Here are our classical music recommendations for this coming weekend, selected from our master concert listings calendar.
On Friday evening at 7:30 the Cleveland Museum of Art will host the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, conducted by Timothy Weiss, with Jennifer Koh, violin, Alexandra Armantrading, soprano, Rodrick Dixon, tenor, Timothy LeFebvre, baritone, and the Oberlin Percussion Group. The program will feature Emma O’Halloran’s meditation for metal pipes, Olly Wilson’s Of Visions and Truth, Jesse Jones’ Ennead, and Courtney Bryan’s Syzygy in Gartner Auditorium, 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland.
On Saturday afternoon at 3 pm, Roger Kalia will lead the Canton Symphony Orchestra with narrator Averi Ellis in Clarice Assad’s Baião N’Blues, Benjamin Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, a.k.a. Variations on a Theme by Henry Purcell, Wojciech Kilar’s Orawa, and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9 in Umstattd Hall, Zimmermann Symphony Center, 2331 17th St. N.W., Canton.
On Saturday evening at 7:30, the Fryderyk Chopin Institute of Ohio will present pianist Kevin Kenner and the Callisto Quartet in the composer’s Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22, the Rondo à la Krakowiak, Op. 14, and the Piano Concerto No. 1 in e, Op. 11 in Harkness Chapel at Case Western Reserve University, 11200 Bellflower Road, Cleveland.
On Sunday afternoon at the same hour, Erik Ochesner will lead the Youngstown Symphony in Richard Wagner’s Siegfried’s Death and Funeral March (Gotterdammerung), Jean Sibelius’Night Ride and Sunrise, John Williams’ Olympic Fanfare, and Hector Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique in Stambaugh Auditorium, 1000 5th Ave., Youngstown.
For details of these and other classical events, visit the ClevelandClassical.comConcert Listings.
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