Fri 11/25 @ 7:30PM
Sat 11/26 @ 8PM
Sun 11/27 @ 3PM
The Firebird, composed by Igor Stravinsky for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe in Paris, based on Russian folktales. It made a huge splash when it debuted in 1910 and made Stravinsky famous. The music has never gone out of fashion.
In the past, the Cleveland Orchestra has performed the work with the Joffrey Ballet. This weekend, however, it will just perform the complete score on its own. You can sit in your seat at Severance Hall, close your eyes and imagine the dancing. The concert will open with Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto No. 1 from the late 1930s. That piece will showcase 37-year-old up-and-coming American violinist Stefan Jackiw, who, interestingly, is the child of two physicists, not musicians.
Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård will be leading the orchestra for the three concerts. Go here for tickets.
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That piece will showcase 37-year-old up-and-coming American violinist Stefan Jackiw, who, interestingly, is the child of two physicists, not musicians.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me.”