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Matthew Salvaggio, Music Director and Founder

Founded in 2021, our mission is to explore the breadth of the orchestral repertoire, including new and historically excluded voices, and increase accessibility to high-quality orchestral performances.

10/12/2026

The middle piece on our November 7 program is one of the most charming works Richard Strauss ever wrote, and one of the last.

He composed the Duet-Concertino in 1947, near the end of his life, as a fond farewell to the music he loved. When he finished it, he wrote to the friend he'd written it for, his old colleague Hugo Burghauser, former principal bassoonist of the Vienna Philharmonic, with a note about what he imagined the piece to be about:

"A dancing princess is alarmed by the grotesque cavorting of a bear in imitation of her. At last she is won over to the creature and dances with it, upon which it turns into a prince."

The clarinet is the princess. The bassoon is the bear. Sound familiar? Another very different interpretation of Beauty and the Beast.

We have two extraordinary soloists joining us for this one. More on them soon.

Reserve your seat for November 7: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/tales-three-folk-traditions

10/09/2026

We’re holding auditions! We have immediate openings for section violin (first and second) and viola, and we’re building our sub list for all other sections.

We play four concerts a season, with rehearsals the Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings before each concert at Disciples Christian Church in Cleveland Heights. Video auditions are accepted on a rolling basis.

Instructions and the application may be found on the CRO website. Know a player who’d be a good fit? Share this with them!

10/08/2026

Our November 7 concert is free to attend, and if you'd like to support it, Musical Chair sponsorships are still available.

A Musical Chair lets you dedicate a seat in the hall to someone meaningful to you. For a concert about the stories that cultures pass down through generations, that feels like a fitting way to participate.

Click here to learn more about chair sponsorships: https://clevelandrepertoryorchestra.org/musical-chair-sponsorships/

10/07/2026

Our November 7 concert opens with one of the most enchanting pieces in the orchestral repertoire.

Maurice Ravel wrote Mother Goose originally as a piano duet, a gift for two young children whose parents were close friends of his. He later orchestrated it for full ensemble, which is what you will hear on our concert.

The five movements each draw inspiration from a different fairy tale: Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, Beauty and the Beast, The Empress of the Pagodas, and The Fairy Garden. Ravel had a lifelong fondness for the world of childhood. The music has an almost chamber-like delicacy, full of color and wonder, evoking the feeling of the story being told before your ears.

It's a perfect opening for a concert about folk traditions!

Reserve your seat for November 7: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/tales-three-folk-traditions

10/06/2026

Tickets are now available for our November 7 concert, an evening of folk traditions from three very different corners of the world.

The program features Maurice Ravel's Mother Goose Suite, Richard Strauss's Duet-Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon (with soloists Arleigh Savage and Benjamin Chen), and Carlos Simon's TALES: A Folklore Symphony.

Saturday, November 7 at 7:00 PM. Federated Church, 76 Bell St., Chagrin Falls, OH. Free admission, pay-what-you-will.

Reserve your seat: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/tales-three-folk-traditions

09/11/2026

The concert is tomorrow night! 🎶

New Morning: Twenty-Five Years After September 11
📅 Saturday, September 12 at 7:00 PM
📍 Mandel Humanities Center at Cuyahoga Community College Eastern Campus
4250 Richmond Rd., Highland Hills, OH

Free admission. Reserve your seat or come to the door.

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/25-years-after-september--11

09/09/2026

The digital program book for New Morning: Twenty-Five Years After September 11 is now available.

Since we know not everyone likes accessing information on their phones during the concert, we always provide the full digital program in advance so you can look at it before or after the concert on a larger device if you wish.

https://tinyurl.com/58xr4kun

Concert details: Saturday, September 12 at 7:00 PM, Mandel Humanities Center at Tri-C Eastern Campus, 4250 Richmond Rd., Highland Hills. Free admission.

09/07/2026

New Morning: Twenty-Five Years After September 11

📅 Saturday, September 12 at 7:00 PM

📍 Mandel Humanities Center at Cuyahoga Community College Eastern Campus
4250 Richmond Rd., Highland Hills, OH

Free admission. General admission seating. Reserve your seat or just show up at the door.

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/25-years-after-september--11

To view an expanded image of the map, visit:https://www.tri-c.edu/administrative-departments/compliance-and-risk-management/documents/emergency-map-east-25-0499-ar.pdf

09/04/2026

𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗽𝗵 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 — 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥

Our September 12 concert closes with Joseph Schwantner's New Morning for the World.

Schwantner composed the piece in 1982 and it premiered on January 15, 1983 — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday — at the Kennedy Center. The work draws from King's speeches across more than a decade: "Stride Toward Freedom," "Letter from Birmingham Jail," "Behind the Selma March," and the "I Have a Dream" speech, which closes the piece.

Critics have compared it to Copland's Lincoln Portrait for its prominent narrative passages and its unmistakably American sound. The orchestra and the speaker are featured equally throughout.

We chose this piece to end the program because of its hopeful and optimistic outlook. After the confusion of Ives, the grief of Hanson, and the struggle in Tower, the forward-looking meaning of Schwantner's music and Dr. King's words felt like an appropriate way to end the performance.

Dr. Todd Kitchen, President of Tri-C Eastern Campus and U.S. Army veteran, will serve as narrator.

Reserve your seat for September 12: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/25-years-after-september--11

09/02/2026

𝗚𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: 𝗗𝗿. 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗱 𝗞𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗻

Our September 12 concert features a guest narrator: Dr. Todd Kitchen, President of Cuyahoga Community College's Eastern Campus.

Dr. Kitchen will narrate Joseph Schwantner's New Morning for the World, which sets texts drawn from speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — including "Letter from Birmingham Jail," "Behind the Selma March," and the "I Have a Dream" speech. The piece was composed in 1982 and premiered on Dr. King's birthday in 1983.

Dr. Kitchen is a U.S. Army veteran who served in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He has spent his career in higher education, focused on economic mobility and student success. He is also the reason we're performing at the Mandel Humanities Center — Tri-C Eastern Campus is our host and partial sponsor for this concert, and we're grateful for their partnership.

Reserve your seat: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/25-years-after-september--11

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PO Box 18165
Cleveland Heights, OH
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http://www.clevelandrepertoryorchestra.org/

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