Cleveland Orchestra

Some members teach. Others play chamber music. Then there's Robert Vernon, the longstanding principal violist of the Cleveland Orchestra. He does both, and then some, all the while leading a section many regard as one of the world's best.  

Turns out, the Cleveland Orchestra actually presented two operas this year, not one. Rivaling last month's account of Strauss's "Salome," the orchestra's season finale performance Thursday of Verdi's Requiem was every bit as vivid and dramatic ...  

Height matters for two reasons: visual presentation -- Porco likes the group to look neat -- and sight lines. If a shorter singer can't see the conductor, that's a problem. Hence their rule of thumb: No singer can be more than 3 inches taller ...  

The Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, showed its command of Strauss, as well as of Shostakovich, in concerts at Carnegie Hall.  

Beachwood-- Edward Ormond scoffed at the stereotype of violists as "broken-down fiddle players." The assistant principal violist of the Cleveland Orchestra told The Plain Dealer in 1994 that he preferred the viola to the violin. "There's a ...  

Verdi's Requiem isn't the cheeriest of scores. Next week, though, it signals a happy, or at least festive, occasion. By mounting the composer's nonoperatic masterpiece, the Cleveland Orchestra will conclude its Severance Hall season in the ...  

In this 20-minute piece, composed in 2008, Ms. Saariaho tries to evoke the illusion of moving images through the “variation ... rhythmic riffs in the percussion and piano; obsessive spiraling figures — try to get going but soon blend into ...  

Tune in on Wednesday, May 23, at 7 p.m. to hear one of America's greatest orchestras perform exemplary music from three centuries. The Cleveland Orchestra and Maestro Franz Welser-Most are joined by eminent pianist Yefim Bronfman for a program that includes the New York premiere of Kaija Saariaho's Laterna magica, a work inspired by the autobiography of Ingmar Bergmann, and works by Brahms and Shostakovich.  

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Once every year Franz Welser-Möst and the mighty Cleveland Orchestra – emphatically his mighty Cleveland Orchestra – pretend they are an opera company. The pretence is invariably welcome, and imposing too. This season the object of unified attention w ...  

Pianist Yefim Bronfman joins conductor Franz Welser-Möst and the orchestra for Brahms' Second Piano Concerto plus the Shostakovich Sixth and the New York premiere of Kaija Saariaho's 'Laterna Magica.'  

So vivid is her portrayal of the spurned princess, actual sets ... As for the orchestra, it didn’t always function smoothly under Welser-Most, but much of the turbulence was deliberate, and effective. Certainly the violent restlessness ...  

The Cleveland Orchestra has announced new directors of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus. Lisa Wong, assistant director of choruses for The Cleveland Orchestra, has been named director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus, and Daniel ...  

I'm much more nervous about this than I am for concerts." Ell won't walk down the aisle until September, one week after returning from a tour of Europe. She and Woolfrey, a native of Toronto, Ontario, also will have a larger, more traditional ...  

Robert Porco conducts The Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus in the Verdi Requiem at Severance Hall on May 31 and June 2 Beginning one hour prior to the performances, a Concert Preview titled “Verdi’s Requiem” will be given in the Concert Hall ...  

Top talent in the field of classical music often emerges to prominence as winners of contests and the Cleveland Orchestra is in the catbird seat to spot the best. The orchestra's executive director is just back from Salzburg, Austria  where he served on the jury for this year's  Nestle and Salzburg Festival Young conductors Award.   WKSU's Vivian Goodman reports.  

Guest conductor Giancarlo Guerrero and Béla Fleck appear on December 7, 2012.  Mr. Fleck performs his Banjo Concerto, which was premiered by Mr. Guerrero, Mr. Fleck, and the Nashville Symphony in 2011.  The concerto is a full-length work in three ...  

Say this much about Lionel Bringuier, the guest conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra this week: He's no passive observer, no timid musical bystander. Say this, too, however: his assertiveness is not always a plus. In fact, on Thursday, it was ...  

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld said the orchestra must deal with both the national and local musicians unions on matters related to electronic media.  

For unpredictable artistic zig-zagging - glorious one moment, awkward and undercooked the next - it would be hard to beat this week's concerts by the visiting Cleveland Orchestra under Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. The orchestra's back-to-back Davies...  

In 1958, the Cleveland Orchestra and Chicago Symphony joined the orchestras of Boston, New York and Philadelphia to form the group informally known as the Big Five, American musical forces comparable to any of the world's great ensembles. On Saturday,  

Cleveland Orchestraguest artists hyper-accordionist Michael Ward-Bergeman and percussionists Jamey Haddad, Keita Ogawa, and Marcus Santosto perform free, public Off Stage concert at Happy Dog in Gordon Square Arts District Friday, May 11, 12:30 ...  

The Cleveland Orchestra kicked off its 2012 West Coast tour with two memorable, sold-out concerts Sunday and Monday at San Fransciso's Davies Symphony Hall, to help celebrate the 100th birthday of the San Francisco Symphony.  

Yefim Bronfman, named “one of the greatest pianists active today” by The New York Times, is soloist in Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst at Carnegie Hall on May 23 In Salome, Richard Strauss set a ...  

He subsequently visited Sweden as a recipient of a Fulbright fellowship and served as apprentice conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, assisting then chief conductor Alan Gilbert. He is currently assistant conductor at New ...  

The cavalcade of prestigious American orchestras paying their respects and strutting their stuff during the San Francisco Symphony's yearlong celebration of its centennial continues Sunday and Monday when Cleveland comes calling. Austrian-born ...  

S MUSIC Welser-Möst and Cleveland Orchestra Celebrate the San Francisco Symphony's 2011-2012 Centennial Season with music director Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra. The performance includes Kaija Saariaho's...  

And the chance to play in Reynolds Hall played a major role in making Las Vegas the final stop on this week's West Coast tour, according to Hanson. "The Cleveland Orchestra has a very significant association with halls designed by David M. Schwarz," Hanson ...  

Lionel Bringuier, now serving as resident conductor in his fifth season on the conducting staff of the Los Angeles Philharmonic ... Concertgoers can enjoy free bus transportation and a special discounted ticket price of $30 when they join other members ...  

The script to "Every Good Boy" calls for the orchestra to be situated not in a pit but right in the middle of things. "It's not just something the characters reference, but an equal character itself," said James Feddeck, assistant conductor of ...  

Things came together with more coherence last night in Davies Symphony Hall with the second American Orchestra Series concert by the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by their Music Director Franz Welser-Möst.  In contrast to Sunday night’s performance ...  

Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra performs a free concert at Finney Chapel at Oberlin College on Wednesday, April 25at 7:30 p.m. and at Severance Hall( in which tickets can be purchased) on Sunday, May 6 at 7:30 p.m. In third Youth Orchestra program of ...  

This season, as part of its Grow Up Great initiative in Cleveland, PNC is sponsoring the Musical Rainbows Series for preschoolers as well as a wide range of other activities and programs designed to give very young children “A Great Early Start in the ...  

SFistSFist Reviews: the Cleveland OrchestraSFistThe soloist, Nikolaj Znaider, has a big, big tone. On the lower string, his Guarnerius sounds like a cello. He is vigorous, and he can fly in the arpeggios and play double stops like no one. But he sounded coarse in the larghetto, probably taken too ...and more »  

Music Director Laureate Christoph von Dohnányi returns to conduct Mahler’s Symphony ... including the Cleveland Orchestra Chamber Chorus and bass Klaus Mertens. A canticle of praise with bright trumpet fanfares, the rousing Dettingen Te ...  

Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky with Pinchas Steinberg Music Director Laureate Christoph von Dohnányi conducts Mahler Symphony No. 1 Pierre Boulez conducts Mahler Symphony No. 7 The Cleveland Orchestra has announced the 2012-13 subscription series at Severance Hall.  

The Tom Stoppard play has music by André Previn ... Cast members include Charles Kartali, Lisa Louise Langford, Matthew Wright, Pete Ferry, Ryan Vincent, T. Ryder Smith, and Peter Otto on solo violin. "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor: A Play for Actors ...  

It's partly his stage demeanor, by which, after all, an audience makes its first judgment. With pursed lips and distant eyes, Welser-Möst didn't exactly look like he wanted to be in Segerstrom Concert Hall on Tuesday night. Never mind, he had work to do.  

The Youth Orchestra will be conducted by Music Director James Feddeck, who is also assistant conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra.  With the Youth Orchestra, he has presented concerts in Severance Hall and throughout Northeast Ohio. In addition to ...  

As at Severance, too, marble abounds in a grand lobby, and the dominant visual motif is of a flower -- in this case, the blue iris ... San Diego may not appear again on the orchestra's calendar for some time now, but Las Vegas could turn ...  

This was the orchestra's first return to Southern California in seven years, and during that time the news from the second-largest city in Ohio hadn't always been good. Cleveland's population has dipped below 400,000, less than half of what it had been ...  

The Cleveland Orchestra spends much of "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor" making no sound. Nonetheless, it's an integral, vibrant part of the show.  

Pianist Lang Lang made his Cleveland Orchestra debut at Blossom Music Center in August 2000 as soloist in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, Jahja Ling conducting, and first appeared with the Orchestra at Severance Hall in September 2002, as soloist in ...  

Michael Krajewski was on the podium for the last of this season's Celebrity Series concerts. Billed as a "Tribute to Nat 'King' Cole," the evening actually traversed a wider swath of popular music, with the first half of the program devoted to ...  

20 with a performance by music director Franz Welser-Möst of Mahler's Symphony No. 3. On the contrary, the 2012-13 season is chock full of interest. Consider the slate of guest soloists, for instance. 2012-13 Season at Severance Hall Thursday ...  

PALM DESERT, CA. – Two things are plentiful here in this ... Still, with the thermometer still reading 90 degrees at 8 p.m., the team found ways to compensate and energize the sold-out crowd. The surprise hit was the dance suite from ...  

944 symphony in C major (the “Great”);  and the second was the premiere of Robert Schumann’s first (“Spring ... that begins the second part of Igor Stravinsky’s “Le Sacre du Printemps.”  However (as just about any music student seems ...  

Today, touring, residencies, radio broadcasts, and recordings available by internet download and on DVD and CD provide access ... honorary membership in the Vienna Singverein, and the appointment as an Academician of the European Academy of Yuste.  

Launched as a three-concert series during the 2009-10 season, the Celebrity Series drew sold-out houses for each performance.  The series now offers four concerts, to present an even broader range of musical styles, exploring avenues of orchestral music ...  

Again and again, Uchida found ways to make the music exist in two states simultaneously, to make it sound both heavy and weightless, serene and agitated, playful and profound. With her, Mozart was never fully in the mood he appeared to be in ...  

Of all the music directors on the series, only San Francisco's own Michael Tilson Thomas has been with his ensemble longer than Welser-Most. What's more, Cleveland responded to the commission request with not one but two modern works, Kaija ...  

The Cleveland Orchestra's PNC Musical Rainbow concerts are sponsored by PNC and the ... visual arts, early childhood, and creative arts therapies for special needs students, and gallery exhibits featuring regional artists.