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Beethoven’s Eroica

Thursday, October 13, 2022, at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, October 14, 2022, at 11 a.m.*

Saturday, October 15, 2022, at 8:00 p.m.

Sunday, October 16, 2022, at 3:00 p.m.

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, conductor

Karim Al-Zand (b. 1970)

Ernest Bloch (1880–1959)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

Lamentation on The Disasters of War 10 minutes

Schelomo, Hebraic Rhapsody for 20 minutes Cello and Orchestra*

Mark Kosower, cello

INTERMISSION 20 minutes

Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”) 45 minutes in E-flat major, Opus 55

I. Allegro con brio

II. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai

III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace

IV. Finale: Allegro molto — Poco andante — Presto

Approximate running time: 1 hour 45 minutes

*Not included in Friday’s performance, which is performed without an intermission

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Mark Kosower’s performance is sponsored by The Jean, Harry and Brenda Fuchs Family Foundation.

Thursday evening’s concert is sponsored by DLR Group | Westlake Reed Leskosky.

Thursday evening’s concert is dedicated to Marshall and Brenda Brown in recognition of their extraordinary generosity in support of The Cleveland Orchestra.

THE MUSIC

Conflict and Resolution

MUSIC CREATED IN TIMES OF WAR so often comes down to the question “Why?” On one level, we question the politics of war, an often confusing and complex web of governmental policies and prejudices. On another is the heartbreaking bloodshed and loss of soldiers and civilians. Why do we so often turn to music and art during these troubled times? Why can a tone poem, symphony, or concerto more clearly express what can be communicated in words, or, more to the point, beyond words.

The three composers on this program each confront — and transform — the question of “why” through pre-established musical forms. Karim Al-Zand’s Lamentation on The Disasters of War (2006) finds renewed resonance in Francisco de Goya’s tortured 19th-century etchings of Napoleon’s invasion of Spain; Ernest Bloch’s World War I–era Schelomo, Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra (1916), invokes the Old Testament wisdom of King Solomon; and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 (1803–04) finds inspiration — and later criticism — in the conquests of Napoleon. In contemplat ing war, they illuminate dual sides of humanity: not only to endure through unimaginable hardship, but to find meaning, purpose, and eventually beauty in it.

“It has only become even more pertinent to play these pieces together,” said guest conductor Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, who was born in Denmark to Polish/

Israeli parents. “There is clearly a Napoleonic connection between the ‘Eroica’ and Al-Zand’s piece, but as well there’s a connection between Schelomo by the Jewish composer Bloch with a modern-day composer of Arabic descent.”

He continued: “What we want to show is the sense of us humans as one, as one humanity. We see that in our age, sadly, more and more this split in our society, and it seems we become less and less able to talk to each other. Or maybe more importantly, we become less and

What we want to show is the sense of us humans as one, as one humanity. — Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, guest conductor

less able to listen to one another. And, for that reason, I think it’s beautiful that in the first half we have pieces by both sides of a conflict that I hope will soon be resolved, and that should have been resolved long ago.”

Al-Zand’s personal grief over the 2005 death of his cousin during the Iraq war is graphically conveyed from the first pages of his score, which depict the first plate from Goya’s series of etchings, The Disasters of War, documenting Napoleon’s invasion of Spain. Titled “Sad presentiments of what must come to pass,”

Detail from Plate 1 of The Disasters of War, “Sad presentiments of what must come to pass,” Francisco de Goya, 1815.

it shows an elderly man with lanky, outstretched arms asking something unanswerable. These etchings were created in the decade after Beethoven wrote his “Eroica” Symphony, during which the composer had Napoleon in his mind’s eye. The Jewish liturgical chants of Bloch’s Schelomo, the Hebrew name for the wise King Solomon, pose an emotional and cultural counterpoint in the program.

Beyond thematic connections, the pieces share brooding writing in the lower strings, glimmers of light that only intensify the music’s dark shade but also have momentary windows into a pyrrhic future, not answering the “why” question but coming to live with it.

Plate 18 from The Disasters of War, “Bury them and keep quiet,” Francisco de Goya, 1815.

ELEGY FOR THOSE LOST Szeps-Znaider was led to Al-Zand’s Lamentation from having conducted his widely played Luctus Profugis with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra — and wanting to further investigate the composer’s extensive output. The piece represents the changing sensibilities of two artists some 200 years apart. Al-Zand’s earlier music is elegant and witty, seemingly from a different world than Lamentation, suggesting what a seismic impact the external events of war have had on the composer’s inner life. This seems to echo the dichotomy between Goya’s courtly style, publicly embraced by the Spanish monarchy, and the arrestingly stark Disasters of War series, which was published posthumously.

Lamentation on The Disasters of War

BORN : 1970 in Tunis, currently lives in Houston, Texas

: 2006

WORLD PREMIERE: The original sextet was premiered in April 30, 2006. This version, for string orchestra, received its premiere in 2011 by Fulcrum Point New Music Project in Chicago. This weekend’s performances mark The Cleveland Orchestra’s first presentations of Lamentation on The Disasters of War

ORCHESTRATION: string orchestra

DURATION: 10 minutes

FRANCISCO DE GOYA (1746–1828) produced the series of 82 etchings known as Los desastres de la guerra (The Disasters of War) during the period from 1810 to 1820, as a reaction to the events which followed Napoleon’s invasion of Spain. His work is both a response to the horrific conflict he witnessed in the Peninsular War and a commentary on the ravages of war in general. What distinguishes The Disasters of War from earlier artistic treatments of bellicose subjects is the unflinching realism of its portrayal (it almost serves as a kind of documentary, eye-witness account) and Goya’s refusal to see either side in the conflict as having absolute moral superiority. Its powerful imagery is dark and violent, its message profoundly pessimistic.

My piece Lamentation on The Disasters of War is an elegy. It is inspired by Goya’s work and its modern-day significance, though it makes no attempt to literally portray the events depicted in the etchings. The piece is dedicated to my late cousin Husam Al-Zand, who was tragically killed in Iraq in 2005; to his surviving wife and children; and to my courageous family still remaining in the region, both in Baghdad and in the growing Iraqi Diaspora. Peace be upon them.

Karim Al-Zand, May 2006

Born in Tunis, educated in Canada (McGill University) and the U.S. (Harvard), and now a longtime composition professor at Rice University in Houston, Al-Zand wrote the music not with the specificity of an image-byimage gallery tour (as in Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition) but rather evoking the general sentiments of the series. He encourages the viewing of the etchings, but not during performances. His musical response has the uncompromising Expressionism of Schoenberg but also the searing introspection of Shostakovich, which is employed to express more than grief over the death of his cousin Husam Al-Zand, but concern for “my courageous family still remaining in the region, both in

Baghdad and in the growing Iraqi Diaspora. Peace be upon them.”

Originally written for string sextet and later arranged for string ensemble (the latter of which is presented this weekend), the piece begins with the instruments questioning and answering each other, evolving into unrelieved dissonance. The peace is manifested by tentative lyricism that defines the final third of the piece — in music that’s too wise to convey false certainty.

A VOICE OF WISDOM

The weight of wisdom and the far-reaching insights that come with it are what Bloch drew on in Schelomo, a creation

Schelomo, Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra

BORN : July 24, 1880 in Geneva, Switzerland

DIED : July 15, 1959 in Portland, Oregon

COMPOSED : 1916

WORLD PREMIERE: In May 1917, at Carnegie Hall with soloist Hans Kindler and the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Artur Bodanzky

CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PREMIERE: March 8, 1928, with soloist Victor de Gomez and conductor Nikolai Sokoloff

ORCHESTRATION: 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, english horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (suspended cymbals, cymbals, tambourine, tam-tam, bass drum, snare drum), 2 harps, celeste, and strings, plus solo cello

DURATION: 20 minutes

IT IS NOT MY PURPOSE , nor my desire to attempt a “reconstruction” of Jewish music or to base my works on melodies more or less authentic. I am not an archaeologist. I hold it of first importance to write good, genuine music, my music. It is the Jewish soul that interests me, the complex, glowing, agitated soul, that I feel vibrating throughout the Bible; the freshness and naiveté of the Patriarchs; the violence that is evident in the prophetic books; the Jew’s savage love of justice; the despair of the preacher in Jerusalem; the sorrow and immensity of the Book of Job; the sensuality of the Song of Songs. All this is in us; all this is in me, and it is the better part of me. It is in all this that I endeavor to hear in myself and to transcribe in my music; the venerable emotion of the race that slumbers way down in our soul.

Ernest Bloch, in a 1917 letter to Boston Symphony Orchestra program annotator Philip Hale

that has some distant antecedents but is such a unique synthesis of elements that no major composer attempted anything like it since. The interplay between soloist and orchestra suggest Berlioz’s Harold in Italy, a dramatic symphony featuring a solo viola as the title character, more than a traditional concerto. Meanwhile. the pictorial specificity and orchestral grandeur may be drawn from Richard Strauss’s tone poems. The solo cello represents Solomon — in what the composer described as “a meditative voice, tragically alone” — laboring under the blinding realization that “all is vanity.” The context of being composed

during World War I — amid its senseless origins and world-devastating upheaval — can’t help but be heard in the orchestra. The hectic instrumental writing has been described as a Tower of Babel, or as close as any depiction of an argumentative society that refuses to reach agreement.

Unlike Strauss tone poems, Schelomo unfolds in three designated movements, each played without pause but featuring distinctive treatment of thematic material, some of which comes in broad, Hebraic-flavored melodies. Traditional

Plate 15 from The Disasters of War, “And there is no help,” Francisco de Goya, 1815.

Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”) in E-flat major, Opus 55

BORN : December 1770 in Bonn, Germany

: March 26, 1827, in Vienna

PREMIERE: April 7, 1805,

Vienna’s Theater an der Wien

October 21, 1920, led by

2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 3 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings

DURATION: about 45 minutes

I must live like an exile. In company I am assailed by the most painful apprehensions, from the dread of being exposed to the risk of my condition being observed. It was the same during the last six months I spent in the country. My intelligent physician recommended me to spare my hearing as much as possible, which was quite in accordance with my present disposition, though sometimes, tempted by my natural inclination for society, I allowed myself to be beguiled into it. But what humiliation when any one beside me heard a flute in the far distance, while I heard nothing, or when others heard a shepherd singing, and I still heard nothing! Such things brought me to the verge of desperation, and well-nigh caused me to put an end to my life. Art! art alone deterred me. Ah! how could I possibly quit the world before bringing forth all that I felt it was my vocation to produce? And thus I spared this miserable life — so utterly miserable that any sudden change may reduce me at any moment from my best condition into the worst. It is decreed that I must now choose Patience for my guide!

Ludwig van Beethoven, from the Heiligenstadt Testament, written in 1802 as he was formulating Symphony No. 3.

chants, such as “Asher kidshanu” played by solo oboe among other instruments to depict when Solomon is at odds with a cantor, appear; shofarlike calls are an essential part of the piece; and bitterness and despair are prevalent in what Bloch described as his most pessimistic work — though only up to a point. The third movement’s emergence into the key of B-flat is what Bloch described as “a glimpse of heaven.”

From a strictly musical standpoint, one is continually fascinated with how the composer bends time. Initially, the main melody is contoured with triplets — three notes squeezed into a metric length that usually accommodates two — suggesting how Solomon continually sees beyond the temporal realm before him. As the piece goes on, Bloch uses that technique ever more extravagantly, fitting ever more notes into spaces that are usually occupied by far fewer. To the average listener, Bloch’s time-bending techniques create a tension that holds the ear in thrall. The piece sounds remarkably modern, as does so much else in the output of this under-represented though major figure in 20th-century music.

A WATERSHED SYMPHONY

The final work on the program is Beethoven’s ever-modern Symphony No. 3, which Szeps-Znaider rightly called, “one of the watershed moments in symphonic music, one of the most glorious pieces of music ever written.”

But any cause and effect between the Napoleonic wars that began in 1802 and the final composition is hard to pin down, and Beethoven’s works often had a long and circuitous gestation. His politics were fluid and expressed publicly with an eye for not offending his aristocratic sponsors. One of the most-circulated anecdotes of Beethoven’s biography is his dedication of this symphony to Napoleon only to angrily revoke it when Napoleon made himself emperor: “So he is no more than a common mortal! Now he, too, will tread underfoot all the rights of man [and] indulge only his ambition; now he will think himself superior to all men [and] become a tyrant!” Or so he said according to two eyewitnesses of that moment: Ferdinand Ries and Anton Schindler.

Biographers say that Beethoven didn’t completely turn against Napoleon until the bombardment of Vienna in 1809, which had to have been particularly torturous for the composer, coupled with the aural distortions of his hearing loss. In the bigger picture, Beethoven was appalled at the atrocities of the French Revolution — his idealistic belief in the brotherhood of man overcome by the revulsion at the slaughter of innocents that comes with war of any sort. Beethoven scholar Lewis Lockwood credits the second movement, the famous Funeral March, for introducing “death and commemoration into the genre of the symphony for the first time.” The unfiltered intensity of the music lifts the genre out of the more safely packaged Classical-era

symphonies of Mozart and Haydn and ushers in the simmering emotions of a new burgeoning Romantic era. Music, which was supposed to be more pleasurable than biting, grew teeth in Symphony No. 3, and along with them a purposeful sense of historic inevitability.

The second movement begins with Beethoven’s fallback template, themeand-variations form, which gives way to a monumental lament in the middle, and then returns to the original theme with ever-more-intensified tragedy, or, to quote Lockwood, crumbling “into short phrases interspersed with silences.” This is one of Beethoven’s greatest inventions, a succession of ideas that don’t seem to belong in the same piece much less in the same movement, yet they unfold seamlessly. One could hear it as a triumph of compositional virtuosity, though the movement is clearly driven

by an inner imperative that demanded compositional virtuosity.

The rest of the symphony is a triumph of diversity amid an expanded, even revolutionary sense of unity. Gustav Mahler’s dictum that a symphony could encompass the entire world has a ready precursor in Beethoven. The heroic first movement leads to the other side of triumph, which is the tragedy conveyed by the previously discussed second movement. From there, the breathless tempo and offhanded wit of the third movement plus the light-hearted final movement borrowed from his Creatures of Prometheus ballet makes the “Eroica” the symphony that has everything.

David Patrick Stearns is a music journalist who currently writes for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Classical Voice North America, MusicalAmerica.com, Gramophone magazine, and others. A native of Sycamore, Illinois, he now resides in Brooklyn.

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider

ACCLAIMED CONDUCTOR Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider enters his second season as music director of the Orchestre national de Lyon this fall. He regularly conducts the world’s leading orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, Germany’s Bamberg Symphony, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. More recently, he has led opera productions at the Semperoper Dresden, Royal Danish Opera, and Zurich Opera House.

A virtuoso violinist as well, Mr. SzepsZnaider maintains his reputation with a busy calendar of concerto and recital engagements. During recent seasons, he appeared as soloist with Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Orchestre national de France, and the Vienna Symphony, and performed the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas with Rudolf Buchbinder at Vienna’s Musikverein.

Mr. Szeps-Znaider enjoys a strong relationship with the London Symphony Orchestra, an orchestra he has worked with extensively both as conductor and soloist. Together they recorded the complete Mozart Violin Concertos, with The Strad praising it as “possibly among the most exquisite violin sound ever captured on disc.”

His extensive discography also includes the Beethoven and Mendelssohn Concertos with Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Brahms and Korngold Concertos with

Valery Gergiev and the Vienna Philharmonic, the Elgar Concerto in B minor with Sir Colin Davis and the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Mendelssohn Concerto on DVD with Riccardo Chailly and Leipzig’s Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Nielsen Violin Concerto with Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic, and the Prokofiev Concerto No. 2 and Glazunov Concerto with Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, Mr. Szeps-Znaider has recorded the complete works of Brahms for violin and piano with Yefim Bronfman.

Passionate about supporting the next generation of musical talent, he is competition president of the Carl Nielsen International Competition in Odense, Denmark.

and Toledo, as well as Columbus Pro Musica and the Oregon Mozart Players. During the coronavirus pandemic he performed the complete Bach Cello Suites at Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland to raise money for those affected by Covid-19 as part of his ongoing Bach for Humanity initiative, which aims to bring people of diverse socioeconomic backgrounds together through presentations of Bach’s music.

MARK KOSOWER JOINED The Cleveland Orchestra as principal cello in 2010.

Described as “a virtuoso of staggering prowess” by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, he is a consummate artist, equally known as a recital and concerto soloist and chamber musician. Prior to his appointment in Cleveland, he was solo cellist of the Bamberg Symphony in Germany (2006–10).

In recent seasons, Mr. Kosower has appeared as soloist with the symphony orchestras of Buffalo, Canton, Columbus, Dayton, Indianapolis, Naples, Phoenix,

Mr. Kosower is a frequent guest at international chamber music festivals, including Santa Fe, Eastern Music, North Shore Chamber Music, Japan’s Pacific Music Festival, Colorado College’s Summer Music Festival, and the Seattle Chamber Music Society; and is a soughtafter teacher. He has recorded for the Ambitus, Delos, and VAI labels. For Naxos International, he recorded the complete music for solo cello by Alberto Ginastera, the first cellist to do so.

Born in Wisconsin, Mark Kosower began studying cello at the age of one-and-a-half with his father who studied with Ernst Silberstein, principal cello of The Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell. He later studied with János Starker at Indiana University and with Joel Krosnick at The Juilliard School. Among his many accolades are an Avery Fisher Career Grant, a Sony Grant, and grand prize in the Irving M. Klein International String Competition.

CONCERT

CONCERT

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2022, 8 PM

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2022, 8 PM

Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Concert Hall Severance Music Center

Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Concert Hall Severance Music Center

11001 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106

11001 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106

The Israel Philharmonic is the leading orchestra in Israel and a world-class symphonic ensemble. Founded in 1936 by famed Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman, the philharmonic is based in Tel Aviv and performs throughout Israel and internationally.

The Israel Philharmonic is the leading orchestra in Israel and a world-class symphonic ensemble. Founded in 1936 by famed Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman, the philharmonic is based in Tel Aviv and performs throughout Israel and internationally.

Led by music director Lahav Shani, the program will feature some of the classics by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, Romeo and Juliet, and Symphony No. 5.

Led by music director Lahav Shani, the program will feature some of the classics by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, Romeo and Juliet, and Symphony No. 5.

The Jewish Federation of Cleveland looks forward to launching the community’s “Israel at 75” celebration series with this performance of the Israel Philharmonic.

The Jewish Federation of Cleveland looks forward to launching the community’s “Israel at 75” celebration series with this performance of the Israel Philharmonic.

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ORCHESTRA

Franz Welser-Möst, MUSIC DIRECTOR

Kelvin Smith Family Chair

FIRST VIOLINS

Peter Otto

FIRST ASSOCIATE

CONCERTMASTER

Virginia M. Lindseth, PhD, Chair

Jung-Min Amy Lee

ASSOCIATE

CONCERTMASTER

Gretchen D. and Ward Smith Chair

Jessica Lee

ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER

Clara G. and George P. Bickford Chair

Stephen Tavani

ASSISTANT

CONCERTMASTER

Wei-Fang Gu

Drs. Paul M. and Renate H. Duchesneau Chair Kim Gomez Elizabeth and Leslie Kondorossy Chair Chul-In Park Harriet T. and David L. Simon Chair Miho Hashizume Theodore Rautenberg Chair

Jeanne Preucil Rose

Larry J.B. and Barbara S. Robinson Chair

Alicia Koelz Oswald and Phyllis Lerner Gilroy Chair

Yu Yuan

Patty and John Collinson Chair

Isabel Trautwein Trevor and Jennie Jones Chair

Katherine Bormann

Analisé Denise Kukelhan

Gladys B. Goetz Chair

Zhan Shu

SECOND VIOLINS

Stephen Rose*

Alfred M. and Clara T. Rankin Chair

Eli Matthews1

Patricia M. Kozerefski and Richard J. Bogomolny Chair

Sonja Braaten Molloy Carolyn Gadiel Warner

Elayna Duitman

Ioana Missits

Jeffrey Zehngut

Vladimir Deninzon

Sae Shiragami

Scott Weber

Kathleen Collins

Beth Woodside

Emma Shook

Dr. Jeanette Grasselli Brown and Dr. Glenn R. Brown Chair

Yun-Ting Lee

Jiah Chung Chapdelaine

VIOLAS

Wesley Collins* Chaillé H. and Richard B. Tullis Chair

Lynne Ramsey1 Charles M. and Janet G. Kimball Chair Stanley Konopka2 Mark Jackobs Jean Wall Bennett Chair Lisa Boyko Richard and Nancy Sneed Chair Richard Waugh

Lembi Veskimets The Morgan Sisters Chair Eliesha Nelson Joanna Patterson Zakany William Bender Gareth Zehngut

CELLOS

Mark Kosower* Louis D. Beaumont Chair Richard Weiss1 The GAR Foundation Chair Charles Bernard2 Helen Weil Ross Chair Bryan Dumm Muriel and Noah Butkin Chair

Tanya Ell Thomas J. and Judith Fay Gruber Chair Ralph Curry Brian Thornton William P. Blair III Chair David Alan Harrell Martha Baldwin Dane Johansen Paul Kushious

BASSES

Maximilian Dimoff* Clarence T. Reinberger Chair

Derek Zadinsky2

Mark Atherton

Thomas Sperl Henry Peyrebrune Charles Barr Memorial Chair

Charles Carleton Scott Dixon Charles Paul

HARP

Trina Struble* Alice Chalifoux Chair

FLUTES

Joshua Smith* Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Chair

Saeran St. Christopher Jessica Sindell2 Austin B. and Ellen W. Chinn Chair Mary Kay Fink

PICCOLO

Mary Kay Fink Anne M. and M. Roger Clapp Chair

OBOES

Frank Rosenwein* Edith S. Taplin Chair Corbin Stair Sharon and Yoash Wiener Chair

Jeffrey Rathbun2 Everett D. and Eugenia S. McCurdy Chair Robert Walters

ENGLISH HORN

Robert Walters Samuel C. and Bernette K. Jaffe Chair

CLARINETS

Afendi Yusuf* Robert Marcellus Chair Robert Woolfrey Victoire G. and Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. Chair Daniel McKelway2 Robert R. and Vilma L. Kohn Chair

Amy Zoloto

E-FLAT CLARINET

Daniel McKelway Stanley L. and Eloise M. Morgan Chair

BASS CLARINET

Amy Zoloto Myrna and James Spira Chair

BASSOONS

John Clouser* Louise Harkness Ingalls Chair

Gareth Thomas

Barrick Stees2 Sandra L. Haslinger Chair

Jonathan Sherwin

CONTRABASSOON

Jonathan Sherwin

HORNS

Nathaniel Silberschlag* George Szell Memorial Chair

Richard King

TRUMPETS

Michael Sachs*

Robert and Eunice Podis Weiskopf Chair

Jack Sutte

Lyle Steelman2

James P. and Dolores D. Storer Chair

Michael Miller

CORNETS

Michael Sachs*

Mary Elizabeth and G. Robert Klein Chair

Michael Miller

TROMBONES

Brian Wendel*

Gilbert W. and Louise I. Humphrey Chair

Shachar Israel2

EUPHONIUM & BASS TRUMPET

Richard Stout

TUBA

Yasuhito Sugiyama*

Nathalie C. Spence and Nathalie S. Boswell Chair

TIMPANI

Paul Yancich*

Otto G. and Corinne T. Voss Chair

PERCUSSION

Marc Damoulakis*

Margaret Allen Ireland Chair

Donald Miller

Thomas Sherwood

KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS

Carolyn Gadiel Warner Marjory and Marc L. Swartzbaugh Chair

LIBRARIANS

Michael Ferraguto

Joe and Marlene Toot Chair

Donald Miller

ENDOWED CHAIRS

CURRENTLY

UNOCCUPIED

Elizabeth Ring and William Gwinn Mather Chair Blossom-Lee Chair

Paul and Lucille Jones Chair

James and Donna Reid Chair

Mary E. and F. Joseph Callahan Chair

Sunshine Chair

Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Smucker Chair

Rudolf Serkin Chair

Frances P. and Chester C. Bolton Chair

* Principal

Principal

This roster lists full-time members of The Cleveland Orchestra. The number and seating of musicians onstage varies depending on the piece being performed. Seating within the string sections rotates on a periodic basis.

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OCT 13, 14, 15, 16

BEETHOVEN’S EROICA

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, conductor Mark Kosower, cello*

AL-ZAND Lamentation on The Disasters of War

BLOCH Schelomo, Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra*

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”)

* not part of Friday Matinee concert

OCT 20, 22

AN ALPINE SYMPHONY

Daniel Harding, conductor Antoine Tamestit, viola

WIDMANN Viola Concerto STRAUSS Eine Alpensinfonie

OCT 27, 28, 29

GERSTEIN PLAYS SCHUMANN

Edward Gardner, conductor Kirill Gerstein, piano

BENJAMIN Ringed by a Flat Horizon SCHUMANN Piano Concerto DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 7

NOV 12

ISRAEL

Don’t miss a moment

NOV 17, 18, 19

EL NIÑO

John Adams, conductor

Lauren Snouffer, soprano

Josefina Maldonado, mezzo-soprano

Davóne Tines, bass-baritone

Daniel Bubeck, countertenor

Brian Cummings, countertenor

Nathan Medley, countertenor Cleveland Orchestra Chorus Cleveland Orchestra Children’s Chorus

ADAMS El Niño

NOV 25, 26, 27

THE FIREBIRD

Thomas Søndergård, conductor

Stefan Jackiw, violin

BRITTEN Violin Concerto No. 1

STRAVINSKY The Firebird (complete ballet)

DEC 1, 2, 3

ELGAR AND WALTON

Vasily Petrenko, conductor Behzod Abduraimov, piano*

ELGAR Cockaigne (“In London Town”)

PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 2* WALTON Symphony No. 1 * not part of Friday Matinee concert

WINTER

JAN 5, 7 NIELSEN AND HAYDN

Alan Gilbert, conductor

Paul Yancich, timpani

Liv Redpath, soprano

Justin Austin, baritone

OLIVERIO Timpani Concerto

HAYDN Symphony No. 90

NIELSEN Symphony No. 3 (“Sinfonia espansiva”)

JAN 12, 13, 14

WELSER-MÖST CONDUCTS SCHUBERT

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

Joélle Harvey, soprano

Daryl Freedman, mezzo-soprano

Julian Prégardien, tenor

Martin Mitterrutzner, tenor

Dashon Burton, bass-baritone

Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

BERG Lyric Suite*

SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8* (“Unfinished”)

SCHUBERT Mass No. 6

* The movements of the Lyric Suite will be performed in rotation with Symphony No. 8

FEB 2, 3, 4, 5

BOLÉRO

Klaus Mäkelä, conductor

Truls Mørk, cello

SALONEN Cello Concerto

DEBUSSY Images

RAVEL Boléro

FEB 9, 11

MAHLER’S FIFTH

Klaus Mäkelä, conductor

CHIN SPIRA—Concerto for Orchestra

MAHLER Symphony No. 5

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FEB 16, 17, 18

BEETHOVEN’S SEVENTH

Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

Emanuel Ax, piano

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 18 (“Paradis”)

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

FEB 23, 24, 25 MOZART AND STRAUSS

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

MOZART Divertimento No. 2* SCHOENBERG Variations for Orchestra STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben

* not part of Friday Matinee concert

MAR 2, 3, 4, 5

PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Víkingur Ólafsson, piano

FARRENC Symphony No. 3 RAVEL Piano Concerto in G major MUSSORGSKY/RAVEL Pictures at an Exhibition

MAR 9, 10, 11, 12

MOZART’S REQUIEM

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

Christoph Sietzen, percussion Siobhan Stagg, soprano Avery Amereau, alto Ben Bliss, tenor Anthony Schneider, bass Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

STAUD Concerto for Percussion MOZART Requiem

SPRING

MAR 30, 31, & APR 1

INSPIRATION: THE TEMPEST

Thomas Adès, conductor

Pekka Kuusisto, violin

ADÈS Tempest Suite

ADÈS Märchentänze

SIBELIUS Six Humoresques*

SIBELIUS Prelude and Suite No. 1 from The Tempest*

* Certain selections will not be part of the Friday Matinee concert

APR 6, 7, 8

SHOSTAKOVICH’S FIFTH SYMPHONY

Rafael Payare, conductor Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

BERNSTEIN Symphony No. 2 (“The Age of Anxiety”)

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5

APR 13, 15, 16

MAHLER’S TITAN

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

DEBUSSY Jeux, poème dansé DEBUSSY Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra MAHLER Symphony No. 1 (“Titan”)

APR 20, 21, 22, 23

ALL MOZART

Bernard Labadie, conductor

Lucy Crowe, soprano

MOZART Overture to La clemenza di Tito

MOZART “Giunse al fin il momento... Al desio di chi t’adora”

MOZART Ruhe Zanft from Zaide

MOZART Masonic Funeral Music

MOZART “Venga la morte... Non temer, amato bene”

MOZART Symphony No. 41 (“Jupiter”)

APR 27, 28, 29

MARSALIS AND NEW WORLD

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Michael Sachs, trumpet

MARTINŮ Symphony No. 2

MARSALIS Trumpet Concerto DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”)

MAY 4, 6

WEILERSTEIN PLAYS BARBER

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

Alisa Weilerstein, cello

LOGGINS-HULL Can You See? BARBER Cello Concerto

PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 4

MAY 14, 17, 20

THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

Tamara Wilson, soprano (Minnie)

Eric Owens, bass (Jack Rance)

Fabio Sartori, tenor (Dick Johnson) Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

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PUCCINI La Fanciulla del West

(The Girl of the Golden West)

* Opera presentation, sung in Italian with projected supertitles

HEALTH & SAFETY

The Cleveland Orchestra is committed to creating a comfortable, enjoyable, and safe environment for all guests at Severance Music Center. While mask and COVID-19 vaccination are recommended they are not required. Protocols are reviewed regularly with the assistance of our Cleveland Clinic partners; for up-to-date information, visit: clevelandorchestra. com/attend/health-safety

LATE SEATING

As a courtesy to the audience members and musicians in the hall, late-arriving patrons are asked to wait quietly until the first convenient break in the program. These seating breaks are at the discretion of the House Manager in consultation with the performing artists.

PAGERS, CELL PHONES & WRISTWATCH ALARMS

As a courtesy to others, please silence all devices prior to the start of the concert.

PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEOGRAPHY & RECORDING

Audio recording, photography, and videography are prohibited during performances at Severance. Photographs can only be taken when the performance is not in progress.

HEARING AIDS & OTHER HEALTH-ASSISTIVE DEVICES

For the comfort of those around you, please reduce the volume on hearing aids and other devices that may produce a noise that would detract from the program. For Infrared Assistive-Listening Devices, please see the House Manager or Head Usher for more details.

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IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY

Contact an usher or a member of house staff if you require medical assistance. Emergency exits are clearly marked throughout the building. Ushers and house staff will provide instructions in the event of an emergency.

AGE RESTRICTIONS

Regardless of age, each person must have a ticket and be able to sit quietly in a seat throughout the performance. Classical season subscription concerts are not recommended for children under the age of 8. However, there are several age-appropriate series designed specifically for children and youth, including Music Explorers (for 3 to 6 years old) and Family Concerts (for ages 7 and older).

Cleveland Orchestra performances are broadcast as part of regular programming on ideastream/WCLV Classical 104.9 FM, Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m.

The Cleveland Orchestra is grateful to the following organizations for their ongoing generous support of The Cleveland Orchestra: National Endowment for the Arts, the State of Ohio and Ohio Arts Council, and to the residents of Cuyahoga County through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.

The Cleveland Orchestra is proud of its long-term partnership with Kent State University, made possible in part through generous funding from the State of Ohio.

The Cleveland Orchestra is proud to have its home, Severance Music Center, located on the campus of Case Western Reserve University, with whom it has a long history of collaboration and partnership.

© 2022 The Cleveland Orchestra and the Musical Arts Association Program books for Cleveland Orchestra concerts are produced by The Cleveland Orchestra and are distributed free to attending audience members.

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