Fri 2/9 @ 7:30PM
Sat 2/10 @ 8PM
Sun 2/11 @ 3PM
There’ll be nothing uncomfortably unfamiliar about the headlining piece at this week’s Cleveland Orchestra concerts. When Finnish conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste steps onto the podium and lifts his baton to cue the orchestra, the audience will already be ready to hum along with the famous opening notes of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. After its debut in late 1808, following four years of work, it rapidly became one of the most beloved, most played and most familiar pieces in the classical repertoire. The Cleveland Orchestra alone has probably lost track of how many times they’ve played it.
The program opens with Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 6, which the orchestra describes as “sunny.”
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