Thu 3/21 @ 7:30PM
Fri 3/22 @ 7:30PM
Sat 2/23 @ 8PM
The Cleveland Orchestra’s next program highlights the talent of two young women musicians on the verge of what’s likely to be illustrious careers, considering the acclaim they’ve already gotten.
The orchestra will be led for these evenings by 39-year-old Dalia Stasevska, who was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and moved to Finland, where she received her musical education, at the age of 5. She’ll conduct the orchestra in Symphony No. 2, the 1902 work by Finland’s best-known composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), a tribute to the country’s wild, icy beauty. That landscape also figures into the 1972 Cantus Arcticus, written by a Finnish composer of the next generation, Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016). Dubbed a “concerto for birds and orchestra, it features tapes of birdsong recorded in the north of Finland.
The third piece of the program, Julia Perry’s setting of the 13th-century Stabat Mater, will feature a rising star, Texas mezzo-soprano Josefina Maldonado who is just in her late 20s. Perry, an early 20th-century African-American composer, who studied at Juilliard and in Europe, grew up in Akron and is buried there; this week is the centenary of her birth on March 25, 1924. (She died in 1979.)
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