BlueWater Chamber Orchestra presents "Taking Flight"

Church of the Covenant

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• Date Saturday, May 07, 2022
• Time 7:30PM

Built in 1911, the Church of the Covenant was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is a Presbyterian Church. more

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BlueWater Chamber Orchestra continues its spring season on Saturday, May 7, 2022, with an uplifting program entitled “Taking Flight.” The 7:30 PM performance is at Church of the Covenant, 11205 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, located in University Circle. Cleveland Orchestra Assistant Principal Flutist Jessica Sindell will play Mozart’s concerto in D major. Artistic Director Daniel Meyer will conduct. Also on the program are Hillary Tann’s With the Heather and Small Birds and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 in D Major.

Sometimes music can seem so effortlessly crafted that it’s simply gliding in the air. Our composers in May apply a deft touch and a love for natural settings in their offerings. Welsh-born Hilary Tann combines the luminous colors of winds and strings to evoke a distinctly airborne setting in With the Heather and Small Birds. Then The Cleveland Orchestra’s Jessica Sindell makes her BlueWater Chamber Orchestra debut in the music of Mozart—his Concerto in D Major—filled with delightful flights of fancy and impressionable melodies. We complete our concert with the energetic and supremely confident music of Beethoven’s Second Symphony. While still owing a great debt to his classical models of Haydn and Mozart, Beethoven clearly strikes his own flight plan for music that reveals the heart of a hero.

As Music Director of the Erie Philharmonic, Artistic Director of the Westmoreland Symphony, and Director of Orchestral Activities at Duquesne University, BlueWater Artistic Director Daniel Meyer has reinvigorated orchestras with his innovative programs, engaging presence and keen musical intellect. A native of Cleveland, he is also Music Director of the Lakeside Symphony at Lakeside Chautauqua. He is a frequent guest on the podiums of Pittsburgh, Rochester, Detroit, Indianapolis, among many others. Mr. Meyer is also committed to educational outreach for audiences of all ages.

Jessica Sindell joined The Cleveland Orchestra in October 2018 after being the solo piccolo player of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Upon graduating from the Eastman School of Music, she won her very first orchestral audition at the age of 22 to be principal flute of the Oregon Symphony. Ms. Sindell has been performing with the Lake Tahoe Music Festival orchestra since 2012 and acted as principal with the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego as well as the Colorado Music Festival. She has also performed and recorded at the new Tippet Rise Arts Center. A Cleveland native, Jessica Sindell was a member of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (2005-07) and is a high school graduate of Western Reserve Academy.

Welsh-born composer, Hilary Tann, lives in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York where she is the John Howard Payne Professor of Music Emerita at Union College, Schenectady. Her compositions have been widely performed and recorded by ensembles such as the European Women’s Orchestra, Tenebrae, Lontano, Marsyas Trio, Thai Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Composer-residencies include the 2011 Eastman School of Music Women in Music Festival, 2013 Women Composers Festival of Hartford, and 2015 Welsh Music Center. Praised for its lyricism (“beautiful, lyrical work” – Classical Music Web) and formal balance (“In the formal balance of this music, there is great beauty ...” – Welsh Music), her music is influenced by a strong identification with the natural world. She is a published haiku poet and a deep interest in the traditional music of Japan has led to private study of the shakuhachi and guest visits to Japan, Korea, and China. A recent review of her string quartet, And The Snow Did Lie, states “Tann’s music is shimmering and weightless, effective and moving ... it reinforces the grounded spiritual ecstasy that is Tann’s distinctive musical outlook” (J. Dalton, Albany Times Union, 5/24/20).

BlueWater Chamber Orchestra is a group of professional, local, world-class musicians committed to bringing a transformative musical experience directly into the neighborhoods of NE Ohio. Dedicated to engaging new and diverse audiences through high-level educational programming, community outreach, collaborative partnerships, and artistic excellence, BlueWater shares the luminous world of inspiring music in an inviting and accessible manner. Critics have acknowledged BlueWater as “essential contributors to Cleveland’s classical music scene” and acclaim “the brilliance and professionalism that has become a trademark of BlueWater’s performances.”

The family friendly concert will be played without intermission. Church of the Covenant is wheelchair accessible.

To welcome audiences back to live performances, BlueWater Chamber Orchestra is offering this concert as “Pay-What-You-Wish.” A $20 admission is suggested. The church and orchestra have a COVID policy of masks and social distancing. Vaccination cards are no longer required and masks are strongly recommended. The Church of the Covenant has set the seating for social distancing.

BlueWater Chamber Orchestra is supported by grants from the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, Ohio Arts Council, John P. Murphy Foundation, and Kulas Foundation.