WCLV Arts Calendar
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Akron Art Museum
At the Akron Art Museum On exhibit through January 25th, you can see Ordinary Miracles: Robert Glenn Ketchum’s Photographs of Cuyahoga Valley National Park. ALso on exhibit is Myrlande Constant, one of Haiti’s most prominent contemporary artists. She works in the tradition of drapo (literally meaning “flags”), a style of art created with fabric, embroidery, sequins, and beads depicting symbols, stories, and spirits from the Vodou religion.
Akron Symphony
The Akron Symphony Orchestra will begin its 72nd season with Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, sometimes called The Titan’, on Saturday evening, September 20th at Akron's E. J. Thomas Hall. That concert will also feature Angela Cheng performing Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto.
Apollo's Fire
Apollo's Fire and Jeannette Sorrell will open the season with a lightly-staged concert performance of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. There'll be five performances at five locations around Northeast Ohio, from Akron to Painesville Oct. 3rd through 12th.
Baldwin Wallace University
The Baldwin Wallace Symphony directed by Douglas Droste will perform a concert on Friday evening, September 26th. The program will include Tchaikovsky' Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture as well as works by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Bernstein and a world premiere by BW faculty composer Carolyn Borcherding.
The concert will take place in Gamble Auditorium of the Kulas Musical Arts Building. The Orchestra will also perform Mahler's Symphony No. 1 on Friday evening, October 31st.
Baldwin Wallace voice majors will move to Cleveland's Playhouse square and the Helen for Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas on October 9th, 10th and 11th.
On stage, Baldwin Wallace will have five performances of Mark Twain's Is He Dead? Wednesday through Sunday, October 1st through 5th.
Benjamin Franklin Community Gardens
In Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood, the Ben Franklin Community Garden Music Series features an eclectic lineup of professional Northeast Ohio artists performing on the first and third Saturdays at 6PM, through September. On September 20th, you'll hear Village Bicycle with Psych-pop
BlueWater Chamber Orchstra
Ohio Contemporary Ballet will collaborate with the BlueWater Chamber Orchestra in a special concert on Saturday evening, October 4th at Lakewood Civic Auditorium. The program will feature the dancers of Ohio Contemporary Ballet performing with the orchestra in music of Elgar, Albinoni and Handel. The Orchestra will also perform Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 5.
Bop Stop
Coming to the Bop Stop, On Thursday the 16th you can hear Outlab: Experiments in Improvised Music; Brent Kirby's 10X3 Songwriter/Band. On the 19th, Olivia van Goor's Quartet will be followed by a jam session.
Broadway in Akron
The Broadway in Akron series will bring The Book of Mormon to Akron's E. J. Thomas Hall on Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings, September 30th and October 1st.
Canton Ballet
Canton Ballet Will perform Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf on Saturday afternoon, October 11th, with the Canton Symphony Orchestra. The performance will take place in Canton's Umstattd Hall.
Canton Museum of Art
Current exhibits at the Canton Museum of Art include Impressions En Plein Air: A Juried Exhibition of the Ohio Plein Air Society on exhibit until October 26th. At the same time, you'll be able to see
Plein Air From the CMA Collection.
Cleveland Ballet
The Cleveland Ballet will present choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett's Dracula with music by J. Mark Scearce on Friday and Saturday, October 24th and 25th at Playhouse Square. The program will also include her Code of Silence, set to music by Arvo Paert. Costumes are welcome, and an afterparty will be held October 25th at the Hermit Club.
Cleveland Cinematheque
Cleveland Cinematheque will show the Academy Award nominated 2003 animated feature The Triplets of Belleville. There's a new 4K restoration of The Island Closest to Heavenas well as Bruce Robinson’s 1987 cult classic Withnail & I, and French New Wave director Luc Moullet’s documentary Origins of a Meal.
Cleveland Chamber Choir
The Cleveland Chamber Choir will present a new series called In Four Voices, featuring unaccompanied music for four voices. The selections include William Byrd's Mass for Four Voices, English madrigals, and pieces by Cleveland-area composer Dr. Judith Eckelmeyer. The first concert in the series will take place on
Tuesday evening, September 23rd at Ohio Living Breckenridge Village on Ridge Road in Willoughby.
Cleveland Chamber Collective
The next concert by the Cleveland Chamber Collective will take place on Sunday afternoon, September 21st at Disciples Christian Church in Cleveland Heights. The theme of the concert is discovery. Each piece is a kind of experiment in perspective and figuring out how things fit, or can be developed. There'll be music by Caroline Shaw, Ellen Ruth Harrison, John Adams, Linthicum Blackhorse, Ty Alan Emerson and Eric Charnofsky.
Cleveland Chamber Symphony
The Cleveland Chamber Symphony's next concert is NEOSonic: Going Solo, performing “small works” including Richard Stout's piece for string quartet on Sunday afternoon, September 21st at the Baldwin Wallace Gamble Auditorium. Cleveland Chamber Symphony dot org
Cleveland Classical Guitar Society
The new season of the Cleveland Classical Guitar Society will begin with a Showcase Concert on Saturday evening, September 20th at the Maltz Performing Arts Center featuring guitarists Nolan Juaire, Christopher McDonald and Max Shaffer, and jazz vocalist Vanessa Rubin with guitarist Perry Hughes.
Cleveland Dance Movement
Cleveland Dance Movement, in partnership with DanceCleveland, Djapo Cultural Arts, Inlet Dance Theatre, and Ohio Contemporary Ballet, presents Cleveland's Place in America's Dance Legacy. This celebration of Cleveland’s dance history will feature master classes, discussions, and workshops led by important figures in the dance world and community. This two-day event will take place at The Pivot Center for Art, Dance and Expression on West 25th Street in Cleveland.
Cleveland Institute of Music
The Cleveland Institute of Music will celebrate the reopening of Kulas Hall with a Day of Music on Saturday, October 4th. The event will feature live performances, refreshments, and activities for all ages.
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra
The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra's new season begins September 27th with special guest Terrell Stafford for a program called Totally Trumpet at the Maltz Performing Arts Center
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art and FRONT International present New Work: Amanda D. King, Charmaine Spencer, Erykah Townsend, Antwoine Washington, the capstone exhibition of the FRONT 2022 Art Futures Fellows. The exhibition is on view at the CMA’s Transformer Station from October 2nd through December 27th,
Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra new season at Mandel Concert Hall will begin with concerts September 26th through 28th when Music Director Franz Welser-Moest leads the Orchestr and Cleveland Orchestra Chorus in the United States Premiere of Berne Richard Deutsch's Urworte, a Cleveland Orchestra co-commission, as well as Richard Strauss's Salome’s Dance from Salome and Maurice Ravel's Boléro.
On October 2nd and 5th, Music Director Franz Welser-Moest leads the concert that includes Arthur Honegger's Symphony No. 3, Symphonie liturgique, and Gustav Mahler's Song of the Earth, with
tenor Limmie Pulliam and baritone Iurii Samoilov.
Cleveland Silent Film Festival and Colloquium
The Cleveland Silent Film Festival and Colloquium will present its fall lineup from through September 27th, including four films at the Cleveland Museum of Art, as well as the fall festival’s closing screening at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Films will include The Phantom of the Opera (1925), starring Lon Chaney, Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925), directed by Ernst Lubitsch, a double bill of René Clair comedies, Buster Keaton’s 1925 comedy Go West, and the final screening of the September festival the 1926 Faust
First Congregational Church of Akron
First Congregational Church of Akron's Music@AkronFCC Concert Series presents Concert for Peace, featuring Northeast Ohio songwriters and poets, keynote speaker Farhad Sethna, and a performance by Jim Ballard and the Strangs on Sunday evening, September 21st.
Great Lakes Theater
Great Lakes Theater will open its new season with Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George, running September 26th through October 12th in the Hanna Theater in Playhouse Square. 216-241-6000
Heights Arts
Heights Arts will present a free Gallery Concert with the Amani Strings, the collaborative project of Afro-Colombian cellist Carolina Borja and Ismail Douglas, a multi-instrumentalist specializing in the kora, guitar, and various traditional instruments from around the world. They blend global musical influences with rich string textures. The performance will take place at the Heights Arts Gallery on Lee ROad on Thursday evening, October 9th.
Heights Chamber Orchestra
The season-opening concert by the Heights Chamber Orchestra will take place on Sunday afternoon, October 12th, at Fiarmoung Presyterian Church in Cleveland Heights October 12th. The program will include the Chamber Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich and Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 9.
LatinUs Theater Company
LatinUs Theater Company presents the world premiere of La Versión Infinita (The Infinite Version) by acclaimed playwright Daniela Contreras, Maria Del Olmo and Carolina Sturla. The play will run September 26th through October 12 at the Pivot Center's LatinUs Black Box Theater on West 25th Street near Clark.
Les Delices
Les Délices will present three free performances of O'er the Hills and Far Away in September. The ensemble will be at the Cleveland Public Library Main Branch on Saturday, afternoon, September13th, Monday evening September 15th at Lorain County Community College and Tuesday evening, September 16th at the
Happy Days Lodge at Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
Lorain County Community College
At Lorain County Community College, the new musical spoof Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song, starring members of the New York cast, will make a performance stop at Stocker Center's Hoke Theatre on September 20th
Maltz Museum
The Maltz Museum will presenting El Sueno Americano - The American Dream, an exhibition on the migrant experience at the U.S./Mexico border. The exhibit will feature works by photographer Tom Kiefer and artist Elizabeth Z. Pineda. It will open September 18th and continue through February 26th.
Massilon Museum
Massilon Museum''s Rhythms Concert Series will feature Cleveland-based jazz vocalist Hayden Grove on Thursday evening, September 18th.
Music at Akron FCC
Akron’s newest concert series will begin with a night of music, poetry, and purpose. The inaugural Music@AkronFCC Concert Series will open with Concert for Peace, presented by Indivisible Akron on Sunday evening, September 21st, at First Congregational Church of Akron. That concert will be followed on Saturday, September 27th, by PRESS PLAY: A Symphony of the Screen - an evening of music from film, anime, and video games. 330-253-5109
Music at Bath
The Music at Bath concert series will begin on Sunday afternoon, September 28th with the Zerbo Brothers,
performing West African music on traditional and modern instruments. And on Saturday afternoon, October 11th, singer and songwriter Kahrin will perform original material; she'll be joined by cellist Trevor Kazarian.
Near West Theater
Near West Theater will open its season with Next to Normal, a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning rock musical. The show will run for two weekends, September 18th through 28th in Near West Theatre’s Black Box. Near West Theatre is on Detroit Avenue in the Gordon Square Arts District. 216-961-6391
Nightlight Cinema
The Nightlight is a non-profit arthouse cinema, located in Downtown Akron. It has been making indie films available since 2014. The schedule includes Familiar Touch, Daniela Forever, the 1996 Japanese musical Shall We Dance, Granite Rapids and Evil Puddle.
Oberlin College Allen Memorial Art Museum
The Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College will present Picturing Paris: Monet and the Modern City. The exhibit will feature Monet’s early cityscapes of Paris as it emerges as a modern metropolis. The show is on view through December 23
Ohio Contemporary Ballet
Ohio Contemporary Ballet will collaborate with the BlueWater Chamber Orchestra in a special concert on Saturday evening, October 4th at Lakewood Civic Auditorium. The program will feature the dancers of Ohio Contemporary Ballet performing with the orchestra in music of Elgar, Albinoni and Handel. The Orchestra will also perform Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 5.
Players Guild Theater
The Players Guild Theatre at Kent State University, Stark will present Legally Blonde - the Musical through September 28th.
Radio on the Lake Theater
Radio on the Lake Theatre, Northeast Ohio's only professional theater company exclusively dedicated to the audio arts, announces the start of its new live radio play series. The Audio Gallery Series at Negative Space will spotlight classic and contemporary audio drama with actors and sound effects artists bringing great stories to life. On October 30th it's War of the Worlds and on December 4th, A Tale of Two Cities.
All performances will be at the Negative Space Art Gallery
Resonance Project
The Resonance Project will present A Circle of Her Own, a concert that presents the modern premiere of the newly discovered Keyboard Concerto in E major by Marianne Martinez, as well as the orchestral piece called La Tempesta. The program will also include music by her contemporaries, C. P. E Bach and Mozart. The concert will be given at Forest Hill Church Presbyterian on Monticello Boulevard in Cleveland Heights on Friday evening, October 3rd.
Rocky River Chamber Music Society
Rocky River Chamber Music Society will begin its 67th season on Monday evening, September 15th, with a concert by the Verona String Quartet, string quartet in residence at the Oberlin Conservatory. The program will include music by Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, and jazz tunes from the twenties. Concerts by the Rocky River Chamber Music Society take place at West Shore Unitarian Church on Hilliard Boulevard in Rocky River.
Stars in the Classics
On Saturday, September 27, some of the rising stars of classical music and dance in Northeast Ohio
will come together for A Classical Cabaret in Collinwood, a concert of passion and rhythms that
will take place at 4 PM at Praxis Fiber Workshop and Galleryon Waterloo Road in Cleveland.
The program will feature music by American and Latin composers including Paul Schoenfield, Astor Piazzolla,
Alberto Ginastera, and Leonard Bernstein. as well as two world premiere performances, including a new suite inspired by Euclid Beach Park composer Chris Neiner and original choreography by Antonio Morillo.
Trinity Lutheran Church
The Wednesday Noontime Music Near the Market continues at Trinity Lutheran Church on Lorain Road at West 30th Street. On September 17th and 24th, Robert Myers plays Toccatas and Fugues.
Tuesday Musical Akron
Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin will be the first performer in Akron's Tuesday Musical concert series on October 21st at E. J. Thomas Hall. He'll perform Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata, Robert Schumann's Waldszenen and Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit.
Weathervane Playhouse
Weathervane Playhouse will present the Ohio Community Theatre premiere of ‘Come From Away’, based on the true story, of the occasion of the diversion of 38 airplanes were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland on September 11th. The show will run through October 12th.
Wit's Follly
In 1784, there was a party which featured music performed by Haydn, Dittersdorf, Vanhal, and Mozart. Wit's Folly will recreate that program on Saturday evening, November 1st at Praxis Fiber Workshop on Waterloo Road and on Sunday afternoon, November 2nt at Bath Church., in a program called Matched Wits.
Workshop Plyers
Workshop Players of Amherst will open the ensemble's 77th season with the musical The Spitfire Grill, on stage through September 21st.