Arts Calendar
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Baldwin Wallace Conservatory
There are three concerts coming up at Baldwin Wallace University. On Friday evening, October 1st, David Becker will conduct the Baldwin Wallace Symphony in music by Dvorak, Brahms and Saint-Saens. On Sunday evening, October 3rd, Cleveland Orchestra clarinetist and BW Faculty Member Daniel McElway and friends will have music of Mendelssohn, Dahl and Brahms. And on Friday evening, October 8th, there'll be a performance by the Baldwin Wallace Symphony Wind Ensemble. All performances will also be live streamed.
Beck Center
At Beck Center in Lakewood, Broadway Bound, the final play in Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical trilogy which also includes Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues, opens the Professional Theater season, running September 10th through October 3rd. Broadway star Austin Pendleton heads the cast as Ben
Beck Center - Visual Arts Exhibition
Lakewood's Beck Center, in collaboration with TRANSIT ARTS, a program of Central Community House, has an exhibition of paintings and drawings under the title Cultural Heritiage Exhibition and Experience, running to November 15th.
Cavani Quartet
The Cavani Quartet continues its Beyond Beethoven series, featuring all of Beethoven's Quartets matched with contemporary pieces for Quartet. On Sunday, October 10th, they'll perform at The Music Settlement's Glick Recital Hall with Beethoven's Quartets 4 and 14 plus music by Dinuk Wijeratnet.
Chagrin Documentary Film Festival
This year's Chagrin Documentary Film Festival takes place Octorber 5th through 10th. Films will be screened at multiple venues in Chagrin Falls, as well as on the CDFF On Deman app. The Festival will also broadcast live question and answer sessions from the Live on Main Studio.
Church of the Covenant
At the Church of the Covenant in University Circle, there are two series of drive-in carillon concerts, performed on the McGaffin Carillon on Fridays at lunchtime, 12:15, and on Sunday afternoons at 4:00. There are two guest carillon performers coming to the Church of the Covenant. On Sunday afternoon, September 19th, Michelle Lam will pay tribute to nine women composers and arrangers, in tribute to the late Supreme Court Justic Ruth Bader Ginsburg. On Sunday, October 3rd, Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra will celebrate the many ways that carillons bring together communities in times of struggles and celebration.
Clague Playhouse
Clague Playhouse will open its 94th season with the comedy Mrs. Mannerly by Jeffrey Hatcher. The show opens on September 10th and will run Thursdays through Sundays through October 3rd. 440-331-0403
Cleveland Chamber Music Society
The Cleveland Chamber Music Society will open its new season with the Imani Winds in performance at Kulas Hall at the Cleveland Institute of Music on Tuesday evening, October 5th. The program will feature music of Bozza, Carter, Tomasi, Hillborg and Coleman.
Cleveland Cinematheque
Cleveland Cinematheque has resumed in-person screenings at the Peter B. Lewis Theater at the Cleveland Institute of Art A wide variety of films are being shown. There's a special series of nine films being shown in September and October, films by Federicao Fellini. And the Cleveland Cinematheque will continue its Virtual Multiplex on line, with new films being added each week. You can check out the current list at their website.
Cleveland Composers Guild
On Sunday afternoon, October 10th, the Cleveland Composers Guild presents Chamber Music at First Baptist Church. The program will feature pieces by Sebastian Birch, William Rayer, Karen Griebling, Steven Stanziano and others.
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art is open for in-person visits. The Museum is currently presenting two new shows: Art of the Islamic World and Medieval Treasures from Muenster Cathedral . Reservations are required.
Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra will begin its 2021-2022 season at Severance Hall with concerts to be led by Music Director Franz Welser-Moest October 14th through 17th. Alissa Weilerstein will be the soloist in the Cello Concerto by Joan Tower. Riachard Strauss's tone poem Macbeth will open the program, and Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5 will conclude. All guests at Severance Hall must provide proof of vaccination or provide a negative PCR test, and all guests, regardless of vaccination status, must wear a mask. You can check the Orchestra's website for more information.
Cleveland Philharmonic
The Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra's 84th season will begin with a program of arias and orchestral excerpts from Italian operas by Rossini, Puccini, Verdi, Catalani and Mascagni. Soprano Carrie Hennessey will join the Orchestra for two performances, on Saturday evening, October 16th at Westlake Performing Arts Center, and Sunday afternoon, October 17th, at Cleveland State University's Waetjen Auditorium. 216-556-1800
Dance Cleveland
As part of its 65th Anniversary Season, DanceCleveland will bring Monica Bill Barnes and Company to Akron's E. J. Thomas Hall on Saturday evening, September 25. The company will present the world premiere of an evening-length work called The Running Show.
Great Lakes Theater
Great Lakes Theater will begin its new season with Shakespeare's The Tempest, opening October 15th and running through November 7th at the Hanna Theater.
LatinUs Theater Company
LatinUs Theater Company will perform The House of Bernard Alba, the final work by Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, performed in Spanish with English supertitles from September 17th through October 3 at The Pivot Center on West 25th Street in Cleveland in the Clark-Fulton Neighborhood.
Les Delices
The ensemble Les Delices will open its 2021-2022 season on Thursday evening, October 7th, with an on-line program called Song of Orpheus, two cantatas based on that story by Jean-Philippe Rameau and Philippe Courbois. The program will be available through November 7th.
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Les Delices Salon Era
The new season of Salon Era concerts by Les Delices begins on Monday evening, September 13th, with Bach and Beyond. The virtual series will also include a program devoted to Performer-Composers on September 27th, Song of Orpheus on October 7th, Phoenix of Mexico on October 18th and Divine Love on November 8th.
Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory
The Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory on East 47th Street in Cleveland has a gallery exhibition called Cross Generations: Bridging the Gap of Artists, on view through September 30th, and will open a new exhibition called In Search of A Second Moon, highlighting new works by founder Tom Balbo, running September 24th through October 30th.
Music Near the Market
The free Wednesday noontime organ recitals continue at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church and its Beckerath organ at West 30th and Lorain. On September 29th, Robert Myers plays “Minor delights,” music by Scheidemann, Boehm, and Bach. In October, on the 6th and 13th, Florence Mustric plays "Raising the Harmonic Bar," with music by Mendelssoh, Suda, Bartok and others
No Exit
The Cleveland New Music Ensemble No Exit will begin its new season with a series of live performances at Cleveland State's Drinko Recital Hall on Friday, Sseptember 24th, at Spaces on Detroit on Friday, October 1 and at Heights Arts on Saturday, October 2nd. There'll be a wide variety of music by Derrik Balogh, Giuseppe Desiato, Jiri Trtik, Timothy Beyer and Agata Zubel, including two world premieres.
Playhouse Square - Lion King
Disney's The Lion King will open its North American tour at Cleveland's Playhouse Square, from October 1st through the 15th.
ReSound 2022
Re:Sound is an annual new and experimental music festival that brings together and showcases pioneers in the arts with diverse programming at venues throughout Cleveland. By connecting local and visiting artists, the festival further propels the innovation and artistry flourishing in Northeast Ohio.
Through October 1st, ReSound is accepting performance proposals and, new this year, educational proposals for lectures, interactive workshops, and presentations. Re:Sound 2022 runs June 9th through 12th.
Rocky River Chamber Music Society
The first concert of the new season to be presented by the Rocky River Chamber Music Society will take place on Monday evening, October 4th, at the Lakewood Congregational Church on West Clifton Boulevard. Germany's Auryn Quartet will present music of Haydn, Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
Verb Ballets
Verb Ballets continues its seres of performances around the area. On the evening of September 3rd, they’ll perform in the Evans Amphitheater in Cain Park. Then, on Saturday, September 11th, at 1:00. they’ll travel to Wooster’s Public Square to dance Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. And on Saturday evening, September 18th, they’ll present Pandemoniouom at Cleveland Public Theater.
Workshop Players
The Workshop Players of Amherst will open their season with the off-Broadway comedy Panache running October 7th through 17th. 440-988-5613