Fri 1/21-Sat 1/22
CityMusic Cleveland’s 2021-22 season, dubbed “The Justice Equality, Hope” chamber music series, continues this week with two performances of a program called “Tales and Scenes.”
The program progresses from Johann Sebastian Bach, with his 1738 Keyboard Concerto in F Minor, to early 20th-century French composer Maurice Ravel’s “Ma Mère l’Oye,” to pieces by two of Ravel’s Spanish contemporaries and friends who were influenced by him, Joaquín Turina (Escena Andaluza) and Manuel de Falla (“Fire Dance” from El Amor Brujo). It winds up with a world premiere commissioned by CityMusic Cleveland called Pantheon, by noted contemporary composer and MIT faculty member Elena Ruehr.
As with CityMusic’s other programs this session, it will be performed by a small ensemble, including violinists Mari Sato and Masha Andreini, violist Yael Senamaud-Cohen, cellist Nataliya Pshenycha, bassist Tracy TOwell and pianist Elizabeth DeMio.
The program will be performed at the Shrine Church of St Stanislaus in Slavic Village on Friday, January 21 and St. Jerome Catholic Church on Saturday, January 22. As always, CityMusic Cleveland programs are free with a suggested donation of $15.