The Cleveland Opera

Truth, Peace & Remembrance

a Concert honoring the Legacy of Dr. Clive Hamlin

  • Sunday, March 22, 2026 at 4:00 pm
Saint Casimir Church
8223 Sowinski Avenue
Cleveland OH 44103
  • Sunday, March 29, 2026 at 4:00 pm
Plymouth Church
2860 Coventry Road
Shaker Heights OH 44120

About

The Cleveland Opera will commemorate
the legacy of Dr. Clive Hamlin
with a concert of
𝄞 the Lyric Quartette by William Grant Still
𝄢 and Stabat Mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.

Admission

Free general admission, with free-will offerings.

If you would like to sponsor this concert with a donation of $35 per person,
we will be happy to reserve a select seat for you,
especially marked with your name on it.

Reserve Seats

Featuring

  • Dorota Sobieska, soprano
  • Amanda Fargo, mezzo-soprano
  • Sam Gross, tenor
  • Bohdan Subchak, violin, concertmaster
  • Corrie Anne Riberdy, violin
  • Wanda Sobieska, violin
  • Jacob Campbell, viola
  • Kent Collier, cello
  • Julian Sobieski, double bass
  • Jacek Sobieski, piano & basso continuo

The Music

The Stabat Mater is a musical setting of a hymn to the Virgin Mary
that portrays her suffering as a mother during the crucifixion
of her son Jesus Christ.
It is scored for soprano soloist, alto soloist, basso continuo and strings;
and was composed by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
in the final weeks of his life,
before he died in 1736 at the age of twenty-six.

The Lyric Quartette, meanwhile,
is a work for string quartet, subtitled
by its 20th-century American composer William Grant Still
as "Musical Portraits of Three Friends".
The three movements are as follows:

  1. The Sentimental One
  2. The Quiet One
  3. The Jovial One