This week's classical music highlights include pianocentric performances, the 50th anniversary of a famous pipe organ, and a "black box" opera with a wacky plot.
- The final trio of concerts in The Cleveland Orchestra's Beethoven Piano Cycle bring a mentor and his student to the Severance Music Center Stage. On Friday at 7:30, Yunchan Lim, youngest winner of the Van Cliburn Competition in 2023, will solo in the Fifth Concerto, preceded by his New England Conservatory mentor, Minsoo Sohn, who will do the honors in Beethoven's Concerto No. 1. The program will be repeated on Saturday at 8 pm and Sunday at 3 pm.
- On Sunday at 2 pm, the Tri-C Classical Piano Series will present Chelsea Guo in a program of music by Frédéric Chopin, Pauline Viardot, Gabriel Fauré, and Maurice Ravel at Tri-C Metro Auditorium. It's free, but tickets are required.
- And on Tuesday at 7:30, Tuesday Musical will host pianist Simone Dinnerstein in Akron's E.J. Thomas Hall in a program of music by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Philip Lasser, J.S. Bach (his 15 Three-Part Inventions) and Keith Jarrett.
- FIfty years ago, in November, 1974, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music inaugurated a monumental new organ in Warner Concert Hall. Built by Flentrop Orgelbouw in Zaandam, the Netherlands, the instrument returned to the principles of organ building in Holland and North Germany during the golden age of the organ in the mid-18th century.
Oberin has planned a weekend of festivities that include a faculty recital by Jonathan Moyer and Christa Rakich on Friday at 7:30 (J.S. Bach's German Organ Mass) a current students recital on Saturday at 11 am, and an alumni recital on Saturday at 4:30 pm. All events will be live streamed as well as free to attend.
And that wacky Opera? On Saturday at 7 pm in Playhouse Square's Westfield Studio Theater, CIM Opera Theater will stage Emmanuel Chabrier's L'étoile, repeated on Sunday at 3. Stage director J.J. Hudson describes the show as "an incredibly charming work and unabashedly silly." Read an interview here.
For details of these and other classical events, visit the ClevelandClassical.com Concert Listings.
Subscribe to Cleveland Scene newsletters.
Follow us: Apple News | Google News | NewsBreak | Reddit | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | Or sign up for our RSS Feed