November 2013 marks the inaugural concerts of Louis Langrée as the 13th
music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Also this month,
the 2013 Constella Festival of Music and Fine Arts concludes with
violinist Joshua Bell and the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music launches its centennial celebration of
composer Benjamin Britten with a performance of his rarely heard opera
"Owen Wingrave."
Here's what's ahead as Turkey Day approaches:
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Rafael
Frühbeck
de Burgos, conductor
Pepe Romero, guitar
Nov. 1 -- 11 a.m.
Nov. 2 -- 8 p.m.
Music Hall
Guest conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos leads the CSO in a Spanish-flavored concert featuring guitarist Pepe Romero in the Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquin Rodrigo. Also on the program are the t" by Suites No. 1 and 2 from "The Three-Cornered Hat by Manuel de Falla and the Symphony No. 3 ("Rhenish") by Robert Schumann. Tickets begin at $12. Call (513) 381-3300, or visit www.cincinnatisymphony.org
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Constella Festival
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players
Nov. 1 -- 7:30 p.m.
Mayerson Theatre
School for Creative and Performing Arts
The CSO Chamber Players open their new season with a program of German Romantics, including the Serenade in G Major by Max Reger, Schumann's "M
ärchenerzählungen"
and Brahms' Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major. Performing will be flutist
Amy Taylor, clarinetist Ron Aufmann, violinists Timothy Lees and
Rebecca Culnan, violists Christian Colberg and Paul Frankenfeld, cellist
Daniel Culnan and pianists Donna Loewey and Frank Weinstock. Tickets begin at $25, available by calling (513) 381-3300 or online at www.cincinnatisymphony.org
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Washington Platform Jazz Series
Mike Wade, trumpet
Nov. 1 -- 9 p.m. to midnight
Washington Platform restaurant
1000 Elm St.
downtown
Appearing at Washington Platform
this week will be jazz trumpeter Mike Wade, with Melvin Broach on
drums, Phil DeGregg on piano, and Michael Sharfe on bass. Also,
continuing through Saturday Nov. 16 is Washington Platform's 14th
annual "Crab Carnival," with special menu selections. No cover. $10 food
and drink
minimum. Kitchen open 8:30-11 p.m. Bar open until midnight. Call (513)
421-0110
for reservations.
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Kentucky Symphony OrchestraAppearing at Washington Platform this week will be The Time Market Quartet, with Rusy Burge and Chris Barrick on vibes, Michael Sharfe on bass and Marc Wolfley on drums. Also, continuing through Saturday Nov. 16 is Washington Platform's 14th annual "Crab Carnival," with special menu selections. No cover. $10 food and drink minimum. Kitchen open 8:30-11 p.m. Bar open until midnight. Call (513) 421-0110 for reservations.
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Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Louis Langrée, music director
Maya Angelou, narrator
eighth blackbird
Nov. 8 and 9 -- 8 p.m.
Nov. 10 -- 2 p.m.
Music Hall
These concerts mark the inaugural celebration of Louis Langrée as 13th music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Guest artist Dr. Maya Angelou will narrate Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait"
in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address,
complete with multi-media visuals. CSO ensemble-in-residence eighth blackbird will join the orchestra in Jennifer Higdon's "On a Wire." Langrée and the CSO will close the concert with Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. Tickets begin at $12, available at www.cincinnatisymphony.org, or call (513) 381-3300. ___________________________________________________________________________________
Appearing at Washington Platform
this week will be
The Jim Connerley Quintet, featuring John Zappa, trumpet, Dan Drees,
tenor saxophone, Jim Connerley, piano, Jim Anderson, bass and Tony
Franklin, drums. The band will present jazz classics by Horace Silver, Wayne Shorter, Tom Harrell and Barry Ries, as well as original music and arrangements. Continuing through Saturday Nov. 16 is Washington Platform's 14th
annual "Crab Carnival," with special menu selections. No cover. $10 food
and drink
minimum. Kitchen open 8:30-11 p.m. Bar open until midnight. Call (513)
421-0110
for reservations.
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Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Lollipops Family Concert
John Morris Russell, conductor
Nov. 16 -- 10:30 a.m.
Music Hall
Theme
of the CSO's first Lollipops Family Concert of the season (designed for children 2-12 and their parents) is
superheroes, with music from "Superman," "Batman," "Spiderman," "Wonder
Woman" and others. Pre-concert activities in the Music Hall lobby begin
at 9:30. Admission is $12, $6 for children. Call (513) 381-3300, or
order online at www.cincinnatisymphony.org
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Music at Ascension
Alexandra Mullins, harp
Nov. 16 -- 7:30 p.m.
Ascension Lutheran Church
7333 Pfeiffer Rd.
Music at Ascension presents harpist Alexandra Mullins in works by Gioachino Rossini, Paul Hindemith, Henriette Renie, Paul Patterson, Francois Joseph Dizi and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Admission is free. Donations accepted.
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Middletown Symphony
Calabria Foti, vocalist
Bob McChesney, trombone
Carmon DeLeone, conductor
Nov. 16 -- 8 p.m.
Finkelman Auditorium
Miami University Middletown
Vocalist Calabria Foti of Los Angeles and jazz trombonist Bob McChesney join the Middletown Symphony in this pops concert on the Middletown campus of Miami University. Backing her up will be a jazz combo made up of Rick VanMatre, Mike Darrah and Michael Sharfe, with conductor Carmon DeLeone (who will conduct from the set), on drums. Tickets are $30, $20 for students. available at http://www.middletownsymphony.com/
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The Linton Chamber Music Series presents pianists Anna Polonsky and Orion Weiss in Schubert's Fantasy in F Minor for Piano Four-Hands and Dvorak's Slavonic Dances for Piano Four-Hands. Also on the program is the Passacaglia
for Violin and Cello by Handel/Halverson, Fantasy Pieces for Cello and
Piano by Robert Schumann and Stravinsky's Suite Italienne for Violin and
Piano, featuring violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson. Tickets are $30 at (513) 381-6868, or visit www.lintonmusic.org
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Vocal Arts Ensemble
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra
Mischa Santora, conductor
Nov. 17 -- 4 p.m.
St. Catherine of Siena Church
2848 Fischer Place
Westwood
The annual collaboration by the Vocal Arts Ensemble and Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra features two choral/orchestral masterworks two centuries apart, Mozart's "Great Mass" in C Minor, K.427 (1783), and Arvo Pärt's Te Deum (1985). Tickets are $25, $10 for children, at www.ccocincinnati.org, or call (513) 381-3300.
_______________________________________________________________Appearing at Washington Platform this week will be the Anderson/Broach/Kelly Trio in music for piano, bass and drums, featuring original compositions by Pat Kelly plus repertoire by Cedar Walton, Denny Zeitlin, Jimmy Rowles, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk and others. No cover. $10 food and drink minimum. Kitchen open 8:30-11 p.m. Bar open until midnight. Call (513) 421-0110 for reservations.
_______________________________________________________________________________Appearing at Washington Platform this week will be guitarist Dan Faehnle, with Phil DeGregg on piano, Michael Sharfe on bass and Tony Franklin on drums. No cover. $10 food and drink minimum. Kitchen open 8:30-11 p.m. Bar open until midnight. Call (513) 421-0110 for reservations.
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