Fri 3/24 @ 7PM
The Cleveland Cello Society annual i Cellisti! concert/fundraiser is an extravaganza indeed, with a yet-to-be-determined number of cellos on the premises (St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights). In fact, you can bring YOUR cello and participate.
Don’t worry if you’re not as good as the featured solo performer. Probably no one there will be either. That’s because it’s Cleveland Orchestra Principal Cellist Mark Kosower, who will play Hans Werner Henze’s Serenade and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s Lamentations, Black/Folk Song Suite. Following those works, he’ll join forces with six more Cleveland-area cellist for an ensemble transcription of French composer Edouard Lalo’s 1876 Cello Concerto.
But the grand finale — now this is where you can come in — invites any cellist of any age, students and amateurs welcome, to join in performing Randall Thompson’s Alleluia. There’s no additional charge to play; if you bought a ticket and brought your cello, you’re in. The more the merrier, they say, since the goal of the Cleveland Cello Society is to grow appreciation for cello music.
And all proceeds will benefit its scholarship fund to train the next generation’s Mark Kosower. To buy tickets and/or register to play in the finale, go to clevelandcello.com.