| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 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... | |
| 5-Oct-2012 Severance Hall | Cleveland Orchestra gives local premiere of Stewart Copeland's Gamelan D'Drum |
 Over the past several years the Cleveland Orchestra has instituted a number of new concert opportunities to attract a new, younger audience, in response to the “greying” of its traditional audience base and the diminished interest in a season-long commitment to regular concerts. One of these new series is the “Fridays @ 7” concerts begun four years ago, with expanded concessions available before and after the concert, a shortened formal concert, usually without intermission, and an “@fterparty” [sic.] with various types of jazz and world music after the concert.Read full review... | |
| 2-Jun-2012 Severance Hall | The Cleveland Orchestra concludes Severance Hall season with Verdi's Requiem |
 The Cleveland Orchestra closed its 2011/12 season on Thursday and Saturday, May 31 and June 2, with stirring performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem, with the orchestra’s Director of Choruses Robert Porco conducting the orchestra, the precisely-trained Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, and an unusually well-matched quartet of soloists. Two of the soloists, Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska and American tenor Dimitri Pittas, were making their Cleveland Orchestra debuts, with mezzo Michelle DeYoung and bass Raymond Aceto rounding out the group.
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