Candlelight: Christmas Carols on Strings

Candlelight: Christmas Carols on Strings at Maltz Performing Arts Center

The best holiday songs don't need more volume. Sometimes they need more space. In Candlelight: Christmas Carols on Strings, a quartet lets each familiar melody stand on its own while the room glows around it. It's a surprisingly fresh way to hear music you've known forever.

That matters at Christmas Carols on Strings, where the format is as much a part of the performance as the music itself. Fever’s 60-minute Candlelight presentation uses flameless LED candles, so the room glows while the strings carry the season forward with the quartet carrying the musical arrangements. It’s a streamlined holiday concert, but not a thin one.

The setting gives it extra weight. Maltz Performing Arts Center is no ordinary backdrop; the Cleveland venue was originally a 1922 synagogue and later earned a place on the National Register of Historic Places. That kind of space gives the carols a sense of occasion before the first note even arrives.

Trade the usual holiday noise for something luminous. Get tickets for Candlelight: Christmas Carols on Strings in Cleveland.