Fri 9/4 @ 8:30-10:30PM
Classical Revolution was founded 20 years ago in San Francisco to take classical music out of concert halls into communities to make it accessible to non-traditional audiences. It spread like wildfire with 40 chapters around the world, including one in Cleveland where it established a beachhead at the Happy Dog in Gordon Square.
This week it’s at another venue in nearby Ohio City: Visible Voice Books, which has started to present music on a regular basis now that it has a dedicated theater space at the back of its new building. The performers include violinist Edwin Huizinga who was involved with the first Classical Revolution in San Franisco and later helped to start the Toronto branch. He currently lives in Cleveland. His fellow musicians for this evening are cellist Rebecca Landell who is on the faculty at Oberlin Conservatory.
Violinist Edwin Huizinga has been involved with Classical Revolution since the very beginning in 2006 in San Francisco. He also later helped to found the Toronto chapter. Now he is thrilled to be strengthening the movement in his current home of Cleveland, Ohio.
Huizinga will be joined by fellow Oberlin Conservatory professor Rebecca Landell on the cello and the Mecham Duo, a pair of 20-year-old twin violinists, Aaron and Boaz, who are currently studying with studying with Huizinga at Oberlin Conservatory.
The four musicians — faculty and students — will perform music by Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn as well as folk tunes. It’s casual and you can tap your toes, they tell us. The concert is free.
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