Get ready to raise a glass, tap your feet, and belt out some sea shanties led by Canadian music powerhouse Séan Dagher with members of Les Délices. Including favorite traditional tunes like “Drunken Sailor,” “Blow the man down,” “Spanish Ladies,” and more. Refreshments provided.
Les Délices celebrates the release of their latest CD, The Poet & the Prodigy with a birthday bash in honor of J.S. Bach! Join LD musicians for live music and cold beer at this fun, festive, and FREE community event.
An uplifting new program from Les Délices that brings together 18th century Scottish ballad tunes with songs of the Great Lakes and the Ohio-Erie Canal. Join us for ballad tunes, jigs, and reels that crossed the Atlantic and traveled up through the Cuyahoga Valley to Lake Erie in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Featuring Tyler Duncan (baritone), Debra Nagy (oboe and recorders), Shelby Yamin (violin), Rebecca Landell (cello), and Brian Kay (guitar).
An uplifting new program from Les Délices that brings together 18th century Scottish ballad tunes with songs of the Great Lakes and the Ohio-Erie Canal. Join us for ballad tunes, jigs, and reels that crossed the Atlantic and traveled up through the Cuyahoga Valley to Lake Erie in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Featuring Tyler Duncan (baritone), Debra Nagy (oboe and recorders), Shelby Yamin (violin), Rebecca Landell (cello), and Brian Kay (guitar).
Curious about baroque string playing but don’t know where to start? Looking for advice on how to make your Bach or Corelli more fun and stylish? Are you seeking opportunities to bring more creativity and polish to your playing? Participants can try out Baroque bows, explore Baroque string techniques, and develop their understanding of musical storytelling in this day-long workshop focused on selections from Heinrich Biber’s programmatic showpiece Battalia. This workshop is offered in a “Pay-what-you-can” model hosted by The Music Settlement in Cleveland’s University Circle. Registration via The Music Settlement. Space is limited!
Inspired by animals and the natural world, Wild Things features delightful musical settings of Aesop’s Fables (in English, with soprano Elena Mullins Bailey) plus instrumental music depicting birds, cats, frogs, insects, and more by Heinrich Biber (his fabulous “Sonata Representativa"), François Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and others.
With puppets designed by Ian Petroni, an animal-inspired score of Baroque music assembled by Les Délices director Debra Nagy, and a narrative by Ohio poet laureate Dave Lucas, The Aesop Project will delight, inspire, and offer food for thought. Soprano Elena Mullins is featured alongside a stellar ensemble of Baroque violin, viola da gamba, oboe, recorder, and harpsichord.
With puppets designed by Ian Petroni, an animal-inspired score of Baroque music assembled by Les Délices director Debra Nagy, and a narrative by Ohio poet laureate Dave Lucas, The Aesop Project will delight, inspire, and offer food for thought. Soprano Elena Mullins is featured alongside a stellar ensemble of Baroque violin, viola da gamba, oboe, recorder, and harpsichord.
Want to learn more about the musical traditions of Latin America? At this day long workshop, you'll try out Baroque bows, explore Baroque technique, and explore how Indigenous, European, and African influences shaped a style full of rhythmic vitality, expressive contrast, and improvisatory flair with an all-star faculty from Les Délices! This workshop is offered in a “Pay-what-you-can” model hosted by The Music Settlement in Cleveland’s University Circle. Registration via The Music Settlement. Space is limited!
A musical preview and composer conversation with Gilda Lyons, whose new work Soy La Diosa celebrates the divine feminine in Central American myth. Also featuring orchestra students from Bard HSEC performing music from the Chiquitos Missions in Bolivia. Arrive early to grab dinner in the CentroVilla25 food hall!
Les Délices returns to Akron’s iconic community events center for a free, one-hour performance with choral students from Firestone CLC. Les Délices’ ensemble of recorder, violins, baroque guitar, and percussion will perform 17th and 18th century instrumental music from Latin America as well as accompany Firestone choirs in works by Sebastian Durón and Manuel Correa that combines Indigenous, European, and African influences.
Kick off the new season with Les Délices at a free/pay-what-you-can performance at The Treelawn Music Hall, an architectural and acoustical treasure in the heart of the Waterloo Arts & Entertainment District.