Harry Potter to meet Toledo Symphony in Maumee
Chelsea Tipton II conducts a program entitled "Harry Potter Meets the Toledo Symphony" at 7 p.m. March 19 in the Maumee Performing Arts Center, 1147 Saco St., Maumee. The symphony will perform music by John Williams from the Harry Potter movies, Edward Elgar, Edvard Grieg, Richard Wagner, and Modest Mussorgsky. Tickets are $25 to $35 for adults and $13 for children. Information: 419-246-8000.
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Grant Cook III will direct the Heidelberg University Concert Choir at 4 p.m. March 22 in Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral, 2535 Collingwood Blvd. The free concert by the Tiffin group will include works by Joseph Haydn, Aaron Copland, Ernest von Dohnnyi, Morten Lauridsen, Bob Chilcott, and Paul Manz. Information: 419-244-9575.
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Jazz Fest '09 continues in Bowling Green State University's Moore Musical Arts Center. Events include free concerts by the BGSU jazz lab band I at 8 p.m. March 19 in Kobacker Hall and the BGSU vocal jazz ensemble, directed by Chris Buzzelli and featuring guest trumpeter Scott Wendholt, at 8 p.m. March 20 in Bryan Recital Hall. High School Jazz Day, featuring performances by local high school musicians, jazz lab band I, and Wendholt, will be March 21. Contact David Bixler, 419-372-2953, for a High School Jazz Day schedule.
Also at BGSU, pianist Solungga Fang-Tzu Liu will perform works by American composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes in a free Faculty Artist Series concert at 3 p.m. March 22 in Bryan Recital Hall.
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Students from the voice studio of professor Myra Merritt will perform in a Music from Bowling Green at the Manor House program at 7:30 p.m. March 24 in Wildwood Preserve Metropark, 5100 West Central Ave.
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The Perrysburg Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Barbara Specht, will present "Mozart By Candlelight" at 8 p.m. March 21 in Trinity Episcopal Church, Adams and St. Clair streets, Toledo. The program includes Wolfgang Mozart's Second Flute Concerto in D Major and Symphony No. 32, Schubert's Symphony No. 3, and Handel's Concerto Grosso No. 6. Featured performers are flutists Connie Alleshouse and Roselyn Smith, violinists Barbara Ziebold and Steffany Shock, cellist Elizabeth Hamaker, and oboist Bonnie Rowe. Tickets, available at Trinity Episcopal Church and Ken's Flowers in Perrysburg, are $15 for adults and $12 for seniors and students. Information: perrysburgsymphony.org.
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Benjamin Britten's comic opera Albert Herring will be presented by the University of Michigan University Opera Theatre at 7:30 p.m. March 20, 8 p.m. March 21, and 2 p.m. March 22 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, 911 North University Ave., Ann Arbor. Israel Gursky, assistant conductor with the Washington National Opera, conducts the University Philharmonia Orchestra. Based on Le rosier de Madame Husson, an 1888 short story by Guy de Maupassant, the opera is set in a small English town that seeks to elect a May queen. Tickets are $24 and $18 for adults and $9 for UM students with ID.
Also at UM, the school of music, theater, and dance presents a 25th anniversary concert at 8 p.m. March 21 in Hill Auditorium, 825 North University Ave., Ann Arbor. Current students and more than 50 graduates will join the university symphony band in a wide variety of musical numbers and dances from shows such as The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Jersey Boys, Wicked, Avenue Q, Big River, Anything Goes, Rent, and Candide. Tickets for remaining reserved seating are $25 and $16 for the public and $9 for UM students.
Information: 734-764-2538 and www. music.umich.edu.
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Jack Everly will conduct the Detroit Symphony in a program entitled "Vegas, Baby," honoring the music and celebrities that put Las Vegas on the map. Performances are at 10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m. March 19, 8:30 p.m. March 20 and 21, and 3 p.m. March 22 in Orchestra Hall of the Max M. Fisher Music Center, 3711 Woodward Ave., Detroit. Tickets range from $19 to $70.