CONCERTS, LECTURES, WORKSHOPS PLANNED FOR VATICAN TREASURES

Visitors to the Cleveland Museum of Art this winter will be able to experience historic music from Gregorian chants to Renaissance Italian harpsichord concerts; learn about St. Peter's Basilica in Rome; hear a lecture by the acting director general of the Vatican Museums; and make their own glittering letters inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts. All these events and others have been planned to complement Vatican Treasures: Early Christian, Renaissance, and Baroque Art from the Papal Collections, on view in Cleveland only, from February 8 through April 12, 1998.

Many of the events are free. For events requiring tickets, they are available through the museum's new ticket and membership center; the phone numbers for the center are 421-7350 or toll-free 1-888-CMA-0033 outside the 216 area code. A preliminary list of events follows. A complete programs brochure will be available when the exhibition opens.

Lectures

"The Vatican Collections" (working title)
Francesco Buranelli, Acting Director General of the Vatican Museums
Wednesday, February 25, 7 p.m.
Admission $10 ($5 CMA members), Gartner Auditorium

"Affectivity in Carissimi, Bernini and Ignatius"
Steven Plank, Professor of Musicology, Oberlin College
Friday, March 13, 7:30 p.m.
FREE, Recital Hall

In preparation for the exhibition3 Wednesdays in January at 6:45 p.m.
"St. Peter's in Rome: The Most Important Church in Christendom"
Robert P. Bergman, CMA director and co-curator of the exhibition
January 14, "Old St. Peter's: The Original Church of Constantine and Its Influence in the Middle Ages"; January 21, "Renaissance St. Peter's: From Bramante to Michelangelo"; January 28, "Bernini and the Baroque in St. Peter's"
Admission for the series $40 ($20 CMA members); single tickets as available at the door $16 each ($8 CMA members); Gartner Auditorium

Concerts

"Music for a Papal Garden"
Ciaramella, an ensemble of shawms, recorders, bagpipes, and other wind instruments
Sunday, February 8, 3:30 p.m.
FREE, Indoor Garden Court

Lionheart (men's vocal ensemble)
Gregorian chant, medieval and Renaissance works
Friday, February 13, 7:45 p.m.
Tickets $24 and $22 (CMA members half price), Gartner Auditorium

"The Music of Seicento Italiano" (Castello, Cima, Corelli, Marini, Fontana, Frescobaldi, Pasquini)
Lorenzo Ghielmi, harpsichord, and Enrico Onofri, violin
Friday, February 27, 7:45 p.m.
Tickets $16 and $14 (CMA members half price), Gartner Auditorium

Marenzio's Messa Jubilate Deo
Musica Ecclesiastica, Steven Plank, director
Friday, March 6, 7:30 p.m.
FREE, Indoor Garden Court

Jacopone da Todi's Stabat Mater Donna de Paradiso (Italian medieval folk opera)
I Guillari di Piazza ("Jesters of the Square") with Glen Velez, percussionist
Friday, March 27, 8 p.m.
Tickets $12 ($6 CMA members), Gartner Auditorium

"Music for the Papal Chapel"
Case Western Reserve Early Music Singers, Beverly Simmons, director
Sunday, April 5, 3:30 p.m.
FREE, Indoor Garden Court

Theatre of Voices and Pro Arte Choir, Paul Hillier, artistic director
Palestrina's Stabat Mater and premieres of works by Arvo Pärt
Friday, April 10, 7:45 p.m.
Tickets $24 and $22 (CMA members half price), Gartner Auditorium

After the exhibition:
Oberlin Collegium Musicum, Steven Plank, director
Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass with Gregorian interpolations
Sunday, May 3, 1998, 3:30 p.m.
FREE, Indoor Garden Court

Free Sunday Drop-in Family Workshops

Family Express"Lots of Letters"
Glittering letters from medieval manuscripts inspire visitors of all ages to "illuminate" their own names in calligraphic collages.
February 15, 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Family Express"Beautiful Books"
Books from around the world in the museum's galleries inspire visitors of all ages to create their own books to fill with stories and pictures.
March 15, 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Additional hands-on workshops TBA each Sunday during the exhibition, 1:30-4:00 p.m.

Film Series: Journeys of Faith
Eight classic affirmations from the reservoir of great world cinema.
Each showing 7 p.m. Admission $6, CMA members $3.

Wednesday, March 4
Stalker (USSR, 1979) directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.

Friday, March 6
Breaking the Waves (Denmark/France, 1996) directed by Lars von Trier. Rated R.

Wednesday, March 11
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Italy/France, 1966) directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Friday, March 13
Jesus of Montreal (Canada/France, 1989) directed by Denys Arcand. Rated R.

Wednesday, March 18
Ordet (Denmark, 1955) directed by Carl Dreyer.

Friday, March 20
Thérèse (France, 1986) directed by Alain Cavalier.

Wednesday, March 25
Miracle in Rome (Colombia/Spain, 1988) directed by Lisandro Duque.

Friday, March 27
Diary of a Country Priest (France, 1950) directed by Robert Bresson.

Videos
In the AV room will be a series of videos related to the Vatican and Italian art, with a new title starting each Sunday.