“Dull moments at Severance Hall are rare. Next season, however, they’ll be nearly non-existent,” writes Zachary Lewis in Sunday’s (3/6) Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH). The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2016-17 season is “stocked with intriguing repertoire and unusual programs…. Music director Franz Welser-Möst and a wide variety of guest conductors will present rare works by the likes of Martinu, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bernstein, Handel, Purcell, and Vaughan Williams…. Works by Copland, Ives, Bernstein, Herrmann, and Gershwin will be relatively plentiful next year, along with a violin concerto by Augusta Read Thomas and a new work by Anthony Cheung, the orchestra’s current Young Composer Fellow. Former assistant conductor James Gaffigan will lead a performance featuring Herrmann’s score to ‘Psycho’ and the original version of Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue,’ and associate conductor Brett Mitchell will preside over … an evening of works by Copland, Bernstein and Augusta Read Thomas, and the season finale, a live performance of Bernstein’s score to ‘West Side Story’ alongside the film … Picking up where they left off last season with Strauss’s ‘Daphne,’ Welser-Möst and the orchestra next May will perform another lush work by a core Romantic composer: Debussy’s ‘Pelléas et Mélisande.’ ”
Posted March 7, 2016
Photo of the Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst by Carl Juste/Iris Photo Collective
