MAY 15 – FRIDAY
Tonight at 7:30, CityMusic Chamber Orchestra continues its final peripatetic series of the season at the Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus. Jeannette Sorrell conducts Mozart’s Magic Flute Overture and Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, and Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Violin and Piano features violinist Diana Cohen, violin, and pianist Roman Rabinovich. Repeated on Saturday at 7:30 in St. Noel Church in Willoughby Hills and Sunday at 2:30 in Our Lady of Angels Church.
Also at 7:30, Erik Ochsner leads the Youngstown Symphony in Modest Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina Prelude: Dawn on the Moskva River (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov), Anna Thorvaldsdóttir’s ARCHORA, Felix Mendelssohn’s Calm Sea & Prosperous Voyage, and Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4, “The Inextinguishable,” in Stambaugh Auditorium.
MAY 16 – SATURDAY
As the central event in its Opera and Humanities Festival, The Cleveland Orchestra presents Beethoven’s Fidelio, Franz Welser-Möst, conducting, with Sara Jakubiak & Ashley Emerson, sopranos, David Butt Philip & Owen McCausland, tenors, Tomasz Konieczny & Dashon Burton, bass-baritones, Martin Summer, bass, and The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus (7:30 in Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center).
Also at 7:30 pm – The Singers’ Club of Cleveland presents “And All Nature Did Sing!” Chris Clark, artistic director, and Ben Malkevitch, piano, at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church in Rocky River (repeated on Sunday at 3 at Lakeland Community College in Kirtland.)
MAY 17 – SUNDAY
This afternoon at 3, Arts Renaissance Tremont honors the late Chris Haff Paluck, founder of the ART series, with a tribute concert by the Amici String Quartet, guitarist Jason Vieaux, and The Cleveland Orchestra Bass Quartet at Pilgrim Congregational Church UCC.
Also this afternoon at 3, Master Singers Chorale presents a 25th Anniversary Concert led by Marc Weagraff, with pianist Eric Charnofsky, soprano Sabina Balsamo, mezzo-soprano Kimberly Lauritsen, tenor; Ethan Burck, tenor, and baritone Aidan Eddy, baritone, including the world premiere of Charnofsky’s Everyone Sang, at First United Methodist Church in Cuyahoga Falls. Free.
For details of these and other classical music events, please visit the ClevelandClassical.com concert listings.
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