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7:00 PM Oberlin Summer Theater Festival to July 31

The Oberlin Summer Theater Festival will offer three family classics during its second season:

• Thornton Wilder's Our Town, opening July 2
• An adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle In Time, opening July 9
• William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, opening July 16

Performances will run in rotating repertory, Tuesdays thru Sundays, to July 31, in Hall Auditorium. All performances are absolutely free to the public but tickets are required for admission. All shows are geared for the entire family, including school-aged children. To accommodate families with younger members, evening performances will begin at 7 p.m. To make attendance easier, especially for our older audience members, and to allow out-of-town patrons the opportunity to see two shows in the same day, OSTF will offer 2 p.m. matinees on some Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

To reserve tickets, call (440) 775-8169 or reserve tickets online.

8:00 PM The Oberlin Piano Festival Guest Recital - Malcolm Bilson

Malcolm Bilson began his pioneering activity in the early 1970s as a performer of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert on late 18th- and early 19th-century pianos. Since then he has proven to be a key contributor to the restoration of the fortepiano to the concert stage and to fresh recordings of the "mainstream" repertory. Bilson has recorded the three most important complete cycles of works for piano by Mozart: the piano concertos with John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists for Deutsche Grammophon Archiv, the piano-violin Sonatas with Sergiu Luca for Nonesuch records, and the solo piano sonatas for Hungaroton. His traversal on period pianos of the Schubert piano sonatas (including the so-called incomplete sonatas), likewise on Hungaroton, was completed in 2003 In 2005 a single CD of Haydn sonatas appeared on the Claves label, and in 2008 his first recording on an English piano was released on Bridge Records with works of Dussek, Cramer and Haydn. Bilson, a member of the Cornell Music Faculty since 1968, is also Adjunct Professor at the Eastman School of Music and more recently on the Early Music Faculty of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, in charge of Keyboard Studies. He gives annual summer fortepiano workshops at various locations in the United States and Europe, as well as master classes and lectures around the world. In the fall of 1994 Bilson and six of his former artist-pupils from Cornell's D.M.A. program in Historical Performance Practice presented the 32 piano sonatas of Beethoven in New York City, the first time ever that these works had been given as a cycle on period instruments. The New York Times said that "what emerged in these performances was an unusually clear sense of how revolutionary these works must have sounded in their time." The recording of this series for Claves Records garnered over fifty very positive reviews and has recently been reissued. An educational video entitled "Knowing the Score" was released in 2005, in which Bilson discusses the question: Do we really know how to read the notation of the so-called 'classical' masters? (www.knowingthescore.com). A second video is currently in production, the tentative title of which is “Performing the Score.” Malcolm Bilson is a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, has an honoray doctorate from Bard College and is the recipient of the 2006 James Smithson Bicentennial Medal.