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Mischa Santora, music director of the Cincinnati Chamber
Orchestra, opens the CCO’s 2009-10 season Sunday Sept. 20. Concerts are at 2 p.m. in Memorial Hall
downtown, 7:30 p.m. in Anderson Center in Anderson Township.
Featured soloist is CCO concertmistress, Anna Reider in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. Born in Russia to a distinguished musical family, Reider is also first violinist in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and a familiar figure on the Cincinnati concert scene.
Santora – self-styled “gypsy” for his Hungarian heritage and peripatetic life style (see this month’s Cincinnati Profile magazine) -- will lead the orchestra in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 and the Concerto for 7 Winds, Percussion and Strings by Swiss composer Frank Martin.
Tickets are $15 and $25, free for each child 18 and under accompanied by a ticketed adult.
Call (513) 723-1182, or order online at www.ccocincinnati.org
Also this weekend:
Something called
Classical Revolution is brewing at Northside Tavern, 4163 Hamilton Ave. The music-making begins at 9 p.m. and is
free.
Avant garde with a difference, Classical Revolution aims to reconcile classical music with today’s disparate and often turned-off audiences by performing chamber music outside traditional venues. The Cincinnati chapter meets the first Sunday of every month at Northside Tavern for a kind of classical jam. There is a planned program, but guests are invited to bring their instruments. So far, Mendelssohn's Octet is on the schedule for this weekend, followed by sight-reading.
Classical Revolution was founded in San Francisco in 2006 by a group of San Francisco Conservatory students (see http://classicalrevolution.org/). Cincinnati, it would appear, has been in step all along. Reference concertnova (see www.concertnova.com), an organization comprising mostly CSO and CCO musicians, that has been performing strikingly original programs, often in mixed-media formats, in non-traditional venues such as bars, museums and public places in Cincinnati for the past two years. Concertnova’s 09-10 season opens Oct. 4 with a Latin program at the Contemporary Arts Center.
Northern Kentucky
University introduces its new Patricia Corbett String Quartet in Residence at 8
p.m. Sept. 19 in Greaves Concert Hall at NKU.
The Rhine Quartet is made up of violinists Catherine Lange-Jensen and
Kun Dong, violist Joanne Wojtowicz and cellist Alan Raferty, all members of the
CSO. They succeed the Azmari Quartet who
left NKU last season.
Their debut program includes music by Mozart, Brahms and Hugo Wolf. Tickets are $10, $7 for students. For information, visit www.music.nku.edu
The Clermont Philharmonic Orchestra led by music director Jaime Morales performs a “South of the Border” program at 7 p.m. Sept. 19 in Union Township Amphitheater and 6 p.m. Sept. 20 at the Miami Township Performance Pavilion. If there is rain or cold weather, the Sept. 19 concert will move indoors to Glen Este High School and the Sept. 20 concert to Live Oaks School on Buckwheat Road. Admission is free.
Visit Fountain Square at 9 a.m. Sunday for a live simulcast on the Jumbo-tron of the “CBS Sunday Morning Show,” which will include footage of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music’s annual “Pianopalooza.” Last season’s event celebrated CCM’s acquisition in November, 2008 of 165 Steinway concert grand pianos. The bulk purchase, largest in Steinway history, officially made CCM an “All Steinway School.” Highlight of the 09 “Pianopalooza” was Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” performed on three Steinways by six members of the CCM piano faculty. Coffee and donuts will be available.
St. Peter in Chains Cathedral has announced its 2009-10 season, “Great Music in a Great Space.” The series opens at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22 with Tenebrae, a new 18-member vocal ensemble from England directed by Nigel Short. With repertoire spanning medieval and Renaissance to contemporary music, Tenebrae (“shadows” in Latin) often performs by candlelight to induce “an atmosphere of spiritual and musical reflection.” Tickets are $35 in advance, $38 at the door. Order by calling (513) 241-9517, online at www.stpeterinchains.cathedral.org or in person at the Cathedral, 325 E. Eighth St. downtown.
Also on the Cathedral
series is an all-Bach program in January to celebrate retiring Archbishop
Daniel E. Pilarczyk to be performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra led by
music director Paavo Järvi, a Christmas program by the Vienna Boys Choir, the
U.S. debut of the Swedish Radio Choir and the vocal ensemble Chanticleer.
The St. Peter in Chains 2009-10 season:
- Oct. 22. Tenebrae. Nigel Short, director.
- Nov. 29. Advent Lessons and Carols. Choir of St. Peter in Chains. Seasonal choral music with handbells.
- Dec. 1. Vienna Boys Choir. Holiday concert.
- Jan. 17. Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Paavo Järvi, conductor. All-Bach program.
- Feb. 24. Swedish Radio Choir. Ragnar Bohlin, guest conductor. Swedish, German and American choral music.
- March 31. Ancient Office of Tenebrae. Cathedral Choir. Gregorian chant, choral music of Holy Week, including the Lamentations of Jeremiah and Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere.
- April 25. Chanticleer. A cappella program.
- June 4. St. Peter in Chains Cathedral Choir. Anthony DiCello, director. Choral, organ and brass music.
Tickets are $35 in advance, $38 at the door, with student discounts at the door, except Jan. 17 and March 31, which are free (free-will offering accepted March 31), and June 4, which is $20.
Subscriptions are $136 for the five ticketed concerts (by Oct. 22), available at (513) 421-2222, www.stpeterinchainscathedral.org and in person at the Cathedral.
In the news, May
Festival Youth Chorus director James Bagwell has been named music director of
the famed Collegiate Chorale in New York City.
Bagwell, who is also director of choruses for the Bard Music Festival
and principal guest conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra, succeeds
Robert Bass. The Collegiate Chorale,
named for the Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan, was founded in 1941 by
Robert Shaw.
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