Opera Western Reserve and Stambaugh Auditorium are presenting a YouTube broadcast of the 2018 Opera Western Reserve Performance of Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, on Friday, May 29th, a 7 pm. This performance is directed by David Vosburgh and and music is directed by Susan Davenny Wyner. Featured singers are Marian Vogel as Butterfly and Jesus Daniel Hernandez as Pinkerton. Links can be found on WYSU's Community Calendar at wysu.org in this PSA on May 29.
The Stambaugh Chorus is hosting a Virtual Concert of its 2016 Spring Concert: Giving Voice to Peace II, on Zoom, featuring Gabriel Faure's Requiem, on Friday, May 15. The Zoom meeting opens at 6:30 pm, with the concert beginning at 7 pm. Meeting ID and password can be found at stambaughchorus.org, and on the WYSU Community Calendar at wysu.org. More concert information at stambaughchorus.org.
The Canton Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2020-2021 MasterWorks season. In honor of Music Director, Gerhardt Zimmermann's 40th season with the Symphony, they will be celebrating appropriately with some of his favorites. Detailed information about the Canton Symphony Orchestra's 2020-2021 MasterWorks Series, and season subscriptions, are now available at 'Canton Symphony dot org', or at 330-452-2094. Single tickets will go on sale July 1.
St. John's Episcopal Church and WYSU-FM present Witches:Revered and Reviled, a concert featuring Burning River Baroque, on Friday, July 10, at 7:00 pm, at St. John's church, on Wick Avenue, in Youngstown. Burning River Baroque creates Baroque music programs that inspire dialogue about contemporary social issues. Witches: Revered and Reviled explores repertoire that tells the stories of Circe, the Witch of Endor, and the Furies, in a broad range of national styles and traditions of the 17th century.
Opera Western Reserve presents Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata, on Friday, November 13 at 7:30 pm, in Stambaugh Auditorium, on Fifth Avenue, in Youngstown. The opera features some of Verdi's most beautiful arias, and is his most performed opera. Tickets available at stambaughauditorium.com.
YSU Dana School of Music presents YSU professor of violin Joseph Kromholz performing Johann Sebastian Bach's complete works for solo violin over two recitals this weekend -- The Sonatas, this evening at7:30; and The Partitas, on Sunday, March 1, at 3 pm. Both recitals take place in the Bliss Recital Hall, on Wick Avenue, on the YSU campus.
Stambaugh Auditorium presents a recital featuring Organist Thomas Murray, on Sunday, March 15, at 4 pm, at Stambaugh Auditorium, on Fifth Avenue, in Youngstown. Murray is Professor of Music at Yale, a former American Guild of Organists International Artist of the Year, and has appeared in England, Japan, South America, and Australia, and all over continental Europe. Tickets at stambaughauditorium.com.
Arts & Education at the Hoyt in New Castle presents Salon to the Shetl (sh-state-l): Works for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano, by Igor Stravinsky, Aram Khachaturinan, and Paul Schoenfield, on Thursday, March 12, at 7 pm. The program features Nanette Kaplan Solomom, Janice Coppola and Roy (zonna). More information at hoytartcenter.org
The New Music Guild will host violinist Galo Arboleda Solorzano and pianist Jacob Bernhardt at its Annual Winter Concerts, Friday, February 21, at 7 pm, at Holy Apostles Parish: Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church, 421 Covington Street in downtown Youngstown; and Saturday, February 22nd, at 7 pm, at Jefferson Congregational Church , 41 East Jefferson Street, in Jefferson, Ohio. [Solorzano and Bernhardt will perform works by Grieg, Bach, Robert Rollin, and others.]
Thiel College presents the Con Spirito Concert Series featuring the New Orford String Quartet, on Monday, March 9, at 7 pm, at the David Johnson Memorial Chapel, on the Thiel College campus, in Greenville. The concert is free and open to the public.
