WCLV Arts Calendar
If your organization is planning an event you would like us to consider adding to the WCLV Arts Calendar, submit detailed information to John Simna via email.
Abrepaso Flamenco
Abrepaso Flamenco is a Cleveland-based flamenco company. They'll present Navidad Flamenca: Holiday Tablao and Recital on Sunday afternoon, December 15th, at the Parma-Snow Branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library.
Akron Art Museum
Current shows at the Akron Art Museum you can see the exhibit called GLow: Neon and Light through February 9th next year. The exhibits Zeerak Ahmed: Mother, I Am Compelled to Leave and Where We Live: Photographs of Human Spaces continue through December 29th.
Akron Symphonic Winds
The Akron Symphonic Winds will give two holiday performances this season. On Sunday afternoon, December 15th, they'll be Brush High School Auditorium, and on Tuesday evening, December 17th at Chapel, Green Campus on Raber Road in the city of Green. 330 - 896 - 6621
Akron Symphony
The Akron Symphony will present its Holiday Pops program on Friday evening, December 13th at AKron's E. J. Thomas Hall. 330-535-8131
Apollo's Fire
In December, Apollo's Fire will have two holiday programs - Wassail, and Irish-Appalachian Christmas December 3rd through 8th, and Handel's Messiah December 10th through 14th.
Baldwin Wallace
Here are some of the events at Baldwin Wallace in December. On Friday evening, December 6th, the Baldwin Wallace Symphony Orchestrs and Symphonic Wind Ensemble will share a program in Gamble Auditorium that will include the Symphony No. 1 by Brahms. The Conservatory's annual Holiday Concert will take place on Saturday afternoon, December 7th, featuring a variety of Conservatory ensembles performing festive selections.
And on Sunday, December 8th, there'll be two holiday performances by the BW Community Arts School Men's Chorus.
Beck Center
At Lakewood's Beck Center, you can view the exhibition called Art Treasures 2024. The show focuses on works by local visual artists in a variety of media including paintings, jewelry, sculptures, drawings, collages. and more. It's on display through December 30th.
BlueWater Chamber Orchestra
On Saturday evening, November 23rd, Daniel Meyer conducts the next concert by the BlueWater Chamber Orchestra at the Church of the Covenant in University Circle. The program will include Gerald Finzi's Love's Labour's Lost Suite, The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Haydn's last Symphony, No. 103, one of his London Symphonies. There's also a preview performance on Friday evening, November 22nd at Rocky River Presbyterian Church.
Bop Stop
Coming to the Bop Stop, on Wednesday the 20th you can hear Brent Kirby's 10X3 Songwriter/Band Showcase. Thursday the 21st, it's Cortex, presented in partnership with New Ghosts. Ron Davis will be featured with Artists in the Night on Friday the 22nd, while the group Blue Lunch celebrates its 40th anniversary on Saturday the 23rd. Pat Harris will perform on Sunday the 24th.
Chopin Institute of Ohio
On Tuesday evening, November 26th the Fryderyk Chopin Institute of Ohio Chopin Institute will present its Inaugaration Concert: Sound of Warsaw, with Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2, as well as Richard Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto as well as other music. That concert will take place at the Dodero Center for Performing Arts at Gilmour Academy. 216 - 321- 0024
Clague Playhouse
Clague Playhouse presents Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, a sequel set two years after Pride and Prejudice. The show runs through Sunday, December 8th. 440-331-0403
Cleveland Ballet
Cleveland Ballet will perform The Nutcracker at the Connor Palace Theatre in Playhouse Square. There will be evening and matinee performances
December 13th through 22nd.
Cleveland Cinematheque
At the Cleveland Cinemateque, the Experimental Showcase series continues with Ann Arbor Film Festival Touring Program 2. Filmmaker Larry Gottheim will take part in an audience Q&A after a screening of a feature called Films by Larry Gottheim.
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra
The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra will continue to celebrate its 40th season by welcoming home vocalist and pianist Kate Reid, who grew up in Cuyahoga Falls, and is now is the head of the vocal jazz department at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. She'll celebrate the holiday season with the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra on Friday evening, December 6th, at the Maltz Performing Arts Center in University Circle.
Cleveland Museum of Art
Picturing the Border is a new exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art. It features more than four dozen photographs, showing that Latinx, Chicano/a, and Mexican photographers have significantly rethought what defines citizenship, nationality, family, migration, and the border beyond traditional frameworks. The exhibition in the Mark Schwartz and Bettina Katz Photography Gallery will be on view through January 5.
A new free exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Gallery 115 is Creation, Birth, and Rebirth, continuing until July 27th next year. It explores some of the fundamental moments in the sacred narratives of the medieval world: the creation of the universe, the birth of its gods and its humans, and visions of the end of life conceived as a new beginning.
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History and the Cleveland Institute of Music have joined forces to present a series of free recitals at noon every Thursday and Friday through November. in the museum's newly renovated visitor hall. The series will highlight the piano but in November will also feature other larger ensembles.
Cleveland Orchestra
On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, November 21st, 22nd and 23rd at Severance Music Center. Santtu-Matias Rouvali will make his Cleveland Orchestra debut conducting Nielsen’s Overture to Maskarade, Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1, and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with violinist Stefan Jackiw.
In the concerts of November 29th through December 1st, David Robertson will be the Guest Conductor and Marc-André Hamelin the piano soloist in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. That all-American program also includes music of Copland and Ellington.
Pianist Kiril Gerstein will perform a solo recital at Mandel Concert Hall on Wednesday evening, December 4th, with music by Schumann, Ravel, Liszt and others.
Emmanuel Ax will be the soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 on December 5th, 6th and 7th. Pablo Heras-Cassdo will lead the concerts, which also include the 10th Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, under Music Director Daniel Reith, will perform Lili Boulanger’s D’un Matin de Printemps, Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 on Sunday afternoon, November 24th at Severance Music Center.
Cleveland Philharmonic
The Cleveland Philharmonic's Holiday concert will include Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending, as well as Corelli's Christmas Concerto, Leopold Mozart’s Sleigh Ride, Prokofiev’s Troika, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Christmas Overture, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Christmas Eve Suite. There'll be two performances, on Saturday evening at Cleveland State University, and Sunday afternoon, at the Westlake Performing Arts Center.
Cleveland Pops
Playhouse Square presents a Cleveland tradition, the Cleveland Pops Orchestra and Chorus in its annual holiday Pops concert. There'll be traditional holiday music, a singalong and Dancing Santas. They'll perform twice in the Connor Palace Theater in Playhouse Square on Sunday, December 1st.
Cleveland Silent Film Festival
The Cleveland Silent Film Festival has two events scheduled. On Saturday November 23rd, you can see Grass, a 1925 documentary chronicling the annual migration of the Bakhtiari people as they seek better pasture for their animals. The film will be accompanied by a live original score as performed by Mahtab Nadalian on the santour, a classical Persian version of a dulcimer. And on Sunday, November 24th, it's a program of holiday-themed shorts such as Laurel and Hardy’s Big Business and Buster Keaton’s One Week.
Cuyahoga Falls Library
At the Cuyahoga Falls Library, author Bryan Van Sweringen will lead a discussion of his book, HistoriCity or Fragments of Berlin on Thursday evening, December 5th.
Dunham Tavern
At Dunham Tavern, there'll be two readings of Charles Dicken's A Chritmas Carol, on Saturday and Sunday afternoon, December 14th and 15th by The Lantern Theater, followed by Christmas carols sung by all.
Fairlawn Lutheran Church
On Sunday afternoon, December 8th at Akron's Fairlawn Lutheran Church, organist Gary Pinter will lead the Fairlawn Choir, vocal soloists and brass quartet in a Festival of Lessons and Carols.
Federated Church
Federated Church in Chagrin Falls will present The King's Brass Christmas Celebration on Sunday afternoon, December 22nd in a special Christmas Celebration concert.
Great Lakes Theater
Great Lakes Theater will stage the 36th anniversary production of A Christmas Carol at the Mimi Ohio Theatre in Playhouse Square November 23rd through December 22nd. 216-241-6000
Heights Chamber Orchestra
The next concert of the Heights Chamber Orchestra will feature violinist Amy Lee as soloist in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Heights Chamber Orchestra led by Music Director Travis Jurgens. The program on Sunday afternoon, November 24th, will take place at Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, and will also include Vasily Kalinnikov’s Symphony No. 1 in g.
Lake Erie Wind Quintet
The Lake Erie Wind Quintet's holiday concert is called Rudolph the Red-Nosed Clarinetist, featuring seasonal favorites and arrangements on Sunday afternoon, December 1st at Lakewood Presbyterian Church.
Les Delices
Next from Les Delices is a program called Fourteenth Century Avant Garde, featuring music by Guillaume de Machaut, Jacob Senleches, and Johannes Suzoy. There will be three performances, November 22nd, 23rd and 24th at
Venues in Hudson, Cleveland, and Cleveland Heights
Maelstrom Collaborative Arts
Maelstrom Collaborative Arts is a performance space at West 54th and Detroit.
This Fall, Maelstrom will be taken over by artists presenting storytelling experiences, tear-jerking performances, and poetry/dance/music fusions.
November 22nd through 24th, it's Naomi Columna's Gathering Aftertastes, an episodic evening of poetry performed in various mediums, from musical settings of texts, performance and movement work, to video poems with live scoring.
Nightlight Cinema
The Nightlight is a non-profit arthouse cinema, located in Downtown Akron. It has been making indie films available since 2014. The schedule will include A Different Man, The Exorcism of Saint Patrick, Frankie Freako, Shaun of the Dead and Psycho.
North Coast Men's Chorus
The North Coast Men's Chorus will give two performances of the groups holiday concert, called It Isn't Christmas Until... on Saturday evening, December 14th and Sunday afternoon, December 15th, at the Maltz Performing Arts Center. It's a mix of holiday classics and some unexpected songs as well.
Oberlin Artist Recital Series
The Oberlin Artist Recital Series will present Seckou Keita, a master of the kora, a west african instrument which resembles both a harp and a lute in sound. The performance is on Saturday evening, December 7th in Finney Chapel.
Renovare Music
Join the string trio Renovare Music for an immersive experience of instrumental music, poetry, narratives, and original documentary songs written collaboratively with members of the community, They'll be joined by guests the poet “Vision” (Nailah Muhammad), and vocalists Salina Turner and Fred Lee. The program is called Embrace and takes place at the Maltz Performing Arts Center on Thursday evening, November 21st RSVP is requested. Livestream is available
Saint James Church Lakewood
On Sunday afternoon, November 24th, the Blue Water String Quartet will perform Beethoven's String Quartet No. 10 in Eb, Joseph Haydn's String Quartet in D, and, Astor Piazzolla's Ave Maria at Saint James Church in Lakewood.
Snowbelt Symphony
The Snowbelt Symphony Orchestra will present its annual holiday concert on Thursday evening, December 12th at Lake Catholic High School in Mentor. The concert will popular Christmas favorites, selections from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, and many favorite traditional carols. Vocalist Emily Stack will join the orchestra.
Stars in the Classics
Musical Upcoming Stars in the Classics , or M.U.S.i.C, will present a pair of holiday concerts on December 4th and 7th. The December 4th program will take place in concert will take place in the atrium of the Cleveland Museum of Art and will include music by Saint-Saëns, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Fanny Mendelssohn and others. On Saturday, December 7th, they'll perform in the sanctuary of the Church of the Western Reserve. That program will include Mozart, Debussy, Tchaikovsky and others.
Trinity Lutheran Church
The Wednesday Noontime Music Near the Market continues at Trinity Lutheran Church on Lorain Road at West 30th Street. On November 27th, guest organist Linda Kempke will present a program called Thanksgiving and Praise.
Tuesday Musical
Tuesday Musical’s Akron Concert Series will next feature pianist Simone Dinnerstein. She'll present a solo recital at E. J. Thomas Hall featuring music by Bach, Ramaeu, Keith Jarrett, and more on Tuesday evening, November 19th.
And mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato will join the four-voice a cappella group Kings Return and pianist Craig Terry in a holiday program for Tuesday Musical at EJ Thomas Hall on Tuesday, December 3rd.
University of Akron
The University of Akron Dance Company Fall Concert will take place on Friday and Saturday, November 22nd and 23rd in the Sandefur Theatre of Guzzetta Hall at the University of Akron. On Wednesday evening, December 4th, Michelle Bell and Galen Karriker conduct the holiday concert by the
Concert Band and Symphony Band. On Sunday, December 8th, UA’s Choral and Brass programs join together for a holiday program and Akron's First Congregational Church. On Sunday afternoon, December 15th, there'll be a program of Community Horn and Trombone Holiday Carols at
Guzzetta Recital Hall. And on Saturday, December 21st it's Akron's Tuba Christmas with two performance at E. J. Thomas Hall.
Wolf's Gallery
Wolf's Gallery has an exhibit celebrating the Cleveland School and featuring the collection of the late Albert Wasserman, with more than 100 works including oil paintings, watercolors, ceramic works, and bronze and glass sculpture available. The show will continue through November 30th.
Weathervane Playhouse
In Akron, Weathervane Playhouse presents Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice as part of its 90th season. Performances will run November 21st through December 22nd.
West Shore Chorale
Cleveland West Shore Chorale and Orchestra will perform its annual Holiday Concert called Joyful Voices, Jubilant Sounds, on Sunday evening, December 1st, at Rocky River United Methodist Church on Detroit Road in Rocky River. Artistic Director, Michael K. Lisi will conduct.
Workshop Players
In Amherst, the Workshop Players present A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol. The show recreates the old art of live radio complete with 1940’s style commercials. Performances are Thursday through Saturday evenings November 14th through 23rd with Sunday matinees on the 16th and 24th.