Tuesday (6/19) on the NPR blog Deceptive Cadence, Vivian Goodman writes, “The young musicians [of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra] have just embarked on a European tour. I caught up with the orchestra at rehearsal in the Cleveland Orchestra’s beautiful Severance Hall, just before its members left. … Henry and Serena Shepherd, 13-year-old twins who play cello and violin, respectively, are remarkably sophisticated about going to Europe on the ensemble’s first international tour in its 26-year history. ‘I’m looking forward to experiencing new halls,’ Henry says. ‘We’re really spoiled here with Severance Hall, but I’ll be interested to see sort of the European standard of a concert hall, and how our orchestra’s going to adapt to that.’ ” In an article by Zachary Lewis Monday (6/18) on the Plain Dealer online (Cleveland), violinist Haruno Sato and cellist Hannah Moses discuss their time in Prague, including “a visit to Terezin, a former concentration camp where many musicians lost their lives during World War II,” which they found “educational and very sobering … The students also offered some personal insight on their rehearsal and concert that evening in Prague’s Dvorak Hall, part of the Rudolfinum, a space apparently much different from the one they’re using to playing in. ‘It was such an amazing experience to play in such a legendary hall,’ they said of the events, led by music director James Feddeck.”
Posted June 20, 2012
