The Calendar - Classical Music

This Week's Events

Classical Music
Between the Kerrytown Concert House and the University Musical Society, an energized Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra and dozens of smaller ensembles, Ann Arbor's classical music calendar has an opus for every taste.

Highlights this week:

Youth Orchestra Concert: Ann Arbor School for the Performing Arts.

"Beethoven Sonatas, Part 3": Kerrytown Concert House.

Dexter Community Orchestra.

Monday
May, 2008

6 p.m.
Youth Orchestra Concert: Ann Arbor School for the Performing Arts. Abigail Alwin directs this student ensemble in a program of classical orchestral music. Pease Auditorium, EMU campus, W. Cross at College Place, Ypsilanti. Free. Donations accepted. 995-4625.

Wednesday
May, 2008

8 p.m.
"Beethoven Sonatas, Part 3": Kerrytown Concert House. Violinist Aaron Berofsky and pianist Phillip Bush, both U-M music professors, perform Beethoven's Sonatas no. 6 in F Major, no. 8 in C Minor (Pathetique), and no. 9 in E-flat Major. KCH, 415 N. Fourth Ave. Tickets $10, $15, & $25 (students, $5). Reservations suggested. 769-2999.

Saturday
May, 2008

3 p.m.
Dexter Community Orchestra.:See review, p. 72. Donald Parrish conducts the orchestra in "Hoe-Down" from Copland's Rodeo, Ravel's arrangement of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, and the world premiere of DCO cellist and U-M music grad Erika Nelson's Locusta, a piece named after Locusta of Gaul, an infamous poisoner who allegedly killed Emperor Claudius. Also, Rachmaninoff's Concerto no. 1 in F-sharp Minor with pianist J. Bennett, winner of the DCO Young Artist Competition. Dexter Center for the Performing Arts, Dexter High School, 2200 N. Parker (south off Shield from Baker Rd.), Dexter. Free. 426-2734, 355-0725.

7 p.m.
6th Annual Taiwanese American Heritage Week Celebration Concert: Michigan Taiwanese American Organization. Local youth finalists in a MiTai music contest perform works for strings and piano. Also a performance by the U-M music school 2008 concerto competition winner, pianist Ming-Hsiu Yen. Followed by a reception. Greenhills School Campbell Center for the Performing Arts, 850 Greenhills Dr. (off Earhart). Free. 469-4010.

Sunday
May, 2008

1 p.m.
Organ Concert: Northside Presbyterian Church. Organist Geoff Stanton and others play the church's new organ. Program TBA. Northside Presbyterian, 1679 Broadway. Free. 663-5503.

2 p.m.
"The Impossible Dream": Ann Arbor Concert Band. James Nissen directs this local volunteer ensemble in a program highlighted by a performance of the first movement of Mozart's Concerto no. 2 in D Major featuring Livonia flutist Ashley Harris, winner of the Concert Band's recent young artist competition scholarship. Also, Copland's Outdoor Overture , the finale from Howard Hanson's Symphony no. 3, Grainger's Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonnie Doon, Ron Nelson's Rocky Point Holiday, and highlights from Mitch Leigh's musical Man of La Mancha. Michigan Theater. Tickets $10 (students & seniors, $5; children 12 & under, free) in advance and at the door. 434-7876.

4 p.m.
"Organ Concert": St. Thomas the Apostle Church. Lucia Campbell directs the choir, soloists, a trumpeter, and Timothy Tikker on the church's newly restored 1947 Casavant organ in a program of works by Mozart, Brahms, Thompson, Stephenson, Handel, and others. St. Thomas, State at Kingsley. Free. 761-8606.

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