On a Personal Note

Classic Stewart Copeland Aug 24, 2021

Rock and drum icon Stewart Copeland talks early influences and recent compositions — including Police Deranged, an orchestral survey of Copeland’s career and his many years with The Police.

Upcoming Performance (September 11 at Blossom Music Center):

Join Stewart Copeland and The Cleveland Orchestra for the finale to this summer's Blossom Music Festival, Stewart Copeland’s Police Deranged For Orchestra, a high-energy orchestral celebration of The Police’s biggest hits, including ‘Roxanne’, ‘Don’t Stand So Close To Me’ and ‘Message in a Bottle’. With Copeland on drums, three singers, guitarist and the full symphony orchestra, these unique compositions give new life to classic songs and select hits from the career of one of the generation’s greatest and most influential artists.

Tickets available here
Stream Stewart Copeland's new Spotify Playlist, "For Cleveland"

Family Matters Dec 15, 2020

Revered pianist Mitsuko Uchida reminisces with fondness on the familial nature of her decades-long relationship with The Cleveland Orchestra.

Featured Music:

MOZART – Piano Concerto No. 24 (K. 491)

The Cleveland Orchestra
Mitsuko Uchida, conductor and piano
Recorded live at Severance Hall in November 2005

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

Change of Seasons, Part 2: The Golda Touch Nov 17, 2020

After several artist cancellations irrevocably altered plans to perform Haydn’s The Seasons, soprano Golda Schultz was the last soloist standing. Not only did the show go on, it became a defining moment.

Featured Music:

HAYDN – The Seasons

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Golda Schultz, soprano
Recorded live at Severance Hall on Jan. 18, 2018

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

Change of Seasons, Part 1: The Scramble Nov 11, 2020

In January 2018, The Cleveland Orchestra planned to perform Haydn’s choral masterpiece The Seasons. One soloist fell ill. Then another. What resulted is one of the most unusual and memorable performances in Cleveland Orchestra history.

Featured Music:

HAYDN – The Seasons

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Golda Schultz, soprano
Recorded live at Severance Hall on Jan. 18, 2018

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

Tour de Franz Oct 20, 2020

Cellist Paul Kushious reflects on the works of Richard Strauss as he traces the composer’s path on an unforgettable and perfectly planned trip from Austria to Switzerland.

Featured Music:

STRAUSS – Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Recorded live at Severance Hall in 2016

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

Color and Character Oct 13, 2020

Bassoonist Jonathan Sherwin discusses the existential meaning behind Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony - Resurrection; “Why am I here, what am I doing, and what gives my life meaning…”

Featured Music:

MAHLER – Symphony no. 2 (Resurrection)
5. Im Tempo des Scherzos (In the tempo of the scherzo)

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Joélle Harvey, soprano
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
Recorded live at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts on January 26, 2019

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

Legendary Oct 06, 2020

From music conductors to visiting artists to her own family ties, board member Clara Rankin thinks back on the people and performances that define The Cleveland Orchestra.

Interview conducted by André Gremillet, President & CEO of The Cleveland Orchestra.

Featured Music

MOZART – Symphony no. 41
1. Allegro vivace

The Cleveland Orchestra
Recorded live at Severance Hall in 1966

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

Love Notes Sep 29, 2020

Pianist and Violinist Carolyn Gadiel Warner reflects on falling in love—with her husband of 40 years, Bruckner symphonies and her profession.

Featured Music

BRUCKNER – Symphony No. 8
4. Finale

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Recorded live at Severance Hall on May 29, 2010

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

Pulse Sep 22, 2020

Principal Percussionist Marc Damoulakis talks about feeling the rhythm from an early age and what it means to keep time for The Cleveland Orchestra.

Featured Music

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV – Scheherazade
4. Festival at Baghdad; the Sea; the Ship Goes to Pieces on a Rock Surmounted by a Bronze Warrior

The Cleveland Orchestra
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor
Recorded live at Severance Hall on October 19, 2018

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

Where Words Fail, Music Speaks Sep 08, 2020

Director of Choruses Lisa Wong reflects on the healing power of John Adams’s On the Transmigration of Souls after 9/11 and the human voice as medicine for the soul.

Featured Music

ADAMS – On the Transmigration of Souls

The Cleveland Orchestra
Jakub Hrůša, conductor
Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
Recorded live at Severance Hall on November 17, 2019

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

Veer Sep 01, 2020

Music Director Franz Welser-Möst recalls the automobile accident that would forever change his course, sparking a lifelong affinity for Franz Schubert in the process.

Featured Music

SCHUBERT – Mass No. 6 in E-flat major
2. Gloria

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Recorded live at Severance Hall on May 18, 2019

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

Remembering Pierre Boulez Jun 18, 2020

Principal Trumpet Michael Sachs reflects on his relationship with one of the most influential figures in modern classical music—and the lasting legacy of Boulez in Cleveland.

Featured Music

STRAVINSKY – The Rite of Spring
PART II: The Sacrifice

The Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Recorded in Severance Hall in 1991

On Resolution Jun 11, 2020

Clarinetist Robert Woolfrey talks about finding peace in Brahms’s German Requiem and its power to connect the past with the present.

Featured Music

Brahms - German Requiem
2. For all flesh is as grass

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Recorded live in Severance Hall on October of 2009

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

A Musician’s Journey Part 2: Jessica Sindell Jun 04, 2020

Flutist and hometown girl Jessica Sindell reflects on her time with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, landing her dream job and the relentless pursuit of imperfection.

Features Music:

RACHMANINOFF - Piano Concerto 3
1. Allegro ma non tanto

The Cleveland Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Recorded in Severance Hall in 2018.

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

A Musician’s Journey Part 1: Emilio Llinás May 28, 2020

Long-tenured violinist Emilio Llinás reflects on his journey from Cuba to Cleveland and shares a perspective shaped by his 52 seasons.

Featured Music:

BEETHOVEN – Symphony No. 9
1. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Recorded in Severance Hall in May of 2018, as the finale to the Prometheus Project.

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

The Courage of Our Convictions May 21, 2020

Viola Player Eliesha Nelson finds strength in Anton Bruckner’s strongly-held belief that good conquers all—at a time when uncertainty troubles many.

Featured Music:

BRUCKNER – Symphony No. 5

The Cleveland Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Recorded live from Severance Hall in February of 2020

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

The Boy with the Dragonfly Tattoo May 14, 2020

Principal Flute Joshua Smith explains how performing Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen left a lasting mark and why the dragonfly just may be his favorite insect.

Featured Music:

JANÁČEK – The Cunning Little Vixen
(sung in Czech)

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Martina Janková, soprano (Vixen)
Jennifer Johnson Cano, soprano (Fox)
Samantha Gossard, soprano (Owl)
Marian Vogel, soprano (Blue Jay)
Sandra Ross, soprano (Woodpecker)
Recorded live from Severance Hall in May of 2014

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

Rediscovering Joy May 07, 2020

Cellist Martha Baldwin talks about the restorative power of Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto after a difficult diagnosis.

Featured Music:

BEETHOVEN – Piano Concerto No. 2

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano
Recorded live from Severance Hall in 2017

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

First Impressions Apr 30, 2020

At age 21, in his second week with The Cleveland Orchestra, Principal Horn Nathaniel Silberschlag played Mahler’s 5th for a packed house, exceeding expectations. Even his own.

Featured Music:

MAHLER - Symphony No. 5
3. Scherzo

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Recorded live at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County in 2020

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

A Romance with Rosenkavalier Apr 23, 2020

Violinist Katherine Bormann contemplates whether you can be in a long-term relationship with a composition and talks about why she’ll stick with Strauss's Rosenkavalier Suite until the end.

Featured Music:

R. STRAUSS - Concert Suite: Der Rosenkavalier

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

The Lasting Luster of Vinyl Apr 16, 2020

French Horn Player Richard King shares his earliest memories of hearing Beethoven’s "Eroica" on the family phonograph and how the disc ended up shaping his destiny.

Featured Music:

BEETHOVEN - Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”)

The Cleveland Orchestra

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

The Sound of Crisis Apr 09, 2020

Music Director Franz Welser-Möst recalls his conflicting emotions conducting The Cleveland Orchestra one last time before the Coronavirus pandemic silenced Severance Hall.

Featured Music:

SCHUBERT - Symphony in C major (“The Great”)
2. Andante con moto

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Recorded live at Severance Hall on March 13, 2020

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

Trailer Apr 09, 2020

Every story has a soundtrack. Cleveland Orchestra Musicians and Music Director Franz Welser-Möst share stories about the music that has shaped their lives.

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