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On Friday at 2:30 & 7:30, the Cooper International Violin Competition <\/strong>continues  vetting its 18 semi-finalists in 30-minute recitals, then after a cut, the six remaining violinists will play 45-minute recitals on Saturday at 3 pm and 8 pm. Moving into next week, three finalists will play complete concertos on Monday at 7:30 with the Columbus ProMusica Chamber Orchestra and conductor David Danzmayr, while violinists who didn\u2019t survive the final cut will play an Honors Recital on Sunday, August 9 featuring outstanding performances selected from the first three days of the competition. All events are free and will be live streamed from Oberlin\u2019s Warner Concert Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lawrence Loh will conduct The Cleveland Orchestra <\/strong>in the live to screen score of John Powell\u2019s How to Train Your Dragon<\/em> on Friday at 7 and Sunday at 3 in Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center. And Lucas Waldin will be on the podium at Blossom Music Center on Saturday at 7 as the Orchestra presents vocalists Capathia Jenkins & Ryan Shaw in hits by Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Whitney Houston & Elvis Presley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday at 7:30 pm and Sunday at 4, The Cleveland Opera and Cleveland Ballet <\/strong>will stage the 14-year-old Mozart\u2019s opera Mitridate, r\u00e8 di Ponto<\/em> (Mithridates, King of Pontus). Grzegorz Nowak, conducts, and tenor David Sadlier sings the title role at First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And on Saturday at 7:30 in the Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus and Sunday at 4 in Federated Church in Chagrin Falls, the Fryderyk Chopin Institute of Ohio <\/strong>will present pianist Kamil Pacholec on its summer series, featuring works by Chopin, Liszt, and Debussy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For details of these and other classical music events, please visit the ClevelandClassical.com concert listings<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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