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By Kerry Clawson
Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Thursday, Sep 24, 2009
Imagine picking up where the great Johann Sebastian Bach left off.
That's what Jeannette Sorrell, music director for Apollo's Fire, has done with Bach's unfinished Sinfonia/Violin Concerto in D Major, which will be performed in the ensemble's season opener Oct. 1 at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Akron. The rarely performed work will be presented as completed by Sorrell, featuring solo violinist Julie Andrijeski.
Apollo's Fire's program, called ''Gloria,'' will highlight the exuberant ''Gloria'' from Bach's B Minor Mass as well as Vivaldi's Gloria in D. The latter will be performed with the treble youth chorus Apollo's Musettes, which is meant to evoke the famous choir of orphan girls for whom Vivaldi composed the piece.
The Apollo's Singers will perform Bach's B Minor Mass, featuring soprano Sandra Simon and mezzo-soprano Meg Bragle.
The kickoff concert will be at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 1, with a pre-concert lecture by Richard Rodda at 6:30 p.m.
Full-time students under age 30 will be admitted to the Akron concert free with an ID, underwritten by the GAR Foundation.
General admission is $20-$60. Call 216-320-0012, 800-314-2535 or see http://www.apollosfire.org.
Big Apple residency
The Cleveland Orchestra announced Tuesday that it has become the first visiting orchestra to forge a multiyear commitment with the Lincoln Center Festival in New York, where it will begin a residency in 2011.
Cleveland Orchestra music director Franz Welser-Most will juxtapose works by Anton Bruckner and John Adams in four concerts in 2011.
The Lincoln Center summer residency also presents a unique opportunity for the Cleveland Orchestra to showcase its collaboration with the Vienna State Opera. Welser-Most, whose Cleveland contract extends through 2018, will become general music director of the Vienna State Opera next year.
At the 2013 and 2015 Lincoln Center Festival, the orchestra will perform in the pit for fully staged productions of the Vienna State Opera.
''The Cleveland Orchestra and I have made a long-term commitment to residency activity as well as to the operatic repertoire. We are delighted to bring to New York the full range of what we do in Cleveland, Salzburg and Miami [residency],'' Welser-Most said.
• Experiencing live classical music can be a great family outing, especially when your kids get to ''Meet the Orchestra'' at Severance Hall.
A special Cleveland Orchestra family program at 2 p.m. Sunday will introduce the orchestra ''family'' through works that showcase the string, woodwind, brass and percussion sections. Music by Beethoven, Dukas, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky will be on the program, as well as a piece by principal percussion player Richard Weiner — Perpetual Motion for Four Diverse Snare Groups.
Cleveland Orchestra music director Franz Welser-Most will appear in his first one-hour Family Concert, which is geared toward children ages 7 and older.
The fun starts with free activities at 1 p.m., including ''Musical Families with Mell Csicsila,'' where kids can see the orchestra instruments up close and learn about the conductor's job. Children also can imagine they're famous musicians in a photo opportunity on Severance Hall's main stage. Finally, little ones will have the chance to take part in a hands-on music-making experience in Smith Lobby.
Cost is $10-$23. Call 216-231-1111 or 800-686-1141 or see http://www.clevelandorchestra.com for more information.
Hanks at Hanna update
Bad news for those who have a hankering to meet the great Tom Hanks: His special event at the Hanna Theater in Cleveland Oct. 12 is sold out.
Close to 550 guests have snatched up tickets for ''Tom Hanks at the Hanna,'' a fundraiser for the Great Lakes Theater Festival.
Hanks, discovered by former GLTF artistic director Vincent Dowling, got his start there in 1977 at what was then called Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, performing in nine productions over three summers from 1977 to 1979.
Thirty years later, he's still lending his star power to the theater company. His appearance will help Great Lakes Theater Festival raise the final $546,789 in its $19.3 million capital campaign, which includes last year's renovation of the theater's new home at the Hanna and the establishment of an endowment.
Arts happenings
• Cesear's Forum will present the lovely and always entertaining Helen Welch in ''A Little Brit Different: Three Cabaret Concerts'' at Kennedy's Down Under at Playhouse Square next month. Each benefit concert for the small professional theater, which is based in Twinsburg and performs in Cleveland, will be different.
The cabarets will be the legendary songs of ''Divas'' Oct. 3; ''L'Chaim,'' a celebration of Jewish composers, lyricists and singers Oct. 10; and ''Through a Film Glass Darkly,'' songs of love, reflection and the movies Oct. 17.
Welch, a British singer, songwriter and actress, has performed with big bands in Europe, on London's West End and on Broadway. Cost is $20 for each performance or $45 for the series. Call 216-241-6000.
• The University of Akron School of Music will finish out the month with an 8 p.m. performance by the UA Symphony Orchestra on Monday at E.J. Thomas Hall with faculty pianist Mayumi Kikuchi. The program will include Barber, Mozart and Copland. Cost is $10.
The school also will offer several free concerts at Guzzetta Hall, including guest flutist John Bailey of the University of Nebraska at 3 p.m. Sunday, the UA Jazz Ensembles at 8 p.m. Tuesday and the UA Jazz Combos at 8 p.m. Sept. 30. For more information, call 330-972-7570 or visit http://www.uaevents.com.
• The Manchester Dance Ensemble will present Dance Your Socks Off, works that reflect issues of social consciousness, 2:30 p.m. Oct. 4 at the Akron-Summit County Main Library auditorium. The performance is free. The youth dance company will collect packs of socks for children and adults to donate to Haven of Rest. Call 330-245-1155.
Arts writer Kerry Clawson may be reached at 330-996-3527 or kclawson@thebeaconjournal.com.
Imagine picking up where the great Johann Sebastian Bach left off.
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