{"id":2407667,"date":"2026-05-08T14:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2407667"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:07:09","slug":"cleveland-classical-music-events-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/cleveland-classical-music-events-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Classical Music Events This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MAY 8 \u2013 FRIDAY<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Today at 11 am at Severance Music Center, Franz Welser-M\u00f6st leads The Cleveland Orchestra <\/strong>in Sergei Prokofiev\u2019s First Symphony<\/em>, and excerpts from Wagner\u2019s G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung. <\/em>Repeated on Saturday at 7:30 with the addition of the U.S. premiere of Olga Neuwirth\u2019s Zones of Blue<\/em> with clarinetist J\u00f6rg Widmann.<\/p>\n

This evening at 7:30, <\/strong>Gregory Ristow conducts the Cleveland Chamber Choir <\/strong>in La Fleur de la Renaissance: Chansons, motets, and mass movements from Renaissance France at Trinity Cathedral (repeated on Saturday at First Lutheran in Lorain, The Resonance Project <\/strong>presents Lullabies and Laments with CLE Concierto Baroque ensemble at Forest Hill Church, and Raphael Jim\u00e9nez leads the Oberlin Orchestra <\/strong>with pianist William Chen<\/strong> in Sergei Rachmaninoff\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 3 and Camille Saint-Sa\u00ebns Symphony No. 3 in Finney Chapel.<\/p>\n

MAY 9 \u2013 SATURDAY<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Tonight at 7:30, Christopher Wilkins conducts the Akron Symphony and Chorus <\/strong>in Carl Orff\u2019s Carmina Burana<\/em>, Maurice Ravel\u2019s Bolero<\/em>, and Margaret Brouwer\u2019s Rhapsody Concerto<\/em> in E.J. Thomas Hall.<\/p>\n

MAY 10 \u2013 SUNDAY<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Events this Sunday afternoon feature the Cleveland Orchestra Double Bass Quartet<\/strong> (Mark Atherton, Scott Dixon, Derek Zadinsky, and Charles Paul, 2 pm at Beachwood Community Center), The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, <\/strong>James Feddeck, conducting, with Grace Berendt, trombone, performing Aaron Copland\u2019s Letter from Home<\/em>, George Walker\u2019s Icarus in Orbit<\/em>, Ferdinand David\u2019s Concertino for Trombone and Orchestra,<\/em> and Anton\u00edn Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s Symphony No. 9<\/em> (3 pm in Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center), and Heights Chamber Orchestra, <\/strong>Travis J\u00fcrgens, conducting, with trumpeter Lyle Steelman (3:30 at Fairmount Presbyterian Church).<\/p>\n

MAY 11 \u2013 MONDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rocky River Chamber Music Society <\/strong>presents baritone Edward Vogel <\/strong>with pianist Jenny Parker<\/strong> in A Palace in the Wild: Journeys in British Art Song (7:30 at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church).<\/p>\n

For details of these and other classical music events, please visit the ClevelandClassical.com concert listings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.clevescene.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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