In Sunday’s (4/15) Plain Dealer (Cleveland), Zachary Lewis writes, “Music, plain and simple, is the reason to be excited about the Cleveland Orchestra’s 2012-13 Severance Hall season. No new series. No grand experiments. Just a year of great repertoire new, old, and surprising, as performed by the some of the best in the business. … This isn’t to say there’s nothing striking or novel about the upcoming musical year, announced today and beginning Sept. 20 with a performance by music director Franz Welser-Möst of Mahler’s Symphony No. 3. On the contrary, the 2012-13 season is chock full of interest. … The orchestra will underscore to an unusual degree the talent of its own members, showcasing individual players all over the ensemble in an array of concertos from masterpieces to world premieres. … Speaking of premieres, the 2012-13 season features them in abundance. On tap next year are the world, U.S. or local first performances of works by Stephen Paulus, Matthias Pintscher, Nino Rota, Rolf Martinsson, Jean-Fery Rebel, Johann Fischer, and Sean Shepherd, the orchestra’s current Young Composer Fellow. Bela Fleck, too, will stop by to perform his Concerto for Banjo, composed for the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and its music director, Giancarlo Guerrero, principal guest conductor of Cleveland’s Miami residency.”
Photo by Roger Mastroianni
Posted April 16, 2012
