Paul Ferguson, director
Helen Welch, vocals

Pack a picnic, grab a lawn chair or a blanket and come enjoy the sounds of Cleveland’s own jazz orchestra performing music of Irving Berlin, Hoagy Carmichael, Paul Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, Michel Legrand, Duke Ellington, Cole Porter and more.

… an Arts in August event

Collage: Music & Poetry

Annie Fullard, violin
Mari Sato, violin
Eric Wong, viola
Daniel Pereira, cello
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COLLAGE: Music and Poetry is a multi discipline performance experience which takes the audience on an electrifying journey through spoken poetry woven in and around music.

This concert is sponsored in part by a generous anonymous donor.

Their program will include an eclectic mix of songs by Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Weill, Bernstein and others.

An alumna of the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s young artist program, Ms. Kuznetsova went on to star in a number of new productions at the theater, including Cunning Little Vixen, Rigoletto and, marking her role debut as Tatyana, Eugene Onegin under the baton of Sir Andrew Davis, opposite Dmitry Hvorostovsky. Since that debut, she has built a name as an outstanding interpreter of Tchaikovsky’s leading lady, attracting acclaim from her many subsequent productions. Other highlights have included Desdemona (Otello) with the Gulbenkian Orchestra under Lawrence Foster, Alice Ford at Glyndebourne under Vladimir Jurowski (available on DVD), and Cio–Cio San in Anthony Minghella’s production of Madama Butterfly at English National Opera under Gianluca Marcianò and, in original version, at Atlanta Opera and Cleveland Opera Theater. Ms. Kuznetsova reprises her portrayal of Cio-Cio San at Pittsburgh Opera this fall.

Burning River Brass appears through the generosity of concert sponsor Kenneth Noetzel.

A Cleveland Holiday Tradition!

2 pm Concert Preview – Donald Rosenberg

Takako Masame, violin
Miho Hashizume, violin
Lynne Ramsey, viola
Ralph Curry, cello
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The Amici Quartet continues their multi-concert series of the complete Beethoven String Quartets.

Program
BEETHOVEN
Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5
Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132 (Heiliger Dankgesang)

The Amici Quartet Beethoven series is generously sponsored by an anonymous donor.

PROGRAM:
BACH: Violin Sonata No. 2, A minor, BWV 1003
BARTÓK: Solo Violin Sonata, BB124, Sz. 117
BACH: Violin Partita No. 2, D minor, BWV 1004

2pm concert preview with Zsolt Bognár

PROGRAM:
Schumann: Märchenbilder (Fairy Tale Pictures), Op. 113 for Violin and Piano
Oskar Nedbal: B minor Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 9
Juraj Filas: Les Adieux for Violin and Piano (dedicated to Ivan Zenaty)
Edvard Grieg: Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45

Selections from the Great American Songbook

Evelyn Wright, vocals / Jackie Warren, piano / Aidan Plank, bass / Mark Ginder, drums