Fri 11/4 @ 7:30PM
ChamberFest Cleveland takes place early each summer, with concerts spread out over several weeks in different area venues.
Now it’s hosting a one-off in the same spirit, called Echoes from the Valley: Global Folk Songs in a Chamber Setting. Clarinetist Franklin Cohen, Cleveland Orchestra Principal Clarinetist Emeritus and one of ChamberFest’s co-founders; soprano Amanda Powell, familiar to area audiences from her many performances with Apollo’s Fire; and internationally noted pianist and Professor of Piano at Oberlin Conservatory Peter Takács have put together a diverse evening of music.
It includes pieces by Paquito D’Rivera, Maurice Ravel, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, and Alexander Scriabin, along with arrangements of international folk songs by Youngstown State University’s Dave Morgan and Cleveland composer/director of jazz studies at Case Western Reserve University Paul Ferguson. Among them are Appalachian, Greek and Arabic tunes.
The concert takes place at the Cultural Arts Center at Disciples Church (3663 Mayfield Road, Cleveland Heights). General admission is $25; $5 for students.
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