Season full of
possibilities Performances let audience closely observe dance, music
Whether
it's a return visit by the Emerson String Quartet to Wooster or the arrival of
a South Indian classical dance company in Akron, the upcoming season promises
Northeast Ohio audiences an enticing array of ways to observe music and dance
up close. Chamber and world music series abound, each one with its own flavor
of presentation.
Here's a sampling of what's available in the 2006-07 season.
And remember, there's more on the horizon.
Chamber Music Society
The Chamber Music Society of Ohio (George
Pope, flute; David Fisher, piano; and Valerie Thorson, organ) is gearing up for
a three-concert series. The series opens at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 10 at the Guest House
in Bath, a private home opened to the public for these events. Guest cellist Regina
Mushabac, violist Alan Bodman and pianist Eric Charnofsky will entertain in a
French program that includes an outdoor picnic and champagne.
At 4 p.m.
Feb. 18, pianist Fisher and hornist William Hoyt will play for a Mardi Gras masquerade
party at the Akron Woman's City Club. On July 9 and 10, the season closes at the
Guest House in Bath with members of the Solaris Woodwind Quintet of the University
of Akron and Eric Charnofsky. The event includes dinner and wine.
For tickets,
call 330-869-9113.
Tuesday Musical
The Tuesday Musical season begins
with the Yefim Bronfman/Gil Shaham/Truls Mork piano trio on Oct. 24 at E.J. Thomas
Hall in Akron. The Vienna Choir Boys perform on Nov. 30, followed by pianist Richard
Goode on Feb. 20. The Cleveland Orchestra returns for its annual Akron visit,
this time with rising star (and former assistant conductor) Alan Gilbert, on March
25. Violinist Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica arrive April 17, and the
season closes May 8 with the Empire Brass. Call 330-972-7570.
Ragamala Music
and Dance Theater, a South Indian classical dance company based in Minnesota,
will perform in the auditorium at the Akron-Summit County Public Library at 7
p.m. Nov. 13 as a bonus from Tuesday Musical. It's a free program presented with
the library.
Seating is first come, first served. Parking at the library
is free after 6 p.m.
Wooster Chamber Music
All concerts of the Wooster
Chamber Music Series start at 3 p.m. at Gault Recital Hall in the Scheide Music
Center, 525 University St., Wooster.
--Oct. 1: Emerson String Quartet.
--Nov.
5: Borealis Wind Quintet.
--Jan. 14: Colorado String Quartet.
--Feb.
4: Biava String Quartet.
--March 18: Juilliard String Quartet.
--April
15: Gryphon Trio.
Cleveland Chamber
Concerts of the Cleveland Chamber
Music Society take place at 8 p.m. at Fairmount Temple Auditorium, 23737 Fairmount
Blvd., Beachwood.
--Oct. 10: Beaux Arts Trio.
--Nov. 7: Garrick Ohlsson,
piano.
--Dec. 5: Tokyo String Quartet.
--Jan. 16: Moscow Soloists
with Yuri Bashmet, viola.
--March 6: Cuarteto Casals.
--March 20:
Concertante (string sextet).
--April 24: Miro String Quartet.
Chamber
Symphony
The Cleveland Chamber Symphony has won many programming awards
for its adventurous concerts. This season's concerts are free, as always, and
led by Steven Smith, who is also the music director of the Santa Fe Symphony.
--4
p.m. Jan 21: In residence at Baldwin-Wallace College, performing world premieres
of Concerto for Recorder and Chamber Orchestra by Gerald Plain and a work by David
Taddie. Program also includes works by Tan Dun and Charles Ives. Gamble Auditorium,
Baldwin-Wallace College, Kulas Musical Arts Building, 96 Front St., Berea.
--12:10
p.m. March 14: Music of Arnold Schoenberg, George Antheil and Tania Leon, performed
in the Brown Bag concert series at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland. Program repeated
at 7 p.m. March 16 at Westlake United Methodist Church.
