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.  

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 ...  

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.  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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.  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...