Community Calendar

On Saturday, May 3 at 7:30 PM the Cincinnati Community Orchestra ushers in summer holidays in its final concert of the season. Join the orchestra to mark graduations with the Brahms Academic Festival, and visit the seaside in Debussy’s La Mer. To round out the program, CCO music director Mark Rudoff solos in the Dvorak Cello Concerto under the baton of Maureen Hickey Haitch. The CCO performs at Church of the Saviour United Methodist, 8005 Pfeiffer Rd. Concert and parking are free. Please visit cincinnaticommunityorchestra.org for more information about the upcoming concert and the rest of the CCO season. Phone 513-317-0300.

Swiss based musicians Katharina Haun and Adam Bregman join Cincinnati based early music group, Ars Perpetuum, for a wonderful afternoon tribute to the music of the Stadtpfeiffer. This Renaissance program on period instruments takes us from the 15th to the 17th century exploring the music and roles of the town musicians in the Germanic lands. Hear a varied program of sackbuts, cornetto and recorders and enjoy insights from two of Europe's leading scholars on early brass playing.

Images of Asia have long sparked the European musical imagination. As described by European poets and composers, these images include exotic landscapes and fetishized female figures, stereotypes that remain even as the Asian diaspora has taken root and claimed citizenship all over the world. 
With three newly-commissioned song cycles by Asian American composers Justine F. Chen, Melissa Dunphy, and Kamala Sankaram, this recital asserts Asian American lived experience from the perspective of those of us who live it. As contrasted with Maurice Ravel’s “Asie,” a prime example of European musical Orientalism, these new songs describe the joys, pains, contradictions, and pride we experience as Asians living in this land we call home.

Margo Garrett leads The Fellowship of the Song’s second song workshop in a program of special requests by the Fellows.

The ten fellows of The Fellowship of the Song take the stage for the first of two scintillating programs.

Margo Garrett leads The Fellowship of the Song’s third song workshop in an all-French program.

Love, in all its forms, can be found throughout nature and in each of us. Sometimes it's sensual, blissful, unconditional. Sometimes it's surprising, crazy, carnal. No matter the moment, love is everywhere - always.

The science is undeniable: our earth's climate is changing at alarming rates, and only we have the power to curb the effects it will have on our planet. The world premiere of Lisa Neher's monumental cycle confronts this stark reality, while Ericsson Hatfield's award-winning cycle God's Worldcelebrates the natural world that we must continue to cherish and protect.

The ten fellows of The Fellowship of the Song take the stage for the second of two scintillating programs.