The Cleveland Orchestra’s Halloween Spooktacular and the Rest of the Classical Music to Catch This Week

We have a wide variety of classical music events to recommend this week.

-On Wednesday at 7 pm, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Chamber Music in the Atrium series will host the young musicians of Upcoming Stars in the Classics in “An Enchanted Program” for Halloween.

Thursday’s choices include:

– A Steel Drum Celebration with Joe Leaman and Friends (7 pm at The Bop Stop)
– CityMusic Cleveland’s October Orchestra Series with conductor Lorenzo Lopez and Cleveland Orchestra violist Eliesha Nelson featuring Cleveland composer Margaret Brouwer’s Viola Concerto (7:30 at Fairmount Presbyterian Church, repeated Friday at 7:30 at St. Noel Church in Willoughby Hills, Saturday at 7:30 at the Shrine of St. Stanislaus, and Sunday at 4:30 at Our Lady of Angels),
– On the Lorain County Community College Signature Series, pianist Ashlee Mack plays James Romig’s Still, inspired by the American Abstract Expressionist painter Clyfford Still (7:30 in Cirigliano Studio Theatre).

– On Friday, Jeri Lynne Johnson leads the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra in Carl Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto with soloist Taein Yi (7:30 at Maltz Performing Arts Center), and Trobár Medieval presents Room of Her Own: Christine de Pizan’s 15th–century Defense of Women (7 pm at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Cleveland Heights, repeated Saturday at 7 at Inlet Dance Theatre.)

And Saturday’s events include:

– The Cleveland Orchestra’s Halloween Spooktacular: Heroes & Villains! in a relaxed, sensory-friendly performance led by Daniel Reith and narrated by Eric Charnofsky. A costume contest starts one hour before the concert along with other fun pre-concert activities (2 pm at Severance Music Center, repeated on Sunday at 2)

– Cleveland Chamber Choir’s “Meditations and Mysticism,” Gregory Ristow, conducting (7 pm at Trinity Cathedral, repeated on Sunday at 4 at First Lutheran Church in Lorain)

– And Cleveland Classical Guitar Society presents Jorge Caballero performing his complete transcription of Antonín Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony (7:30 at Maltz Performing Arts Center).

For details of these and other classical events, visit the ClevelandClassical.com Concert Listings.

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