Thu 10/14 @ 7:30PM
Sun 10/17 @ 3PM
Severance Hall has been dark for more than a year and a half, but now the lights will be turned on again as the Cleveland Orchestra launches a season of “New Beginnings,” with a concert described as “filled with sonority and meaning.”
The featured music, which will be conducted by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, including Richard Strauss’s MacBeth, a Symphonic Poem After Shakespeare’s Drama, Joan Tower’s four-movement concerto for cello and orchestra A New Day, and Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, composed in 1944 as things were looking up for the Allied forces. Cellist Alisa Weilerstein will join the Orchestra for A New Day, which was commissioned for her, and which she is debuting this year.
The preconcert talk in Reinberger Chamber Hall will be led by Welser-Möst and Cleveland Orchestra president/CEO André Gremillet, a sort of “welcome back” to Orchestra patrons.
Get tickets to the two performances here.