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The Cleveland Orchestra onstage at Severance Hall (Photo: Cleveland Orchestra / Roger Mastroianni)
A new series of concerts from one of the world's cherished orchestras
One of the most respected American ensembles, the Cleveland Orchestra shares an exciting slate of concerts from its home at Severance Hall. Featuring music director Franz Welser-Möst and a cast of soloists including Joélle Harvey, Alisa Weilerstein, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and Daniil Trifonov, don't miss this 13-week series as Cleveland Orchestra makes its debut in the WFMT Orchestra Series.
Dreams We’ve Dreamed; Songs We’ve Sung; Hopes We’ve Held
Works by Scott Joplin, Julia Perry, William Grant Still, Bernard Herrmann, Raven Chacon, and Edgard Varèse.
Marsalis and the New World
Dvořák traveled to America in the 1890s, and this wild, new country thrilled him. He admired the beauty of African American spirituals and was fascinated by Native American traditions. When describing his “New World” symphony, he said, “I tried to write only in the spirit of those national American melodies,” but his Ninth is clearly an expression of both the ...
Weilerstein Plays Barber
Cleveland-born cellist Alisa Weilerstein joins music director Franz Welser-Möst to perform Barber’s “lyric and romantic” Cello Concerto, a piece praised for its “Brahms-like grandeur.” Written while Barber was serving in the U.S. military during World War II, the concerto is bookended by the world premiere of Allison Loggins-Hull’s Can You See? and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 4 (revised 1947 version), a ...
Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony
In 1937 at the height of the Stalinist purges, Shostakovich was in disgrace – an outcast who feared for his life. (He slept in the stairwell outside his apartment so that his family might be spared if he were arrested.) In these darkest moments, he somehow found the courage to write his Fifth Symphony, publishing it with the ironic subtitle ...
