Lakeside Week 9 - Calendar of Events

Saturday, Aug. 14
Lakeside Symphony Orchestra - From Broadway to Hollywood

Music Director Robert Cronquist and the Lakeside Symphony Orchestra will present a concert of music from Broadway to Hollywod. The program will open with a salute to Cole Porter, highlighting his Broadway successes. The evening will continue with selections from the award-winning Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, "The Sound of Music," and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical, "The Phantom of the Opera." Following intermission, the Lakeside Symphony Orchestra will perform selections from Lerner and Loewe's 1956 musical, "My Fair Lady," and a suite from "Star Wars," composed by John Williams.

Sunday, Aug. 15
6 p.m. Steele Memorial Bandstand (Central Park)
The Unexpected Party

The Unexpected Party takes audiences back in time with Civil War-era costumes, traditional instruments and early American folk songs. On Sunday, Aug. 15, the group will bring its unique blend of old-time instruments and music to Lakeside for Family Night in the Park. The seven-member group will play folk songs such as "Amazing Grace," "Danny Boy" and "Yellow Rose of Texas" on hammered dulcimer, Celtic harp, concertina, penny whistle, flute, washboard, harmonica, bodhran, tin whistle, Jew's harp, acoustic bass and 12-string guitar.

Monday, Aug. 16
Hoover Movie Night: "To Sir, with Love"

Communications engineer Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier) accepts a teaching position at a tough London high school where students bully teachers. Thackeray, who comes from a humble background much like his students, decides to prepare them for real life by treating them as adults. Written and directed by James Clavell, "To Sir, with Love" was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award and received a Golden Laurel Award and a Grammy Award. The title song, "To Sir, with Love," by Scottish pop singer Lulu, was Billboard's number one pop single in 1967.

Tuesday, Aug. 17
Lakeside Symphony Orchestra - "Lakeside Concerto" & Schumann Symphony #3

Violinist Santino Ellis-Perez will join the Lakeside Symphony Orchestra for the world premiere of Benjamin Lloyd's "Lakeside Concerto." The violin concerto has three movements: "Allegro - Promenade on the Dock 9PM," "Largo - Sunrise Over Vesper Point" and "Rondo - Saturday Night at Put-in-Bay." Other selections for the concert will include the overture from Richard Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman," the "Marche Militaire Française" from Camille Saint-Saëns' "Suite Algérienne" and Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, "Rhenish Symphony."

Ellis-Perez is a junior at Arizona State University's Herberger College of the Arts, majoring in music performance. He plays in the Arizona State University Symphony Orchestra, in its Baroque Ensemble and in its Opera and Chamber Orchestras.

Wednesday, Aug. 18
Tingstad & Rumbel

Grammy Award winners Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel have performed, recorded and toured together for 25 years. In 2008, they released their 19th album, "Leap of Faith." Now they will bring their unique combination of acoustic fingerstyle guitar and melodic woodwinds to Lakeside. Their performance will include selections from the album and old favorites, as well as unrecorded songs. Tingstad & Rumbel will also perform arrangements of standards from the American songbook, such as "Summertime" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."

Thursday, Aug. 19
"Our Huckleberry Friend: The Songs of Johnny Mercer"

Lakeside will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of singer-lyricist Johnny Mercer with "Our Huckleberry Friend," a multi-media show produced by The Musical Theater Project. The concert spotlights the life of the lyricist with images, video and audio clips, and features more than 30 Mercer favorites, including "Moon River," "Charade," "Lazybones," "That Old Black Magic," "One for My Baby" and "Something's Gotta Give." Hosted by national radio personality Bill Rudman and pianist Joe Hunter, the program features vocalists Vince Mastro, Helen Welch and Evelyn Wright.

Friday, Aug. 20
Lakeside Symphony Orchestra Closing Night

Pianist Emanuela Friscioni will return to Lakeside for the closing of the Lakeside Symphony Orchestra's 47th season on Friday, Aug. 20. The Symphony will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederic Chopin with a performance of his Concerto No. 2 in F Minor. Following intermission, the Symphony will play Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite "Scheherazade."

Friscioni was born in Cantù, Italy, and received her diploma in piano performance from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, Italy, in 1997. She is currently the director of the Classical Music Performance Academy at Cuyahoga Community College and a faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Music.