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.
April 17th: Ecko Ringers, handbell duet
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 February 14. 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.
April 3: Robert Thompson, baritone; David Gooding, keyboards; Music of Lent and Easter
April 10: The Highland Quintet
April 17: David Gooding, organ; Bach, Franck, and Vierne
Wednesdays: Music Near the Market at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2031 West 30th St., Cleveland. CONTACT: Florence Mustric: 216.321.1393. Featuring the world-famous von Beckerath organ. FREE concerts AT NOON on Wednesdays.
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. Please join us this year as we celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Brownbag Concert Series - a Music and Art at Trinity Cathedral tradition that began in 1976. Music and Art at Trinity Cathedral is offering the opportunity to sponsor a Brownbag Concert "in honor" or "in memory" of someone special. Sponsorship levels begin at $500. For information, contact Todd Wilson, 216-774-0421.
April 4: Holy Week No Concert
April 11: Case Collegium Musicum & Case Baroque Ensembles. Debra Nagy and Julie Andrijeski, directors. Case's talented singers and instrumentalists bring us a program of 17th-century masterworks.
April 18: CSU Concert Band, with Howard Meeker, director. This remarkable band will provide sonic thrills filling the Cathedral!
Friday, March 30 at 7:30 p.m.: Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44115. Cleveland Piano Competition Benefit Concert. The Cleveland debut of the Westhuizen Duo, featuring Executive Director Pierre van der Westhuizen in performance with his wife, pianist Sophia van der Westhuizen. The duo has been performing together for more than 10 years, and has received critical acclaim across the U.S., Europe, and South Africa. Tickets: clevelandpiano.org
Sunday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m.: Forest Hill Church, 3031 Monticello Blvd. at Lee, Cleveland Hts., Ohio. 216.321.2660. www.fhcpresb.org. Swing to the Lord a New Song. Featuring sacred works written in jazz styles, this evening will feature three choirs (Anne Wilson, director) accompanied by a Cleveland Jazz Orchestra combo: trombonist Paul Ferguson, trumpeter Jack Schantz, pianist Rock Wehrmann, Bassist Dave Morgan, drummer Val Kent. Also appearing will be vocalist Taylor Young singing the premiere of "In Remembrance" by Anne Wilson. Free-will offering. Festive reception. Easy parking.
Friday, April 6 at 7:00 p.m.: First Lutheran Church, 603 Washington Ave., Lorain, Ohio. Good Friday Service. Following in the tradition of Schütz, Bach, and Distler, First Lutheran's Director of Music Brian Wentzel has composed a musical setting of the Passion story for choir and soloists. This Passion according to St. John will be sung by the church choir as the centerpiece of the service. The choir will also sing chant, hymns, and The Solemn Reproaches of the Cross, also in an arrangement by Mr. Wentzel.
Brian Wentzel, MSM, FAGO, has served as Director of Music at First Lutheran since 2006. At First Lutheran Brian has developed the FIRST·music series, and was instrumental in procuring a Historic Organ Citation for the church's organ, all while remaining focused on the core mission of leading congregational singing. Brian also is the dean of the Lorain County Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, sings with Apollo's Fire, and serves on the worship committee of the Northeastern Ohio Synod of the ELCA. His first published composition is forthcoming from Augsburg Fortress Publishers.
This concert is free and open to the public. It is part of First Lutheran's FIRST·music concert series, whose goal comes from the church's vision statement: to "use our musical resources to enhance our experience of God and as a gift to the community." First Lutheran Church is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in downtown Lorain, known for good music and social service.
Friday, April 6 at 7:30 p.m.: Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115. 216.771.3630. www.trinitycleveland.org. A highlight of our spring program is the Good Friday Concert on April 6 at 7:30 p.m. - PASSIO by Arvo Pärt. This powerful and concentrated setting of the Passion according to John was written by famed Estonian composer Arvo Pärt in 1982.
Sunday, April 15 at 1:15 p.m.: Fairmount Presbyterian Church, 2757 Fairmount Blvd., Cleveland Heights, OH 44118, 216.321.5800. www.fairmountchurch.org. Brunch & "Music for One or Two." Pittsburgh classical guitarist Matthew Korbanic and Fairmount soloist Maribeth Crawford present enticing duet and solo literature by Britten, Rodrigo, and Villa-Lobos. Join us for brunch at 12:15.
Sunday, April 15 at 4:00 p.m.: St. Sebastian Church, Zwisler Hall, 500 Mull Avenue, Akron, Ohio 44320. 2012 Spring Ring. Handbell Festival. Guest conductor Chuck Kobb (Summit Bells). Contact Lynn Frey-Steward, St. Sebastian, 330.836.2233 or 330.244.8808 for more information.
Sunday, April 15 at 5:00 p.m.: Westminster Church, 1250 W. Exchange Street, Akron, Ohio 44313. 330.836.2226. www.westminsterakron.com. OSU Men's Glee Club.
