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Worldwide Praise for The Cleveland Orchestra
"The orchestra, under the baton of its music director, Franz Welser-Möst, gave proof of that excellence which has enthroned it as one of the best in the world.”
— El Nuevo Herald
“... Better performances don’t exist.”
— USA Today
“…America’s finest orchestra…”
— The New York Times
“One of the world’s greatest orchestras is reaching out to the South Florida community to share their passion for music.”
— CNN
“Their reputation as one of the world’s great ensembles is richly deserved.”
— The Guardian
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Category Archives: Blog
Teach Your Children (Music) Well
Do we need classical music education? For this blog we’ve talked with several of the Cleveland Orchestra musicians who are involved in educational projects in Miami, mostly with very young public school students, and we have witnessed major artists give master classes or conduct guest rehearsals at the University of Miami Frost School of Music. We have observed, and recorded, how students of all ages find the experience enriching, even thrilling. And it will continue. As long as the orchestra comes to Miami, there will be a variety of educational projects in which its members will engage. Even if classical … Continue reading
Summer In Blossom: A Cleveland Orchestra Destination
The Cleveland Orchestra’s Bruckner Symphonies are a not-to-be-missed event for, arguably, Franz Welser-Möst is the ideal conductor of his fellow Austrian’s work. Some will travel to the Lincoln Center Festival to catch them. But there is another venue, perfect for a summer sojourn. Blossom, the orchestra’s summer home in a bucolic Ohio setting, a kind of Midwestern Tanglewood, if you will. Franz will conduct Brucker’s 8th on July 9 at Blossom. July 10, Franz will pair Bruckner with John Adams, as he is doing in New York, with a performance of the former’s Symphony No. 9 and Adams’ Violin Concerto. … Continue reading
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A Monumental Minimalist: The Cleveland Orchestra at Lincoln Center
Anton Bruckner‘s music has “a towering presence,” says Carolyn Warner, pianist and violinist with The Cleveland Orchestra. It is, she says, “monumental.” Warner, whose mother is Austrian, has a special relationship with Bruckner, having first encountered the Austrian composer when she was fresh out of school, at her first job, with the Buffalo Philharmonic. “William Steinberg came to conduct the Bruckner 4,” Warner recalls. “It was a transformative experience.” In July, Warner will play Bruckner, as The Cleveland Orchestra performs his symphonies 5, 7, 8 and 9 at the Lincoln Center Festival in New York City, led by Franz Welser-Möst, … Continue reading
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Close Encounter of the Horn Kind
About 60 people showed up at All County Store in Tamarac for a Horn Clinic with Cleveland Orchestra players Richard King and Jesse McCormick. It was mostly young people, with their horns, and parents in tow. McCormick got them started with a G, which when the students played it sounded like the “Om” of a yoga class, though King compared it to the “Ah” a doctor asks for along with a stuck-out tongue. The students then followed McCormick in a series of simple exercises, the ones the musician said he does first thing in the morning. Blowing the sequence of … Continue reading
I’m With the Band
In what critical theorists — not this correspondent, who’s not that high up the food chain — call “naive criticism,” it’s easy to mistake enthusiasm for paid publicity. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Enthusiasm can and should be a vital element of the critical project. If music cannot provoke enthusiasm, what good is it? And if criticism cannot reflect this, what good is that as well? There is a place for separating the wheat from the chaff and that is one kind of criticism, the kind the theorists dismiss or don’t even think about. Best it be done … Continue reading
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What the Cello Sang
“When I first tried the cello, it really sang to me,” recalls Richard Weiss, First Assistant Principal cello of the Cleveland Orchestra. He was 10, “rather late for strings,” he says. At that time, Weiss, learned that the cello had been the favorite instrument of his father, who’d died when Richard was 5. “That sealed the deal, it gave me a connection to my father.” However, at first young Richard was more interested in sports — tennis and martial arts — than music. But by the time he got to high school, in Los Angeles when “public education was still … Continue reading
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Dead Composers/Live Audiences
“You’ll tell everyone about the clapping between movements, won’t you?” a concertgoer and Cleveland Orchestra supporter told me tonight. I pointed out that a forward opinion among critics has it that it’s OK to give out applause if one is moved to after a movement concludes. “I guess I’m a traditionalist,” the music lover said, still convinced that it was ignorance not enthusiasm that prompted the applause. But if you wanted to catch enthusiasm, you needed to have been at one of the Education Concerts this week at Knight Hall, where the Lemony Snicket The Composer Is Dead, scheduled for … Continue reading
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Rock the Rach
Horacio Gutiérrez brought down Knight Concert Hall tonight with the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2. Gutiérrez, an old friend of his was telling me during intermission, was known for what the friend called a “bombastic” style. Which could be a liability, except that it’s matched by amazing technique, and Rachmaninoff — and Tchaikovsky and others of the Russian persuasion — lends himself to bombast. The Concerto is a showpiece as well as a warhorse — I grooved on it when I was 17 — and, let’s face it, in Miami we love flash. So when the last note was struck, … Continue reading
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Endangered
Can ochestras be saved? Are they worth it? This morning, Friday, April 8, Joan Katz Napoli, the Cleveland Orchestra’s Director, Education and Community Programs, led a music business forum at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. She opened the session with ominous news. The Syracuse Symphony has filed for bankruptcy. This is typical, she pointed out. In the current climate, orchestras are endangered. The Cleveland Orchestra, as solid a musical ensemble as exists anywhere — it is Ohio’s biggest arts institution — “has had its share of troubles”, Katz told the music students at the forum. The response … Continue reading
Accordion Rules
At a donors’ event Wednesday, Joela Jones had a chance to show her accordion chops with some Astor Piazzolla compositions. It came as a surprise to at least one listener that the multi-talented Jones (piano, organ, celesta, if it has a keyboard she’s a virtuoso) was an accordionist, even more than she started out as a Miami accordion prodigy. The instrument once suffered from a cornball reputation, but in the past decades a resurgence of interest in accordion-driven roots music has lifted its profile. The tango is one — traditionally played on a sibling instrument, the bandoneón, which began its … Continue reading
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