Chee-Yun

Not only does she look good, but violinist CHEE-YUN is one heck of a fiddler, too. But don't take CityBeat's word for it: You can hear for yourself. She's playing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor at Music Hall, when Music Director Emeritus Jesús López-Cobos returns for a set of concerts. She's performed with the San Francisco Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the NHK Symphony in Tokyo, and the Seoul Philharmonic back home in Korea.

She might strike you as a kid, but Chee-Yun has been knocking out stellar performances for more than a decade. She won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1989 and was nominated for Best Debut in the first annual Cannes Classical Awards in 1994. She's been acclaimed on several continents, performing at the White House for President Clinton and winning Korea's Nan Pa Award, the country's highest musical honor.

Chee-Yun and López-Cobos (say that three times, fast) have collaborated several times, including recordings with the London Philharmonic. Following concerts each evening, the two will sign CDs in the Music Hall lobby.

The best deal on these concerts is Thursday evening when you can get pre-concert eats for free, beginning at 6:15 p.m. If you're attending Friday or Saturday evening, there's only food for thought, but it's worth it: At 7 p.m. Jasson Minadakis, artistic director for the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival, will talk about the work that inspired two of the concert's compositions, Mendelssohn's Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream and Schnittke's [Not] A Midsummer Night's Dream "(K)ein Sommernach-straum"). 513-381-3300. -- RICK PENDER

SATURDAY 9
Director Ray Lawrence's riveting thriller, LANTANA, thrives on Anthony LaPaglia's performance as an adulterous police detective whose unhappy personal life changes during the search for a missing psychiatrist (Barbara Hershey). Screen-writer Andrew Bovell, adapting his own play, Speaking in Tongues, pushes Lantana's mystery in a complex direction. Luckily, LaPaglia's powerful performance keeps the story coherent and engaging. -- STEVE RAMOS

TUESDAY 12
Bonnie can't sleep. That's the least of her problems, but if she fixes it, it might help the others. Well, except for that unwanted pregnancy. Dr. Ian Ogelvie is researching a sleeping agent that has helped Japanese fighting fish, well, get along. Hear ROBERT COHEN discuss the inevitable crossing of these two lives in his book Inspired Sleep at Joseph-Beth. Click here for an interview with Cohen. 513-396-8960. -- REBECCA LOMAX

Singer/songwriter KRIS BROWN performs Tuesday at Stanley's Pub for his first local gig since he relocated from Cincinnati to Austin, Texas, about six months ago. Brown, whose style can appropriately be called a musical gumbo, with its wide range of influences, is making the show a special Mardi Gras affair, complete with beads, jambalya and all things N'awlins. Brown, who will be joined Tuesday by a five-piece band, is hoping to release his completed new album, One Life Sentence, in the near future. 513-871-6249. -- MIKE BREEN

Feel like something different? Korean artists Ha Dong-Chul and Ha Won will present a lecture on contemporary printmaking at the ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI in the Chidlaw Gallery at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday. The father-and-daughter combo are master printmakers with contemporary styles. An exhibit of their work is touring Ohio throughout February. Tuesday is your last chance to see it here in town. 513-562-8777.-- KATE BRAUER

WEDNESDAY 13
How's this for obvious? Iran is just about the last place any of us want to visit right now. Luckily, through a presentation of three short IRANIAN DOCUMENTARY FILMS, we can go there without leaving the comfort of the Cincinnati Art Museum's padded auditorium seats. Alone in Tehran, Christine and Laleh and Ladan give us glimpses into the struggles and hopes of women in contemporary Iran, and reveal that there's more to the country than being branded as the "Axis of Evil." 7 p.m. Wednesday. 513-251-6060. -- JASON GARGANO

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