Fri 4/12 @ 7:30PM
Sat 4/13 @ 7:30PM
Sun 4/14 @ 4PM
It seems like every small classical music ensemble takes on Antonio’s Vivaldi’s familiar early 18th-century violin concerti, The Four Seasons.
Cleveland’s adventurous baroque ensemble Les Delices is also doing so, but it’s re-thinking and re-arranging them. The seven-piece ensemble— flutist Joseph Monticello, bassoonist Clay Zeller-Townson, violinists Shelby Yamin and Julie Andrijeski, harpsichordist Mark Edwards, cellist and viol player Rebecca Landell, and the group’s founder and artistic director Debra Nagy on oboe — will perform a program called The Four Seasons Transformed, which it calls “a daring new spin” on the work.
With Monticello and Zeller-Townson making their Les Delices debuts, Autumn, Winter and Spring will be reconstructed with two violins, oboe, flute, bassoon, harpsichord, and viola da gamba playing parts originally written for solo violin. And Nagy has re-arranged Summer into a brand-new concerto created from works by 18th-century theatrical composer Jean-Philippe Rameau.
They’ll perform the program on Friday April 12 at Akron Civic Theatre’s Knight Stage; on Saturday April 13 at Disciples Christian Church in Cleveland Heights; and on Sunday April 14 at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church in Rocky River.
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Akron, OH 44308
3663 Mayfield Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH 44121
Rocky River, OH 44116