Sun 8/24 @ 3PM
The Cleveland Cultural Gardens in Rockefeller Park used to be something you glanced it out of your car window as you sped down MLK Drive from University Circle to the Shoreway.
But they’ve been getting more use recently, as setting for events of various kinds. Opera per Tutti has been doing their annual concert at the Italian Garden for a few years now. Perhaps inspired by the popularity of that event, which took place in July, the Russian Cultural Garden is hosting the first annual (they say hopefully) Grand Piano in the Russian Garden concert.
What’s especially intriguing is that there IS no Russian Garden — just a site for a future one, across from the Armenian Garden. But with this concert they’ll raise awareness and undoubtedly make a pitch for donations.
The concert will feature the music of some of the 13 musicians whose busts are located in seven of the gardens: Chopin (Polish), Liszt (Hungarian), and Verdi (Italian), played by Cleveland-based pianists Dmitry Tyurin and Nara Avetisyan, and Russia’s 21-year-old Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev (pictured), second prize winner of the 2013 Cleveland International Piano competition. They’ll be joined by Russiam tenor Mikhail Urusov.
The concert is free. They’ll provide 150 chairs, but if you want to be sure you have a place to sit, bring your own lawn chair or blanket. Members of the Friends of the Russian Garden get two reserved seats. Annual membership is $25, and you can join here.
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