Sun 10/6 @ 3:30PM
The Heights Chamber Orchestra is a 37-year-old ensemble that includes both professional and amateur musicians, many of them graduates of Cleveland Heights-University Heights High School and participants in the school’s outstanding music programs. It may not be the Cleveland Orchestra but it offers local music lovers the chance to hear some classical pieces performed by people who are doing so just for the love of it.
This month, they’ll be welcoming guest conductor Carl Topilow, who’s well known in the community for his 24 years leading the Cleveland Pops Orchestra and 37 years as conductor and director of the Cleveland Institute of Music’s Orchestral Music program (he retired last year).
He’ll lead the orchestra in playing Johannes Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture, Antonin Dvorak’s Romance in F Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Valse-Scherzo in C Major for Violin and Orchestra, Dvorak’s Rondo for Cello ad Orchestra in G Minor in a world premiere arrangement for clarinet and orchestra, and Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5 in D Major (“Reformation”). Shannon Lee, a master’s student at CIM, is the violin soloist, and Mason Sangster, a junior at CIM and a student of Topilow’s, is featured on clarinet.
The concert takes place at Church of the Gesu in University Heights. It’s free and open to the public.
University Heights, OH 44118