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The Cleveland Silent Film Festival Celebrates 1926

Mike Telin — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:43:21 +0000

by Mike Telin Before there was a sound track on the film there was plenty of great live music being performed in front of the screen. Beginning on September 15 The Cleveland Silent Film Festival and Colloquium — a celebration of the expressive power of early cinema accompanied by live music — will launch its fifth […]

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DIARY: WEEKEND, Friday-Sunday, September 11-13, 2026

Daniel Hathaway — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:20:21 +0000

by Daniel Hathaway WEEKEND CLASSICAL HIGHLIGHTS: FRIDAY — 6 pm: BlueWater Chamber Orchestra Flute and Strings, Reid Gallery, Cleveland Museum of Art | 7:30 pm – Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, Sinatra and Soul, Music Box Supper Club. SATURDAY — 7 pm: Cleveland Repertory Orchestra, New Morning: Twenty-Five Years After September 11, Cuyahoga Community College Eastern Campus, […]

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DIARY: Thursday, September 10, 2026

Daniel Hathaway — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:27:40 +0000

by Daniel Hathaway Due to Labor Day, the Newsletter will be sent on Friday this week. TODAY’S ALMANAC: On this date in 1684, German organist and composer Johann Rosenmüller died at Wolfenbüttel, where he ended his career as choirmaster at the ducal court. Previously, he was organist at the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig before getting run […]

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DIARY: Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Daniel Hathaway — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:57:50 +0000

by Daniel Hathaway HAPPENING TODAY: At 12:15 noon, Florence Mustric gives a lunchtime concert on the Beckerath organ at Trinity Lutheran Church in Ohio City. At 6:30 pm, the Canton Symphony’s Summer Serenades sponsors a string quartet at the Canton Garden Center. And at 7:30 pm, the Cleveland Chamber Music Society opens its 77th season […]

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DIARY: Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Daniel Hathaway — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:27:27 +0000

by Daniel Hathaway TODAY’S ALMANAC: On this date in 1613, Italian composer Don Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, died in Naples. Distinguished for his harmonic adventures in madrigals and sacred music, Gesualdo was also notorious for having murdered his first wife and her lover after catching them in flagrante delicto. Cecil Gray and Peter Warlock […]

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WEEKEND DIARY: September 4-8, 2026

Daniel Hathaway — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:12:15 +0000

by Daniel Hathaway TODAY’S HEADLINE: Cleveland Orchestra musicians call for competitive wages, authorize strike in contract talks Read the Sept. 3 cleveland.com article by Peter Chakerian here. (Photo: Zachary Lewis) WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS: This Labor Day weekend The Cleveland Orchestra wraps up the Blossom season with three performances of “The Music of John Williams.” Conductor Sarah […]

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Cleveland Chamber Music Society opens 77th season on September 9

Daniel Hathaway — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:19:15 +0000

by Daniel Hathaway Cleveland’s oldest Chamber Music Series will ring in its 77th season on Wednesday, September 9 at 7:30 pm in Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art with a program featuring a trio of prominent Northeastern Ohio musicians. Cleveland Orchestra concertmaster Joel Link and principal horn Nathaniel Silberschlag will join pianist Dawoon […]

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Franz Welser-Möst returns to Blossom with “Summer in Vienna” (Aug. 29)

Kevin McLaughlin — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:50:24 +0000

by Kevin McLaughlin Franz Welser-Möst began saying farewell to Cleveland audiences on Saturday with music from his other home. “Summer in Vienna” marked his final Blossom Music Center appearance as music director of The Cleveland Orchestra, in the 25th and final season of a tenure that began in 2002. Richard Strauss and Mozart brought Vienna’s […]

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Franz Welser-Möst returns to The Cleveland Orchestra for passionate Summers at Severance finale (Aug. 27)

Stephanie Manning — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:46:41 +0000

by Stephanie Manning This article was originally published on Cleveland.com CLEVELAND, Ohio — The summer is almost over, which means that Franz Welser-Möst is back on the podium. The Cleveland Orchestra’s music director has historically preferred to make his appearances at the tail end of the Orchestra’s summer season, and he has scheduled himself for […]

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Jon Batiste brings his musical magic to Blossom (Aug. 20)

Kevin McLaughlin — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:41:04 +0000

by Kevin McLaughlin Jon Batiste is an eager traveler across musical borders. At Blossom Music Center on Thursday, August 20, the pianist, singer, and composer demonstrated his broad musical fluency, moving among jazz, gospel, blues, pop, and classical music in a Cleveland Orchestra program that was both exhilaratingly loose and more coherent than its variety […]

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