WCLV Arts Calendar
If your organization is planning an event you would like us to consider adding to the WCLV Arts Calendar, submit detailed information to John Simna via email.
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 season on Saturday evening, October 18th, at E. J. Thomas Hall. The opening concert will include Stravinsky’s The Firebird. The orchestra will also perform music by Danny Elfman and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Apollo's Fire
Apollo’s Fire and Artistic Director Jeannette Sorrell premiere a new program based on Mozart's Requiem, but one reflecting today’s society as well. Jeannette Sorrell interweaves the movements of Mozart’s unfinished Requiem with selections from related spiritual works by three living Black composers. There are two performances, at St. Bernard Catholic Church in Akron on Friday evening, November 7th, and on Saturday evening, November 8th at Severance Music Center in Cleveland.
Baldwin Wallace University
The Baldwin Wallace Symphony will perform Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1 on Friday evening, October 31st.
Baldwin Wallace University will present a Burrell Observatory open house and lecture, “Seeing the Invisible” by Doctor Annika Peter of The Ohio State University on Saturday evening, October 25.
Bop Stop
Coming to the Bop Stop, on Thursday evening, October 16th, trombonist Natalie Cressman will be in town.
Brass Band of the Western Reserve
The Brass Band of the Western Reserve will begin its season on Saturday evening, October 18th, with a concert called No Tricks, Just Treats at the Medina Performing Arts Center.
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.
Church of the Covenant
The Church of the Covenant in University Circle is presenting a weekly series of Tuesday Noon Organ Concerts. The Oberlin String Quartet will perform on October 28th, and organist Owen Metz on November 4th.
In addition, on Sunday afternoon, October 26th the Church of the Covenant will present a concert of sacred music for baritone and organ featuring Oberlin professor Timothy Lefebvre and organist Jonathan Moyer.
CityMusic Cleveland
CItyMusic Cleveland will perform Chickasaw American composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate latest work for orchestra, Ko'koom'fena: Our Grandmother, commissioned by CityMusc Cleveland at four locations from Thursday, October 16th through Sunday, October 19th. Our Grandmother honors grandmothers and the wisdom they pass down through generations. The program also includes William Frederick McKay’s Tlingit, Samuel Barber’s Knoxville Summer of 1915, and Erich Korngold’s Suite from Much Ado About Nothing.
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 Chamber Music Society
Cleveland Chamber Music Society will present the Belcea Quartet at Disciples Christian Church in Cleveland Heights, with works on Tuesday evening, October 21st. The Quartet will have music by Britten, Mozart, and Webern on that program.
Cleveland Cinematheque
Cleveland Cinematheque in the Peter B. Lewis Theater, they’ve added a screening of the new documentary The Librarians, which focuses on recent book bans sweeping the US. Other new films include Sierra Falconer’s feature debut Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake), and Bhutanese lama and filmmaker Khyentse Norbu’s Hema Hema: Sing Me A Song While I Wait. There's also a new 4K restoration of Ardak Amirkulov’s hypnotic epic The Fall of Otrar. The Body’s Night series will continue with Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void shown from a 35mm print. And they Architectural Affect series continues with Wim Wenders’ award-winning Perfect Days, which will be followed by a Film Club discussion lead by film scholar Linda Ehrlich.
Cleveland Chamber Choir
The Cleveland Chamber Choir will begin its Fall season with two performances of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Vespers - All Night Vigil on Friday and Saturday evenings, October 24th and 25th at Trinity Cathedral in Downtown Cleveland and Fairchild Chapel at Oberlin College.
Cleveland Composers Guild
On Friday Evening, October 24, the ensemble Opus 216 will perform music of the Cleveland Composers Guild at the Cleveland Museum of Art in the Ames Family Atrium. Violinist and director Ariel Clayton Karas leads the ensemble in music by Inna Onofrei, Matthew C. Saunders, Lorenzo Salvagni, Stephen Stanziano, Ryan Charles Ramer, Jeffrey Quick, Jeremy Piper, William F. Rayer, and Chris Neiner.
Cleveland Institute of Music
At CIM's newly-renovated Kulas Hall, the Opera Theater Department will present the double-bill of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica on Friday evening, November 7th and Sunday afternoon, November 9th.
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 through December 27th,
Cleveland Orchestra
Music Director Franz Welser-Moest will lead the Cleveland Orchestra, Chorus and soloists in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in four performances, October 23rd through 26th. The program will also include the tone poem Tapiola by Sibelius.
The following week, October 30th through November 2nd, pianist Garrick Ohlsson will join Franz Welser-Moest and the Orchestra in a program that will include Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 as well as Tyler Taylor's Permission and Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 3.
And on Wednesday evening, October 29th at Severance Music Center, pianist Beatrice Rana will give a recital that will include Selections from Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet, the second book of Etudes by Claude Debussy, a suite from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker and Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 6
Cleveland Philharmonic
Dean Buck will lead the Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra in a program of music for the Halloween season on Sunday afternoon, October 18th. The concert will include such favorites as The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Night on Bald Mountain and Danse Macabre.
Cleveland Pops Orchestra
On Saturday evening, October 18th, the Cleveland Pops Orchestra will begin its new season with When the Saints Go Marching Home, featuring jazz trumpeter Byron Stripling. That concert takes place at Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center.
Cleveland Repertory Orchestra
The Cleveland Repertory Orchestra's first concert of the season is called Spiritual Landscapes, and will feature music of Adolphus Hailstork, Florence Price and Antonin Dvorak. The concert will take place on Saturday evening, November 8th at Federated Church on Bell Street in Chagrin Falls. The concert is free, but ticket reservations are requested in advance.
Cloverleaf Center for the Performing Arts
Cloverleaf Center for the Performing Arts in Seville will present the Cleveland Celtic Ensemble on Saturday evening, October 25th in a program called Ethereal Sounds. The Cleveland Celtic Ensemble blends Scottish and Irish bagpipes, whistle, flute, fiddle, harp, and dance to create its own Celtic style. 419-853-6016
Cuyahoga Community College
The Music Department at Tri-C's Western will present a concert on Saturday afternoon, October 25th, when the Tri-Concert Band and Chorale will be perform at Westlake United Church of Christ.
Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead)
Cleveland Public Theater, Teatro Publico de Cleveland and Dia de Muertos Ohio will present the 21st Annual Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) Festival in Cleveland’s Detroit Shoreway neighborhood on Saturday, November 1 from 11am to 10pm, to take place at Cleveland Public Theatre, 6205 Detroit Avenue, in the Gordon Square Arts District.
Dobama Theater
At Dobama Theater, the Cleveland premiere of Witch has been extended through November 2nd.
Fairlawn Lutheran Church Concert Series
On Sunday afternoon, October 19th, The University of Akron Choirs will appear as part of the Fairlawn Lutheran Church Parish Arts concert series under the direction of Visiting Professor Dr. T. J. Harper. The program is entitled Without Fear, and will include works by Susan LaBarr, Ēriks Ešenvalds, Randall Thompson, Timothy Takach, and Knut Nystedt.
Federated Church Chagrin Falls
Fryderyk Chopin Institute of Ohio
The Fryderik Chopin Institute of Ohio will present its season-opening program, a recital by pianist Jiana Peng, featuring the 24 preludes by Chopin and Ravel's La Valse on Wednesday evening, October 17th at
St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Chagrin Falls.
The Institute's second program will take place on Saturday, November 1st at Harkness Chapel at Case Western Reserve University and will feature Polish songs by Chopin, Paderewski, and Szymanowski performed by the Polish soprano Matgorzata Trajanowski in her American debut.
Great Lakes Theater
Great Lakes Theater's next show, opening October 24th will be Dial M for Murder. Performances will run through November 9th in the Hanna Theater in Playhouse Square. 216-241-6000.
Lakeland Community College
At Lakeland Community College, on Sunday afternoon, October 19th you can hear the Lakeland Civic Chorus performing Beyond all Mortal Dream. The concert will take place in Rodehorst Performing Arts Center at Lakeland Community College.
Les Delices
Les Délices' Concert Series officially begins in October with three performances of Bohemian Rhapsody on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 17th, 18th and 19th, in Akron, Cleveland Heights and Rocky River.
Les Délices will present a program of 18th century music for oboe and strings by Czech and Bohemian composers along with music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Magical Theater Company
The Magical Theater Company in Barberton will present The Third Wave through October 19th at the Park Theater.
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 continue through February 26th.
Massillon Museum
On Thursday evening, November 6th, The Massillon Museum's Rhythms Concert Series will present Youngstown native singer-songwriter and novelist J. D. Eicher in concert, with singer Josee McGee as the opening act.
Movement Project
The Movement Project’s Cleveland Dance Fest will celebrate its tenth anniversary, November 7th through 9th at Playhouse Square. It's a connection between artists and audiences through dance from Northeast Ohio
and beyond.
Music at Akron FCC
On Sunday afternoon, October 19th, First Congregational Church of Akron's Music@AkronFCC Concert Series will feature pianist Teresa Walters as part of her worldwide Celebration of Light Tour, celebrating the 800th Anniversary of the Canticle of the Sun written by St. Francis of Assisi in 1225.
Musical Theater Project
The Musical Theater Project next program will be It’s Time for a Love Song, featuring love songs that are up-tempo, jazzy and comical with a selection of screen classics. Sheri Gross will be the host, and Nancy Maier the music Director, with vocalists Joe Monaghan and Jill Hayman. The concert will take place at First Baptist Church on Sunday afternoon, November 9th.
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.
No Exit
No Exit will begin its seventeenth season with a pair of performances on Thursday and Saturday evenings, October 23rd and 25th at Kent State University and Praxis Fiber Workshop in Cleveland's Collinwood area. The program, called American Descent, will include pieces by Garth Knox, Geoffrey Burleson, June Young Will Kim and Andrew Rindfleisch
Oberlin College
The Oberlin Artist Recital Series will present the British vocal ensemble Voces 8 on Tuesday evening, October 28th in Finney Chapel.
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
Playhouse Square - Black Violin
On Saturday evening, November 15th, Playhouse Square will present the duo Black Violin’s Full Circle Tour. It's where classical meets hip-hop. Black Violin combines jazz, hip-hop, and funk with modern classical.
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 next program to be presented by the Resonance Project takes place on Friday evening, November 21sat Forest Hills Church. The concert is called Homeland and will feature the Cleveland Orchestra’s Assistant Concertmaster Stephani Tavani and Principal Keyboardist Dan Overly. i
Saint Paul's Episcopal Church
One of the world's premiere acapella vocal groups, the English ensemble Polyphony, led by Stephen Layton, will perform on Tuesday evening, October 21st, at Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights.
Trinity Lutheran Church
The Wednesday Noontime Music Near the Market continues at Trinity Lutheran Church on Lorain Road at West 30th Street. On the 22nd, Robert Myers plays Music for Reformation. And on October 29th, you'll have the chance to hear Owen Metz, visiting young artist from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
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.
Wit's Folly
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 2nd at Bath Church., in a program called Matched Wits.
Wolfs Gallery
Wolfs Gallery is presenting the works of Cleveland-born artist August Frederick Biehle in an exhibit titled Reckoning with Modernism. The show will be on view through December 30th.