Sun 11/21 @ 3PM
If you’re an aspiring young classical musician, there’s no better position to be in than to be a member of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, which draws outstanding teen musicians from 11 northern Ohio counties. They get coaching from Cleveland Orchestra members and perform three concerts each year at Severance Hall.
They return to Severance Hall after a pandemic hiatus for their first performance on the 2021-22 season, where they’ll perform under the baton of Cleveland Orchestra assistant conductor Vinay Parameswaran, who serves as music director of the youth orchestra.
The program includes four pieces, offering an interesting variety of familiar and less familiar pieces and, in keeping with a mission many classical music presenters have adopted, offers composer diversity. It starts with 83-year-old American composer Joan Tower’s 2014 Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, its title a takeoff on Aaron Copland’s 1942 Fanfare for the Common Man. They’ll play the 1948 Short Symphony by black composer Howard Swanson, which earned significant acclaim in its day, and then move to Copland himself for one of the most familiar pieces of the evening, his 1940s Suite from Appalachian Spring, adapted for orchestra from music he wrote for the Martha Graham ballet of the same name. Finally, they’ll perform Antonín Dvořák’s 1885 Symphony No. 7 in D minor, another familiar piece.
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