Fri 10/24 @ 7:30PM
Sat 10/25 @ 7PM
The Cleveland Chamber Choir is an organization of professional vocalists who perform music ranging from the Middle Ages to pieces by contemporary composers, specializing in less frequently performed works.
Its upcoming pair of concerts include one by a composer people will know and another by one they likely won’t. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s 1915 “All Night Vigil” is an a cappella piece set to a text from the Russian Orthodox liturgy. Reena Esmail’s “A Winter Breviary” isa three-part piece, set to texts by poet Rebecca Gaye Howell that depict the movement from winter to spring. Like the Rachmaninoff, the piece has religious root: the music is based on Carnatic melodic modes.
The choir will perform the music at candlelight concerts at Trinity Cathedral in downtown Cleveland on Friday October 24, and at Oberlin’s Fairchild Chapel on Saturday October 25. Oberlin’s Charles Edward McGuire will give a talk 45 minutes before each concert.
Tickets are “pay what you want.” Go here to reserve them. A portion of donations will benefit Re:Source Cleveland (formerly Refugee Response) which provides assistance to those who have fled their homelands to come live in Cleveland.