Interchanging Idioms

The Orchestra returns to Tokyo in a four-concert Residency at Suntory Hall Music Director Franz Welser-Möst leads four programs in Tokyo and Seoul Music Director Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra will embark on their tenth international tour together this fall, performing in Japan and South Korea . Pianist Mitsuko Uchida will join the Orchestra in Japan. The eight-concert, four-city tour begins with a performance in Sapporo, Japan, on November 10 and ends with a program at the Seoul Arts Center in South Korea on November 21. The centerpiece of the tour is a Cleveland Orchestra Residency at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, with four concerts at the acclaimed venue. Pianist Mitsuko Uchida will conduct from the keyboard in all-Mozart programs at Kitara Concert Hall in Sapporo (November 10), at Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Nishinomiya (November 12), and in concerts at Suntory Hall in Tokyo (November 14 and 16). Ms. Uchida will also be featured as soloist with Franz Welser-Mös...

Two classic silent films for the price of one! This concert features two Chaplin films with the musical score played in synchronization by the Colorado Symphony. Join the Tramp and "Scraps," Chaplin's animal co-star in A Dog's Life, as Scraps helps the Tramp and Edna toward a better life. The Kid is a heart-string-tugging story Chaplin himself dubbed "a story with a smile–perhaps, a tear." The Kid was not only a turning point in Chaplin's career, it was also an immensely personal film. Charlie Chaplin's influence on the evolution of the modern film was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his body of work when they honored the filmmaker by awarding him a second Oscar in 1972 for "the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century." CHARLIE CHAPLIN: A Dog's Life and The Kid CSO Goes to the Movies Mar 20 Scott O'Neil, associate conductor

The world premiere of Steven Mackey’s It Is Time is the centerpiece of So Percussion’s upcoming chamber recital at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall on March 25. Co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall and Chamber Music America, Mackey’s epic new work was written expressly for the pioneering quartet, and features staging elements and video by Mark DeChiazza. Mackey’s music “equally includes subtle metric shifts and rhythmic intricacies found in sophisticated contemporary classical music” (Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times ). The genre-defying composer is also a rock guitarist and Professor of Composition at Princeton, where So Percussion workshopped It Is Time with him last summer. By virtue of the Brooklyn-based group’s innovative attitude and technical chops, So Percussion – described as “astonishing and entrancing” by Billboard magazine and “brilliant” by the New York Times – is a natural fit for the new work, which, at nearly 40 minutes in length, presents considerable challenges. As Mackey explai...

Inaugural Series to Feature Maestro George Manahan Presenting Sibelius Symphonies Fridays, March 12 – April 9 at 8pm Last Friday, March 12, Classical 105.9 WQXR launched “Conductor’s Choice”, a special new series, broadcast as part of Symphony Hall, drawing on New York’s unique classical community and showcase creative insights and inspirations from those who are defining what is heard in the city’s concert halls and opera houses. Maestro George Manahan, Music Director of New York City Opera and recently-appointed Music Director of the American Composers Orchestra, presents works that hold a special significance in his own musical thinking. Each Friday at 8pm, beginning March 12 and running through April 9, Manahan will join Symphony Hall host David Garland to present the symphonic cycle of Jean Sibelius – one of the most revered and beloved cycles since Beethoven’s. Manahan will guide listeners on this epic journey through Sibelius’s symphonies, sharing the importance they ho...

The Cleveland Orchestra has announced its 2010-11 season. Under the leadership of Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, the Orchestra continues its local programming diversification with numerous initiatives to attract new audiences and support. Within a full schedule of traditional subscription concerts, the season will feature the new series that were introduced in 2009 including Fridays@7, Musically Speaking, and the Celebrity Series, alongside fully staged opera. Also in the coming season, the Orchestra will inaugurate a two week Baroque Festival in Severance Hall. Orchestra performances in public schools are an important part of The Cleveland Orchestra’s history. Franz Welser-Möst restored that tradition in the 2009-10 season when he conducted the Orchestra in two high schools in Cleveland and one in Miami . Hundreds of students who had never heard live orchestral music before were able to experience it for the first time. The Orchestra’s traditional Education Concerts at Seve...

Scottish Opera is offering audiences the chance to see something a little out of the ordinary this spring - Leoš Janáček’s The Adventures of Mr Brouček . Rarely seen in the UK and never before seen in Scotland, this comically offbeat opera comes hot on the heels of the Company’s revival of blockbuster La bohème . Scottish Opera has long championed the work of Czech composer Janáček, and this staging of Mr Brouček marks the completion of Scottish Opera’s presentation of the entire body of operas by the composer, which began in the 1980s. The Adventures of Mr Brouček is a surreal work that sees the less-than-sober Mr Brouček on an adventure through space and time – beginning with a fantastical trip to the Moon and ultimately leading him into the midst of the revolution in 15th Century Prague. Director John Fulljames’s staging gives a real poignancy to the elements of Brouček’s tale by updating it to 1968 - the year of the first US Moon landings and just prior to the attempt by the ...

Pianist Joyce Yang made headlines in 2005 as the youngest silver medalist in the history of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The 19-year-old also swept two additional awards, for best performance of a chamber work and best performance of a new work. Now 23, Yang says she's "having a ball" performing Beethoven, Bernstein, the big Romantics, and more as she "continues to dazzle audiences with her clarity and breadth of style" ( Duluth News Tribune , 1/15/10). Yang returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic this week for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 with conductor Edo de Waart. Her summer includes re-engagements at the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony (with James Conlon in Bernstein's Age of Anxiety ) and Aspen Music Festival (Tchaikovsky with Leonard Slatkin and a recital evening), as well as her debut in July with the San Francisco Symphony under Alondra de la Parra playing "Rach Three". "She's been a P...