January 31, 2006—Apollo’s Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, presents “Earth, Wind and Fire,” a novel program of baroque music depicting the struggles of nature—from earthquakes to fires to volcanic eruptions—at Oberlin College’s Finney Chapel on Thursday, Feb. 9, at 7:30 p.m.
General admission tickets for the stormy weather concert, which features music by Vivaldi, Rebel, and Rameau, are $20 for adults, $18 for seniors 65 or older, and $8 for students. Tickets may be purchased through Oberlin’s Central Ticket Service box office, located in the lobby of Hall Auditorium, 67 North Main St. (on Route 58 between the Oberlin Inn and the Allen Art Museum). Box office hours are noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call 440-775-8169 to order; tickets purchased at the door on the evening of the performance are an additional $2.
The program includes J.F. Rebel’s strikingly modern suite, Les Elemens, which depicts the chaos of creation; La Tempesta di Mare (Storm at Sea) by Vivaldi, with David Greenberg as violin soloist; the concerto grosso La Follia by Vivaldi (arranged by Jeannette Sorrell AD ’90, music director of Apollo’s Fire), with violin soloists Cynthia Roberts and Julie Andrijeski; Summer from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, arranged by Sorrell and featuring her as harpsichord soloist; and the Suite from Les Indes galantes by J.P. Rameau.
Acclaimed baroque dance specialists Catherine Turocy, artistic director of the New York Baroque Dance Company, and Carlos Fittante, artistic director of BALAM Dance Theatre in New York, will bring to life the Rameau opera suite, playing various characters from French peasants to Native American Indians.
“Nature inspired baroque composers to not only their most imaginative, but often to their most virtuosic orchestral writing,” says Sorrell. “This program is an exciting demonstration of those qualities.”
Apollo’s Fire: The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra
Earth, Wind, and Fire: Music of Vivaldi, Rebel, and Rameau
Thursday, February 9 at 7:30 PM
Finney Chapel
Southwest corner of Route 511
(Lorain Street) and North Professor Street
Oberlin, OH
General Admission Tickets:
$20 adults
$18 seniors 65 or older
$ 8 students
ALL TICKETS $2 MORE WHEN PURCHASED AT THE DOOR
Central Ticket Service
(440) 775-8169
Located in the lobby of Hall Auditorium
Open Noon to 5 p.m.
Monday — Friday
Free parking throughout the Oberlin campus