Wed 12/4 @ 7:30PM
Thu 12/5 @ 7:30 PM
Fri 12/6 @ 7:30 PM
Sat 12/7 @ 7:30PM
Sun 12/8 @ 4PM
Instead of the predictable Christmas music program, the CityMusic Cleveland Chamber Orchestra is offering a little something different — but still very upbeat and festive — for its December program.
That program will focus on the music of Viennese composer Johann Strauss, known for his light classical music, especially his waltzes and other dance pieces. Those make up the heart of the program, including of course his “Blue Danube.” Polkas, marches, and the overture to his light opera Die Fledermaus.
It will also include a few selections by Vienna-based Hungarian operetta composer Franz Lehár (The Merry Widow) and the Trumpet Concerto in E Major by Johann Hummel, another Hungarian-Viennese composer who worked a century before Lehár.
Cleveland Orchestra member Jack Sutte is the soloist for the concerto. Soprano Stacey Mastrian (pictured) will sing arias from Strauss and Lehár operettas. Stefan Willich conducts.
As usual, each of the five performances takes place in a different part of Northeast Ohio, in keeping with CityMusic Cleveland’s mission of making quality classical music accessible by bringing it to various neighborhoods.
On Wednesday it will be at the Fairmount Presbyterian Church in Cleveland Heights. It moves west to Lakewood Congregational Church on Friday and back east to Lake County, to St. Noel’s Church in Willoughby on Friday. On Saturday, it performs at the spectacular Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus in Slavic Village. It winds up on Sunday at St. Mary Parish in Elyria.
As always, CityMusic performances are free.
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