From Hermit Club to Hollywood: A Concert of Music by J.S. Zamecnik and Dvořák The kickoff event of the first-ever Cleveland Silent Film Festival takes place today at 3 p.m. at the Hermit Club where Isabel Trautwein leads members of the Cleveland Orchestra in a concert celebrating the music of J.S. Zamecnik, a film music pioneer, Cleveland native and protégé of renowned Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. The program includes Zamecnik chamber works written during studies with Dvořák in Prague, a masterwork from Dvořák’s American period, and colorful highlights from Zamecnik’s photoplay music that you’ll be able to hear accompanying scenes in Sunrise next Sunday at the Cinematheque. Rodney Sauer, music director of the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, will sit in on piano for Zamecnik’s Trio for Violin, Piano and Cello. Tickets cost $40, or $15 for students and seniors $15. There's also an o
Honoring Our Past Masters: The Golden Age of Cleveland Art, 1900-1945 The most ambitious showing of Cleveland masterworks in nearly thirty years, this exhibition will spotlight the achievement of Cleveland’s most remarkable artists from this period, some internationally famous, some still relatively unknown. Today's opening reception will feature a concert with Cleveland Orchestra members Isabel Trautwein (CAP 2012), Alicia Koelz and Katherine Bormann (violins), Tanya Ell (cello), and Robert Woolfrey (Clarinet), Eric Wong (viola, Cavani Quartet) and Yann Chemali (cello).Following the concert curator and art historian Henry Adams will give a special introduction to the Exhibition which runs through April 4. Tickets are required for the concert only. Light refreshments will be served. The Hay-McKinney Mansion, which will be decorated for the holidays, will be open for self guided tours throughout the afternoon.