Fri 11/15 @ 8PM
Sat 11/16 @ 2 & 8PM
Sun 11/17 @ 4PM
Tue 11/19 @ 7:30 PM
The next series of concerts offered by Apollo’s Fire, Cleveland’s baroque orchestra, is called Tangos & Fandangos. The very title suggests a lively evening of music.
The musicians will take listeners to the sunny Mediterranean as they play quintets by Boccherini, as well as the Tango Concerto for Two Violas da Gamba by Apollo’s Fire founding member René Schiffer, who’ll be soloing along with Japanese cellist/viola da gamba player Mime Brinkman.
Schiffer says of piece,
“My Concerto for Two Gambas originated as a playful attempt to show that the viola da gamba can be a loud instrument, and that baroque and classical composers were wrong in their failure to provide us with true concertos for it. Thanks to the use of chords and double stops, I think the two gambas hold their own in this piece against an ensemble of strings and guitars.”
Billy Simms and Simon Martyn-Ellis will be featured in the program as guitar soloists. There’ll be a pre-concert talk by violinist Andrew Fouts an hour before each show, each the matinee November 16.
The program will be played Friday and Saturday evening at Fairmount Presbyterian Church in Cleveland Heights, Saturday afternoon at Chagrin Falls’ Federated Church, Sunday at Rocky River Presbyterian Church, and Tuesday at First United Methodist Church in Akron.
Tickets are $21-$68.