Thu 3/12 @ 7:30PM
Fri 3/13 @ 7:30PM
Sat 3/14 @ 8PM
Sun 3/15 @ 4PM
City Music Cleveland’s mission is to bring high-quality classical music out to neighborhoods to be enjoyed by those who might not otherwise have access to it. Its upcoming program will be performed in four different locations form Lakewood on the west all the way to Mentor on the east.
Called “Guardian Angels,” it features music by composers from the fringes of Europe. Norwegian Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt: Suite No. 1 is the oldest and most familiar piece on the program dating back to 1876. The program also includes Danish composer’s Carl Nielsen’s 1911 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra and Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s 2009 Symphony No. 4 (“Los Angeles”).
The program’s guest conductor and soloist make it even more international. Acclaimed violinist Adele Anthony, who performs the solo role in the concerto, is Australia, and conductor Joaquin Valdepeñas, who is also a world-renowned clarinetist, hails from Canada.
The concert will be performed Thu 3/12 at the Mentor Performing Arts Center; Fri 3/13 at Lakewood Congregational Church; Sat 3/14 at the Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus in Slavic Village and Sun 3/15 at Christ Episcopal Church in Shaker Heights.
It is, of course, entirely free.
Photo by Maria Ciriello