Sat 3/1 @ 8PM
Sun 3/2 @ 4PM
Cleveland’s professional choral group the Cleveland Chamber Choir is presenting a program “Synagogue and Salon: The Hebrew Psalms and Madrigals of Salamone Rossi” with two performances this weekend.
It showcases the work of Jewish late Renaissance composer Rossi (1570-1630) from Mantua, Italia: both the sacred music he wrote to be performed in synagogues and the secular music he composed for the court, where he shared renown with his contemporary Claudio Monteverdi. In addition, the program will include new Renaissance-style dances choreographed by Assistant Conductor Anna O’Connell and violinist Phaik Tzhi Chua.
The choir will be joined by Jewish youth choir HaZamir Cleveland and accompanied by violinists Phaik Tzhi Chua and Abigail Hakel-Garcia, cellist Jane Leggiero, organist Natalie Mealey, harpist Anna O’Connell and theorbo player Adrian Murillo.
Saturday evening’s concert takes place at Congregation Mishkan Or in Beachwood (at the location of the former The Temple-Tifereth Israel); Sunday’s is at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church in Rocky River. Oberlin Conservatory Professor of Musicology Charles Edward McGuire will give a pre-concert talk 45 minutes before each performance.
Tickets are “pay what you wish.” Reserve them here.