Mark S. Jordan

The Canton Symphony, Ohio’s hidden gem, shines in Vaughan Williams’s Sea Symphony

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United StatesUnited States Vaughan Williams, Boyle – ‘Voyage on the High Seas’: Dashon Burton (bass-baritone), Bonnie Frauenthal (soprano), Canton Symphony Chorus (director: Doug Beery), Mount Union Concert Choir (director; Beth Polen), Canton Symphony Orchestra / Matthew Jenkins Jaroszewicz (conductor). Umstattd Hall at Zimmermann Symphony Center, Canton, 26.4.2025. (MSJ)

Matthew Jenkins Jaroszewicz conducts Ina Boyle’s A Sea Poem © Kelly Klein Photography/CSO

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The Jerusalem Quartet plunges into the Shostakovich Cycle in Cleveland

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United StatesUnited States Shostakovich Cycle [I]: Jerusalem Quartet (Alexander Pavlosky, Sergei Bresler [violins], Ori Kam [(viola], Kyril Zlotnikov [cello]). Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 21.4.2025. (MSJ)

Jerusalem Quartet playing Shostakovich in Cleveland © Ron Werman/CCMS

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Apollo’s Fire and vocalists find grace and glory in Bach’s Mass in B minor

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United StatesUnited States J. S. Bach, Mass in B minor: Rebecca Myers (soprano), Aryssa Leigh Burrs, Gabriela Estephanie Solís (mezzo-sopranos), Emily Marvosh (contralto), Jacob Perry (tenor), Edward Vogel (baritone), Charles Wesley Evans (baritone), Apollo’s Fire / Jeannette Sorrell (conductor). St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Akron, Ohio, 4.4.2025. (MSJ)

Jeannette Sorrell conducts Rebecca Myers (soprano), Gabriela Estephanie Solís (mezzo-soprano) and Apollo’s Fire © Apollo’s Fire

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Jerusalem Quartet’s Cleveland Chamber Music Society Shostakovich string quartet cycle

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Jerusalem Quartet brings Shostakovich’s string quartet cycle to Cleveland

Jerusalem Quartet © Felix Broede

The mightiest string quartet cycle of the twentieth century is rarely encountered live. Indeed, it is probable that a complete cycle of the quartets of the formidable Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) has never before been presented in the American Midwest. That is changing this month when the Jerusalem Quartet brings these intense, epic works to the Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art for a five-concert series.

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