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Contact: Rebecca Wilson 330-524-2067; rswilson@raex.com

SPRING BROWNBAG CONCERTS INCLUDE JAZZFEST, LUTE, AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

CLEVELAND—The 26th year of free Wednesday noontime Brownbag Concerts at Trinity Cathedral continues this spring, beginning April 7.

The concert series' winter hiatus was longer than usual this year. Music & Performing Arts staff have spent the past several weeks in Buenos Aires, Argentina preparing for South American performances of Dido & Aeneas and Gianni Schicchi with students from the Oberlin Conservatory and the Instituto Superior de Arte of the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. The productions played to two sold-out houses at Trinity in January.

Brownbag Concerts resume April 7 and continue through June 2. The Music & Performing Arts spring season also includes two evening concerts, on April 9 and April 27. Admission to the concerts, both noontime and evening, is free; a freewill offering is collected. All concerts take place at Trinity Cathedral at E. 22 and Euclid in downtown Cleveland. Parking for $3 is available in Trinity's lighted lot, adjacent to the building off Prospect.

Noontime concerts are in the Cathedral nave; evening concerts take place in the Gallery at Trinity Commons. New this spring, Artistic Director Daniel Hathaway will present Brownbag Concert pre-concert talks from 11:30 AM-11:55 AM in the Gallery.

Noontime concertgoers are invited to bring a lunch and share coffee and tea free of charge or buy a catered lunch for $5, available from 11:45 AM.

Wednesday, April 7, 12:10 PM
Daniel Hathaway, organ
Mendelssohn's Sonata in F, op. 65, no. 1,
Johann Sebastian Bach O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig
Cèsar Franck Chorale No. 3 in A minor

Wednesday, April 14, 12:10 PM
The Kenny Davis Quartet
Tri-C JazzFest Concert
Davis, a member of the Oberlin Jazz Faculty Ensemble and a familiar accompanist to jazz and Motown legends across the world, performs with his quartet.

Wednesday, April 21, 12: 10 PM
Don Braden and Tri-C Jazz Studies Students
Tri-C JazzFest Concert
Tri-C JazzFest 2004 Artist in Residence performs with students as part of Jazz Fest. Braden has toured the world with jazz greats Betty Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Tony Williams and many others. He has produced more than sixty CDs as sideman and leader and received the 2000 Doris Duke Foundation New Works grant.

Wednesday, April 28, 12:10 PM
Ronn McFarlane & Kenneth Be, lutes
Duets and solos from 16th-18th century England, Italy and France, including John Dowland's Invention for two to play upon one lute. The Washington Post said "Ronn McFarlane's talent is comparable to James Galway's for the flute or Yo-Yo Ma's for the cello."

Wednesday, May 5, 12:10 PM
The Living Legacy Project with students of the DePaul Young Parent Program
The DePaul Young Parent Program provides education and support for young mothers in the Cleveland Municipal Schools. Now in its fourth production, the Living Legacy Project presents these young women on stage, depicting their own lives through original drama, music, and words. Rasheryl McCreary, directing.

Wednesday, May 12, 12:10 PM
Daniel Hathaway, organ
Duo ANIME, marimba and percussion
Music for marimba, percussion & organ, including Paul Creston's Meditation, Nebojsa Zivkovic's ANBA and Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Violins in A Minor.

Wednesday, May 19, 12:10 PM
Trinity Chamber Players
Susan Britton, violin; Linda Atherton, cello; Elizabeth De Mio, piano
Kodaly's Duet for Violin & Cello and Saint-Saëns' Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, op. 92

Wednesday, May 26, 12:10 PM
Trinity Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Hathaway, conducting
Elizabeth De Mio, piano
Maurice Ravel's Pavane and Piano Concerto in G

Wednesday, June 2, 12:10 PM
Poetry of Life from the African Diaspora
Beverly Jacobs, narrator
Trinity Chamber Players
Lyrics by James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes and others, with musical background and interludes.

Evening Concerts:

Sacred Concert for Good Friday
Friday, April 9th at 7:30 PM
Trinity Cathedral Choir and Trinity Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Hathaway, conducting
A rare performance of Joseph Haydn's early masterpiece, Stabat Mater, paired with Scottish composer James MacMillan's moving Seven Last Words (1994).

Tuesday, April 27th at 8 PM
Ronn McFarlane & Kenneth Be, lutes
Duets from 16th-18th century England, Germany and France. In the Gallery at Trinity Commons.

Music & Performing Arts at Trinity Cathedral is an independent organization that seeks to enrich the life of the cathedral's community and neighborhood through music and performing arts. For more information on Music & Performing Arts at Trinity Cathedral, please call 216-579-9745 or visit www.mandpa.org.

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