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2020-2021 Season – Tickets & Subscriptions On Sale Now!
The 29th Season: A Pilgrimage of Hope
Resilience e Allure e Mystery e Elegance e Triumph e Celebration
Dear Friends,
ATTEND IN PERSON OR AT HOME!
Your subscription or ticket allows you either to attend the concert in person, We miss you and hope you are
OR receive a password to watch the exclusive concert-video 1 week later in well! In these uncertain times, I
the comfort of your home. More details at apollosfire.org. like to think that Apollo leads us
through music to wellness. That’s
NO-RISK SUBSCRIPTION POLICY because Apollo is the Greek god
If a concert is cancelled due to the pandemic, choose from 4 options: of music and healing. Music
and healing... in the same deity? Yes. The ancient
1. Use the ticket for another AF concert of your choice during the season; Greeks knew that music has the power to move the
2. Apply 120% of your ticket value toward your tickets or emotions and heal the spirit.
subscription during the 2021-22 season;
3. Receive a full refund for the cancelled concert; Throughout 2020-2021, we will follow Apollo
4. Donate the ticket(s) and receive a tax donation receipt plus a along a journey from solitude to camaraderie...
Bring-a-Friend coupon with no expiration date. a pilgrimage to hope. Our musicians will likely
begin the season standing 6 feet apart, but closer
NEW THIS YEAR: Virtual & Interactive Zoom Events than ever in spirit. Through the voices of Purcell,
Ticket-holders* will receive links to two Zoom events for each concert: Monteverdi, Handel, Vivaldi, and more, we
will travel a path of Resilience, Allure, Mystery,
1. Pre-Concert Talks with Visiting Scholar Dr. Thomas Forrest Kelly Elegance, Triumph, and Celebration.
and/or AF musicians, held on Thursday and Saturday afternoons
during concert weeks; Please join us in whatever way suits you best – in
2. Post-Concert “Virtual Lobby”: 30-min. Q&A discussions with featured person or at home.
performers on Sunday evening of the concert weekend. Sit down with
a glass of wine and toast the musicians on their performance! Wishing you health and inspiration,
*Zoom events will be limited to 60 screens per session. The first 30
spaces are held for donors and subscribers.
Artistic Director
2020-2021 SUBSCRIPTION PROGRAMS
SAVE THE DATE! See the enclosed order form for pricing. Visit apollosfire.org for more details on “Attend the
Concert in Person or at Home.” Questions? Please email us at info@apollosfire.org or call
216.320.0012 x 1. If you miss us, please leave a message. All calls will be returned!
Go For
Resilience
Baroque! Music for Troubled Times
PROGRAM #1: OCTOBER 8-11
Amanda Powell, soprano
A Worldwide
London, 1665: A year-long plague held the city in its grip, but haunting folk
Benefit for ballads and laments of Dowland and Purcell wafted from the windows of
Apollo’s Fire empty streets. Two centuries later, outbreaks of cholera and dysentery could
not prevent Americans – black and white – from singing in joyous harmony
at the end of the Civil War. In this new program from Jeannette Sorrell, we
Sunday, September 13 conjure up these two historic pandemics through music, diaries and poems as
3:00pm we celebrate the resilience of the human spirit. WE SHALL OVERCOME.
These concerts are generously supported by
Mrs. Clara Rankin
Honorary Chair Thursday, October 8, 7:30pm The BATH Church, UCC
Friday, October 9, 7:30pm CLEVELAND Museum of Art (Gartner)
Saturday, October 10, 8:00pm First Baptist Church, SHAKER HEIGHTS
AF’s musicians from around
Sunday, October 11, 4:00pm St. Raphael Catholic Church, BAY VILLAGE
the world serenade you from
their homes in this 90-minute
ZOOM benefit and celebration.
Join Jeannette Sorrell, the Three
Amandas, and some of your
Allure
The Three Amandas
favorite AF musicians and guest PROGRAM #2: NOVEMBER 5-8
artists. We will also meet “alums” Amanda Forsythe & Amanda Powell, sopranos
of AF’s Musettes children’s choir Amanda Crider, mezzo-soprano
who are now living and working
around the world – from Paris Long ago in the palace of Ferrara, three renowned ladies entertained princes
with their astonishing musicianship. The “Tre Donne di Ferrara” (Three Ladies
to San Francisco. Open a bottle
of Ferrara) were probably the first female professional musicians. Apollo’s
of wine and peruse the fabulous
Fire collaborates with three stunning Amandas in virtuoso trios written for
Silent Auction items between the Ferrara ladies, alongside soulful songs by Barbara Strozzi and Francesca
performances as we watch the Caccini and lively duets from Monteverdi’s playful Scherzi Musicali. Eight
fundraising total climb to the goal! instrumentalists join in the fun with dances from the palace and the countryside.
Thursday, November 5, 7:30pm First United Methodist, AKRON
FREE to AF donors*
Friday, November 6, 7:30pm Federated Church, CHAGRIN FALLS
$500 and above! Saturday, November 7, 8:00pm ROCKY RIVER Presbyterian
All others – $50/household Sunday, November 8, 4:00pm CLEVELAND Museum of Art (Gartner)
*Free admission is for donors who have contributed
at least $500 between 9/12/2019 and 9/11/2020.
For more information, please contact NOTE: For your health and safety, Apollo’s Fire will implement Ohio’s
Angela Mortellaro at 216.320.0012 x 6 health guidelines at the time of each concert. This may include social
or amortellaro@apollosfire.org distancing, facial masks, capacity limits, and quick temperature
checks at the door (using non-contact digital forehead scanners).
Mystery: A Celtic Christmas Vespers
has been replaced due to anticipated
Delight
social distancing constraints. A Fiddler’s Noël Catch Apollo’s
PROGRAM #3: DECEMBER 12-13 & 19-21
Jeannette Sorrell, conducting Fire Around
Amanda Powell, soprano North America
The Masked Fiddlers: Olivier Brault,
Susanna Perry Gilmore, Alan Choo, Emi Tanabe This Season!
Apollo’s Fire welcomes the holidays with fiddle
fireworks! The first half features Corelli’s
delightful Christmas Concerto, Biber’s Sonata on the Annunciation to the Virgin
Mary, and selections from Handel’s Messiah. After intermission, the Masked
Fiddlers lead a toe-tapping Christmas Barn Dance of Irish-Appalachian carols
and fiddle tunes. Virtuosity explodes from all corners!
“Brilliant fiddling... It was riveting to hear this mostly forgotten music... Apollo’s Fire at Carnegie Hall
spectacularly performed and deeply moving.”
– SEEN & HEARD INTERNATIONAL (review of Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain) Viruses permitting, Apollo’s Fire
Saturday, December 12, 8:00pm First Baptist Church, SHAKER HEIGHTS is engaged to perform at the
Sunday, December 13, 4:00pm St. Noel, WILLOUGHBY HILLS following venues:
Saturday, December 19, 8:00pm CLEVELAND Museum of Art
Sunday, December 20, 4:00pm St. Raphael Catholic Church, BAY VILLAGE Metropolitan Museum of Art
Monday, December 21, 7:30pm St. Paul’s Episcopal, AKRON NEW YORK CITY
DePaul University
Elegance
The Harper’s Voice
CHICAGO
Salle Bourgie
MONTRÉAL, CANADA
PROGRAM #4: FEBRUARY 18-21
Virtuoso Harpists of the British Isles Taylor Arts Centre
Parker Ramsay, baroque harps & direction CALGARY, CANADA
with Amanda Powell, soprano
Green Music Center
The harp was the voice of the marginalized peoples of the British Isles – Irish, SONOMA, CA
Welsh, and Scots. Ireland’s legendary blind harper, Turlough O’Carolan, was
one of several great harpers of the 17th and 18th centuries. Today’s young Vilar Performing Arts Center
virtuoso harpist, Parker Ramsay, weaves their stories and their music into VAIL, CO
an evening of intimate artistry. Six Apollo’s Fire musicians on violins, flute,
cello, hammered dulcimer, and plucked instruments join in the sparkling Renaissance &
music of O’Carolan, Purcell, William Lawes, and Handel. Baroque Society
PITTSBURGH, PA
Thursday, February 18, 7:30pm First United Methodist, AKRON
Friday, February 19, 7:30pm St. Paul’s, CLEVELAND HEIGHTS Amherst Bach Festival
Saturday, February 20, 8:00pm St. Paul’s, CLEVELAND HEIGHTS AMHERST, MA
Sunday, February 21, 4:00pm ROCKY RIVER Presbyterian
For more information visit:
“In classic Apollo’s Fire manner, the entire evening was delivered with urgency, www.apollosfire.org/touring/
polish, and flair. To hear an ensemble at the peak of their powers, making vital touring-schedule/
statements about the world, is a privilege”
– SEEN & HEARD INTERNATIONAL
SHUTDOWN WEARY?
Triumph
Handel’s Israel in Egypt
Check out
PROGRAM #5: MARCH 18-21
A Dramatic Oratorio
Adaptation by Jeannette Sorrell
We welcome Passover and Easter with the return of Handel’s Israel in Egypt
Our new video series in Jeannette Sorrell’s acclaimed adaption. In addition to being a colorful
with filmed concerts, interviews, showpiece for the virtuoso players and chorus of Apollo’s Fire, the work is a
and reading – gripping emotional journey – from the haunting Lamentations of the Israelites
all for your pleasure at home. on the Death of Joseph, to the plagues of frogs, locusts, hailstones, and more…
to the triumph of the crossing of the Red Sea.
View past programs and sign
up for the rest of the series at “The musicians navigated Handel’s various musical depictions with exhilarating
apollosfire.org/ abandon, which Sorrell harnessed wonderfully.”
music-for-the-soul/ – THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
e Note: If social distancing is still in place in March, this program will be replaced by
a smaller program featuring Old Testament and/or Jewish music.
CAN YOU HELP? Thursday, March 18, 7:30pm St. Paul’s Episcopal, AKRON
During the COVID shutdown, Friday, March 19, 7:30pm ROCKY RIVER Presbyterian
Apollo’s Fire has lost hundreds Saturday, March 20, 8:00pm The Temple–Tifereth Israel, BEACHWOOD
of thousands of dollars in ticket Sunday, March 21, 4:00pm First Baptist Church, SHAKER HEIGHTS
revenue and touring fees. What’s
worse, our musicians have lost all of
their work with ensembles around
the country. But thanks to your
donations, Apollo’s Fire, unlike
Celebration
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons – rediscovered
many other orchestras, has so far
been able to pay our musicians PROGRAM #6: APRIL 9-12 & 17-18
$100,000 in partial fees for with projected images in some venues
canceled concerts. We couldn’t have
done this without your support!
To donate either to our Our season-long pilgrimage to wellness ends with an exuberant celebration
Musicians’ Fund or to of Nature. If you thought you knew Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, be prepared for
AF’s Annual Fund, please surprises. Apollo’s Fire and Jeannette Sorrell bring these beloved concertos to
email Angela Mortellaro at life as the revolutionary acts of musical storytelling they were meant to be – a
amortellaro@apollosfire.org or vivid and joyful depiction of traditional life in the Italian countryside. The
call 216.320.0012 x 6.* program also features dueling cellists in Vivaldi’s stormy Concerto for Two Cellos.
*AF staff are working remotely. Please
leave a voicemail and Friday, April 9, 7:30pm St. Noel, WILLOUGHBY HILLS
your call will be returned. Saturday, April 10, 8:00pm Federated Church, CHAGRIN FALLS
Sunday, April 11, 4:00pm ROCKY RIVER Presbyterian
Thank you for supporting Monday, April 12, 7:30pm The BATH Church, UCC
your baroque orchestra! Saturday, April 17, 8:00pm CLEVELAND Institute of Music
Sunday, April 18, 4:00pm CLEVELAND Museum of Art
216.320.0012 | apollosfire.org
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