

– Older new works — a retrospective of music by Greg D’Alessio — are the subject of No Exit’s next cycle of free concerts that begins at Trinity Cathedral on Thursday at 7 pm. The program will be repeated at 7 on Friday at SPACES, and Saturday at Praxis Fiber Workshop.

– Other multiple performances are on the agenda for The Cleveland Orchestra, who will play Leoš Janáček’s Suite from From the House of the Dead (arr. Jílek) and Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3 & Symphony No. 5 at Severance Music Center on Thursday at 7:30 and Friday at 8. Franz Welser-Möst conducts, and tickets are available online.

– CityMusic Cleveland’s free March chamber music concert on Friday at 7 at Praxis Fiber Workshop offers an oddity: Gustav Mahler’s Piano Quartet (he wrote chamber music?), along with works by Valerie Coleman and Mozart featuring clarinetist Daniel Gilbert.

– Also on Friday, Carl Topilow and Cleveland Pops Orchestra & Chorus honor past and present Oscar Nominees and winners in The Envelope Please (7:30 at Severance Music Center, tickets available online), and the International Contemporary Ensemble presents “Composing While Black, Volume I” in Oberlin’s Finney Chapel, tickets available online.

– Three concerts to promote on the weekend begin with The Resonance Project’s “Lenten Reflections” with pianist Irwin Shung (works by Sergei Rachmaninov and César Franck accompanied by narration and visuals, Saturday at 7:30. Forest Hill Church, tickets available online).

– On Sunday at 2, Suburban Symphony Orchestra joins Western Reserve Chorale and West Shore Chorale to celebrate its 70th Anniversary with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at Severance Music Center. Domenico Boyagian, conducts. Tickets are available online.

– An hour later, Cleveland Composers Guild presents the phenomenal young Poiesis Quartet in premieres of works by Guild members Margi Griebling-Haigh, Geoffrey Peterson, Ryan Charles Ramer, Sebastian Birch, Jeremy Piper, Lorenzo Salvagni, and Cara Hao. (Free at 3 pm in Drinko Hall at CSU).

– Our list ends on Tuesday with a recital by Vincent Dubois, one of the four titular organists of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. It’s part of the Helen D. Schubert Concerts at St. John’s Cathedral, but work on the organs there has moved Dubois’ free program of French masterworks and improvisations to Trinity Cathedral.

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

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