The Cleveland Orchestra Does ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ and the Rest of the Classical Music to Catch This Week | Cleveland

This week’s picks single out classical concerts that feature interesting and unusual repertoire.

– On Thursday at 7:30 at Severance Music Center, Chinese-born American composer Tan Dun leads The Cleveland Orchestra in original works — his Water Concerto & Concerto for Orchestra — plus Igor Stravinsky’s Fireworks, and Benjamin Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes. Marc Damoulakis, the Orchestra’s principal percussionist, will be featured in the Water Concerto, program to be repeated on Saturday at 8. Damoulakis previews the piece in a Cleveland Orchestra video here.

– Between those two concerts, the Orchestra will be tipping a hat to Hallowe’em on Friday at 7:30 with a screening of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas — the full film with live orchestral underscore led by Lawrence Loh.

– Also on Friday at 7:30, Timothy Weiss will conduct the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble featuring harpist Rosanna Moore, cellist Nick Photinos, percussionist Ross Karre and the Oberlin Percussion Group in Han Lash’s Form and Postlude, Pamela Z’s Raise, Christopher Stark’s Other Pines, and Carlos Carrillo’s Dueling with time, bartering for minutes of existence. Watch the live stream from Warner Concert Hall here.

– Cleveland Repertory Orchestra performs Katahj Copley’s Equinox, Anna Clyne’s This Moment, Charles Auguste de Bériot’s Scene de Ballet with violinist Ken Johnston, and Howard Hanson’s Symphony No. 3 on Saturday at 7 at Disciples Church in Cleveland Hts. Matthew Salvaggio conducts.

– And three events on Sunday should be well worth a visit.

– At 3 pm at Heights Theater, Heights Arts’ Close Encounters series presents “Ouvrage de Dame: Music for Winds by Women of the Gilded Age,” featuring works by Mélanie Hélène “Mel” Bonis, Fernande Decruck, Elsa Jacqueline Barraine, Marguerite Canal, and Louise Farrenc. The performers — members & friends of the Cleveland Orchestra — include pianist Christina Dahl, flutist Joshua Smith, oboist Frank Rosenwein, clarinetist Robert Woolfrey, bassoonist Gareth Thomas, and hornist Nathaniel Silberschlag.

– At 4 pm in Mixon Hall, the CIM New Music Ensemble hosts composer & pianist Marilyn Shrude, and saxophonist John Sampen in Arnold Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 1 (arranged by Anton Webern), and three works by Shrude: Within Silence (2012), Secrets (2004), and Within the Wall (2018/2021). Keith Fitch conducts.

– Then on Sunday at 5:30 in Guzzetta Recital Hall, the University of Akron Kulas Concert Series presents the Appalachian Chamber Music Players — cellist Katie Tertell, pianist Yaron Kohlberg, violinist Domenic Salerni, and clarinetist Stanislav Golovin — in works by composers ranging from Johannes Brahms to Paul Schoenfield.

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

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