Event Calendar
Events for December 13, 2008
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Breakfast with Santa
Join us for a morning of food, crafts and fun! Santa will
arrive promptly at 9:45 a.m.
$5 per adult; $3 per child; Children 2 and under FREE
Maximum $20 per family (includes grandparents)
All are Welcome
Reservations and payment by Dec. 5th to Mary Ebner:
mebner@beaumontschool.org · 216.321.6265 X242
Location:
Beaumont School Dining Room
3301 North Park Boulevard
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
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1:00 PM
Workshop: "How to put on a show"
On Saturday, December 13 at 1:00 NK veterans and other young theater pros will host a free workshop,also at the UUSC, for anyone—especially young persons—who want to know “HOW TO PUT ON A SHOW.”
Dobama is in transition, now moving from Coventry into new space at the Lee Road library.
You can ask them more about that on Saturday.
And, as you will notice when we see you at the show or after, our own building offers two bare bones performance spaces (and rehearsal space) where anyone interested might PUT ON A SHOW.
Contact Joyce Brabner 216-773-0444
jbrabner@aol.com
Location:
Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland
2728 Lancashire Rd
(In Between Euclid Heights Blvd and Coventry)
Cleveland Height, OH 44118
2:00 PM
The Nutcracker, in Hi-Def at the Cedar Lee Theater
This unique interpretation of the classic ballet was filmed in the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, home of the Kirov Ballet Academy and the Nutcracker’s original stage.
The 2007 production showcases the eye-catching costumes and startling staging designed by Mikhail Shemiakin. An exhibition of Shemiakin’s costume and design sketches used in the staging of the ballet was presented in the private collections of the Russian Museum in St.Petersburg.
Two showings only:
Saturday, December 13th at 2:00 PM
Saturday, December 20th at 2:00 PM
Admission is $15 for adults and $12 for children 12 and under.
Location:
Cedar Lee Theater
At the corner of Cedar and Lee Roads
Cleveland Heights
Parking in rear
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Ringing In the Holidays
Holiday concert by the River Valley Ringers, an auditioned community handbell choir.
Location:
Lee Road Public Library
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Handel's Messiah
Jeannette Sorrell and her colleagues bring to life the music and spectacle of Handel’s Messiah Parts I, II and III. Thousands of listeners have experienced the joy of Sorrell’s interpretation of this work on national radio broadcasts. Now Apollo’s Fire brings this theatrical drama back to Northeast Ohio for a series of special performances which will be recorded for live CD release. The four acclaimed soloists and “visionary storytellers” who performed to ecstatic crowds in 2006 make their triumphant return in these performances.
AMANDA FORSYTHE soprano
ELIZABETH SHAMMASH mezzo-soprano
IAN HONEYMAN tenor
JEFFREY STRAUSS baritone
APOLLO’S SINGERS
The opportunity to hear the Apollo’s Fire Messiah is more than another hearing of a much-loved masterpiece. The size, scale, timbre and authentic of the Apollo’s Fire approach provides a singular opportunity. In the words of Music Director Jeannette Sorrell:
In the two-and-a-half centuries since Messiah was written, it has become a monument of western civilization – a musical icon of Anglo-American culture. The aesthetic of “bigger is better” has colored our impression of Messiah for nearly 200 years now, as is evidenced by some of the comments gathered from the 19th-century press by professor Howard Smither in a paper on Messiah: “I take it for granted that Messiah will now never be heard but in its improved [enlarged] condition,” (The Harmonicon, 1829), or “Whoever heard of a choir too large for Handel? Not though nations should be formed into choirs, would the true votary of Handel cry ‘Hold, enough!’“ (Musical Examiner, 1843). In 1859, Messiah was performed with a chorus of 2765 and an orchestra of 460.
In 2006, however, many of us are indeed crying, “hold, enough!” The coldness and anonymity of the high-tech age have made their mark on our society, leaving many of us with a longing for intimacy and individual personality. The fact that Apollo’s Fire performs Messiah on period instruments is not what matters. But if we can move you to tears as Susanna Cibber did – if we can make you see “All Heaven before you, and the great God himself ” – then we will have achieved real authenticity.
A pre-concert lecture with Richard Rodda begins at 7pm.
“The Messiah we’ve been waiting for”
- PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
“This Messiah sparkled. It danced. It moved. And it brought the sold-out crowd to its feet.”
- THE SUN PRESS
For tickets call 216.320.0012 or visit www.apollosfire.org.
Location:
2747 Fairmount Boulevard
Cleveland Heights, OH 44106
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