Thu 1/30 @ 7:30PM
Sat 2/1 @ 8PM
“Shadows, Seas & Sorcerers” will fill Severance Hall this week when the Cleveland Orchestra, under the baton of music director Franz Welser-Möst, takes the stage.
Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 6, debuted in 1947, is panoramic in scope but somber and occasionally agonizing, and no wonder. It’s a musical meditation on the costs of World War II, what he described as “the painful results of war.” By contrast, English composer Frank Bridge’s “The Sea” is an orchestral tone poem composed in 1911, with four movements describing different aspects of the sea: a summer morning, a storm, a calm, moonlit night and sea foam dancing over rocks and sand.
Finally, the concerts conclude with a piece that will be familiar to everyone in the audience and many people who have never set foot in Severance Hall, although few could place its composer, Paul Dukas. He composed the symphonic poem, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, in 189, but it entered the popular lexicon when it was featured in the 1940 animated Disney film Fantasia. Sadly, Dukas passed away in 1935 and never got to see the film.
Tickets are $21-$165.
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106