Close Encounters |OUVRAGE DE DAME: Music for Winds by Women

Featuring pianist Christina Dahl and wind soloists of The Cleveland Orchestra, our 18th season of this music program opens with a delightful program of all French music by women from around the turn of the 20th Century. This music is charming, engaging, and unexpected.

Close Encounters is Heights Arts’ signature Sunday afternoon chamber music series, and the first concert in this season's series features performers pianist Christina Dahl and of The Cleveland Orchestra: Joshua Smith, flute, Frank Rosenwein, oboe, Robert Woolfrey, clarinet, Gareth Thomas, bassoon, and Nathaniel Silberschlag, french horn.

These intimate Sunday afternoon concerts, curated by Cleveland Orchestra cellist Dane Johansen, are performed by some of the world's most renowned musicians. Held in unique venues and local residences, they offer a rare opportunity for audiences to experience chamber music as it was meant to be heard—up close and personal.

Mélanie Hélène "Mel" Bonis (1858-1937): Les Scènes de la forêt, op. 123 (1904)

Fernande Decruck (1896-1954): Pavane (1933) and Capriccio (1933)

Elsa Jacqueline Barraine (1910-1999): Ouvrage De Dame (1937)

Marguerite Canal (1890-1978): Sonata for violin and piano (1922) arr. Kristen Stoner

Louise Farrenc (1804-1875): Sextet in C Minor, op. 40 (1852)