| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 9-May-2013 Severance Hall | Ton Koopman leads Cleveland Orchestra and Chamber Chorus in satisfying evening of Handel |
Dutch keyboardist and conductor Ton Koopman this weekend completed his third and final season as artist-in-residence with The Cleveland Orchestra, leading an all-Handel program that also featured the Cleveland Orchestra Chamber Chorus. It was a musically satisfying program that showed the versatility of both orchestra and chorus.
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| 1-May-2013 Cleveland Museum of Art: Gartner Auditorium | Distinctive Californian compositions in the Cleveland Museum of Art |
This week The Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland Museum of Art, two iconic cultural brands in the city, collaborated on a two-concert series at the museum of music by composers who based their careers in California. The orchestra’s assistant conductor, James Feddeck, conducted the concerts in the museum’s intimate Gartner Auditorium. The first concert featured rare works by Henry Cowell, Dane Rudhyar and Lou Harrison. The second concert, scheduled for Friday 3 May, features music by John Adams (his Shaker Loops), James Tenney and Terry Riley.Read full review... | |
| 27-Apr-2013 Severance Hall | Admired, not loved: The Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus in Haydn's The Seasons |
Are there musical works, even pieces generally considered to be masterpieces, that no longer can catch the listening public’s interest, no matter how expertly they are performed?Read full review... | |
| 13-Apr-2013 Severance Hall | James Feddeck leads an exciting rethinking of Carmina Burana in Cleveland |
When Cleveland Orchestra music director Franz Welser-Möst had to bow out of this past weekend’s performances of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana due to a recent back injury, the orchestra’s talented young assistant conductor, James Feddeck, inherited a high-profile assignment. The set of four concerts had been heavily promoted and were sold out. Feddeck chose not to take the safe and easy way out, with a bland run-through; instead he totally rethought Carmina and came up with a strikingly fresh and exciting reading.Read full review... | |