Tuesdays at 12:00 p.m.: St. Paul's Episcopal Church 317 East Liberty Street, Medina, Ohio. Brown Bag Concert Bring your own lunch or brown bag lunches are available for $5.00. Just call the church office 24 hours prior to the concert at 330-725-4131.
November 15: Karen McCurdy, Hammered Dulcimer and Karen Babb,Celtic Harp
Tuesdays at 12:10: Messiah Lutheran Church, 21485 Lorain Road, Fairview Park, Ohio 44126. 440.331.2405.
www.messiahchurchfairview.org. Music for Tuesdays at 12:10 starts up again on October 18! This will be a wonderful series of programs-a lot of music that you'll not hear anywhere else this year! The programs are held in the sanctuary and are open to the public. Bring your brown bag lunch-we provide coffee, tea, and cookies. The programs conclude before 1:00 p.m. and are entirely informal...come when you can, and leave when you must. While a donation is not turned down, it's not obligatory.
Nov 22: The Dinglehop Sisters-Swinging on a Star
Nov 29: The Baldwin-Wallace Alumni Brass Ensemble
Dec. 6: The North Coast Consort of Viols; From the Renaissance on...
Dec. 13: Edith Yerger and David Betts, recorders; Music for Two to Celebrate Christmas
Wednesdays at noon: Music Near the Market at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2031 West 30th St., Cleveland. CONTACT: Florence Mustric: 216.321.1393. FREE.
November 23: Linda Kempke, harpsichord
November 30: Robin Jenkins, piano
Wednesdays at 12:10 p.m.: Brownbag Concerts at Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115. 216.771.3630.
www.trinitycleveland.org. Bring a lunch or purchase one for $5.00. Concerts range from jazz to classical chamber music, big band, pipe organ with brass, vocal music of George Gershwin and much more. All programs take place in the beautiful Gothic nave of Trinity Cathedral. There is no admission fee - a freewill offering is taken at each concert. The Trinity Commons parking lot entrance is on Prospect Avenue at East 22nd Street (Free parking). Overflow parking is available in the Cleveland State University Prospect garage.
November 30: Cleveland Orchestra Stars: Cleveland Orchestra flutist Mary Kay Fink joins organist Todd Wilson in rarely heard works for flute and organ.
December 7: Organ Recital by Elizabeth Lenti, Trinity's Associate for Music and Worship plays the mighty Flentrop organ.
December 14: Britten-Fest: A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28. Cathedral Choir sopranos and altos with harpist Jody Guinn present this holiday favorite.
Friday, November 18 at 7:30 p.m.: Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115. 216.771.3630.
www.trinitycleveland.org. Britten-Fest: Music of a 20th-Century Genius. Freewill offering. Saint Nicolas, Op. 42. The Trinity Cathedral Choir and Chamber Orchestra; JR Fralick as Nicolas. The Trinity Commons parking lot entrance is on Prospect Avenue at East 22nd Street (Free parking). Overflow parking is available in the Cleveland State University Prospect garage.
Saturday, November 19 at 7:30 p.m.: Brecksville United Methodist Church, 65 Public Square, Brecksville OH 44141. Duo Keyboard Concert. Joy Fenton and Chris Toth. Music for organ & piano and piano four hands. Freewill Offering. Music by Peeters, Finzi, Bach, Busoni, Jongen, Raney, and Gershwin. Joy Fenton, Director of Music. 440.526.8938.
music@brecksvilleumc.com Sunday, November 20 at 11:00 a.m.: Forest Hill Church, 3031 Monticello Blvd., Cleveland Hts., Ohio. Forest Hill Church is engaged in a year of art-enhanced liturgies, one per month, and this Sunday, November 20th, the church will celebrate dance and music. Dancers from Inlet Dance Theatre will dance to Bach's Jig Fugue (played by organist Anne Wilson) and to the closing hymn I Danced in the Morning. The congregation is marking the 20th anniversary of the Casavant pipe organ with works that feature the organ. The choir will sing Mathias's Let All the People Praise Thee, O God. Worship begins at 11:00 AM.
Sunday, November 20 at 2:00 p.m.: Church of the Saviour, 2537 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118, 216.321.8880.
www.chsaviour.org. Thanksgiving Concert. Festive music for multiple choirs and handbells, including Z. Randall Stroope's American Rhapsody for combined choirs, organ, brass and percussion. Free-will offering. Free lighted parking, handicapped accessible.
Sunday, November 20 at 2:00 p.m.: Gamble Auditorium, Kulas Musical Arts Bldg., Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music, 96 Front St. Berea, OH. Baroque Trumpet, Organ and Timpani Concert. Michael Miller, Lyle Steelman, and Jack Sutte, trumpeters with The Cleveland Orchestra, present an eclectic shapshot of trumpet music from the Baroque period with organist, Barbara MacGregor. The program includes trumpet concertos by Albinoni and Telemann, English Voluntaries, and familiar transcriptions by J. S. Bach. Heroic music for trumpet and timpani with timpanist, Josh Ryan, will begin and end the concert. Free admission. For more information contact Craig Reynolds, 440-826-807.
creynold@bw.edu,
Sunday, November 20 at 3:00 p.m.: Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115. 216.771.3630.
www.trinitycleveland.org. Britten-Fest: Music of a 20th-Century Genius. Freewill offering. The Five Canticles, followed by High Tea. JR Fralick (tenor); John McElliott (alto); Al Glickson (bass); Todd Wilson (piano)
Sunday, November 20 at 3:30 p.m.: First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland, 3630 Fairmount Boulevard at Eaton Road, Shaker Heights, Ohio. Heights Chamber Orchestra. The Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4.
Sunday November 20 at 4:00 p.m.: Brecksville United Church of Christ, 23 Public Square, Brecksville, OH 44141440. The Bel Fiore String Quartet from the Cleveland Institute of Music. The free concert will feature works by Puccini, Shostakovich, Freckmann, and Milhaud. A free will offering will be received, and a light reception will follow the program. Brecksville UCC is located at 23 Public Square in downtown Brecksville near the intersection of Routes 82 and 21. Parking is available behind the church off 82 or one block south of 82 off Arlington St. The building is handicapped accessible. For more information, call 440-526-4364.
Sunday, November 20 at 4:00 p.m.: Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2031 West 30th St., Cleveland. CONTACT: Florence Mustric: 216.321.1393. Madrigal Feaste! Ashland University Chamber Singers. Rowland Blackley, conductor. Ashland University Chamber Singers will preview the Christmas season, renaissance style! Come enjoy the vocal splendor of this distinctive music.
Sunday, November 20 at 4:30 p.m.: First Church, 106 N. Main St., Oberlin, Ohio. The Lorain County AGO chapter is putting on a hymn-playing workshop. Nicole Keller will be the leader of this event. Free admission; all are welcome!
www.lcago.org Sunday, November 27 at 5:30 p.m.: Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115. 216.771.3630.
www.trinitycleveland.org. Tuba Christmas Cleveland. Freewill offering. Big brass music of the season. The Trinity Commons parking lot entrance is on Prospect Avenue at East 22nd Street (Free parking). Overflow parking is available in the Cleveland State University Prospect garage.
Sunday, November 27 at 7:00 p.m.: Grace Lutheran Church, 13001 Cedar Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118.
http://graceheights.org. Handel's Messiah. The Cleveland Messiah Chorus, organized in 1921. Ginie Mast, Director. Christopher Toth, Organ. Freewill Offering. Tony Peterson, Secretary.
clevmessiahchorus@gmail.com Friday, December 2 at 7:00 p.m.: Church of the Ascension, 13216 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio. Dusenbury Choral Festival. Horace Mann Elementary School, Harding Middle School Choir and Sing-Along. Free-will offering.
Sunday, December 4 at 3:00 p.m.: First Lutheran Church, 603 Washington Ave., Lorain, OH 44052. First.music - Advent Music. A musical prayer service featuring organ and choral music of Johannes Brahms. Free admission. Brian Wentzel. 440-244-6286.
brian@firstlutheranlorain.org.
Sunday, December 4 at 4:00 p.m.: Church of the Covenant, 11205 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106.
www.CovenantWeb.org. 216.421.0482. CircleFest Carol Sing. The entire family is invited to enjoy holiday music and sing-along carols featuring the CWRU Concert Choir, Windsong Chorus, the Covenant Choir and Handbells, and the University Circle Symphony Orchestra. Christmas Cookie Reception. Free Admission.
Monday, December 5 at 8:00 p.m.: St. Sebastian, 476 Mull Ave., Akron, Ohio 44320. VOCI, Inc. (Voices of Canton, Inc.) in concert on Monday, December 5 at 8 p.m. at St. Sebastian Church. Featuring holiday music. Free and open to the public
Tuesday, December 6 at 8:00 p.m.: Plymouth Church, 2860 Coventry Rd., Cleveland, OH; 216.921.3510 x 34. Miro Quartet. Presented by the Cleveland Chamber Music Society. Tickets are required and available online at
ticketsales@clevelandchambermusic.org.
Wednesday, December 7 at 7:30 p.m.: Fairmount Presbyterian Church, 2757 Fairmount Blvd, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118, 216.321.5800.
www.fairmountchurch.org. CityMusic Cleveland Concert. Conductor Joel Smirnoff, soloist Joan Kwuon, and the orchestra present Corelli's Christmas Concerto (Grosso) Op.6, no.8, Dvorak's Serenade for Strings and Bernstein's Serenade.
Saturday, December 10 and Saturday, December 17 at 8:00p.m.: First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland, 3630 Fairmount Boulevard at Eaton Road, Shaker Heights, Ohio. Apollo's Fire. Sanctum Mysterium, a Celtic Christmas.
Sunday, December 11 at 10:30 a.m.: Church of the Saviour, 2537 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118, 216.321.8880.
www.chsaviour.org. Lessons and Carols. Seven choirs, brass, organ and timpani. Free-will offering. Free lighted parking, handicapped accessible.
Sunday, December 11 at 11:00 a.m.: Fairmount Presbyterian Church, 2757 Fairmount Blvd., Cleveland Heights, OH 44118, 216.321.5800
www.fairmountchurch.org. Handel's MESSIAH, Part One. The Fairmount Choir, soloists, and orchestra present the Advent and Christmas portions of Handel's beloved oratorio during morning worship.
Sunday, December 11 at 3:30 p.m.: St. Sebastian, 476 Mull Ave., Akron, Ohio 44320. Ceremony of Lessons and Carols, featuring the Parish Choir, Praise and Worship Ensemble, Cherub and Seraphim Choirs, Handbell Choir and Gregorian Schola. Featuring music of Mendelssohn, Ord, Rachmaninoff andDanner. Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
Sunday, December 11 at 4:00 p.m.: Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2031 West 30th St., Cleveland. CONTACT: Florence Mustric: 216.321.1393. An Advent and Christmas Festival! Some of our most musical friends, including Linda Kempke, will lead a festival of favorites. Come listen and join in the singing!
Sunday, December 11 at 4:00 p.m.: First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland, 3630 Fairmount Boulevard at Eaton Road, Shaker Heights, Ohio. Lessons and Carols.