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SEPTEMBER 2020 Weekend Broadcasts / Saturdays and Sundays

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Welcome For more than a hundred years, The Cleveland Orchestra has been part of the Northeast Ohio community — through thick and thin, from wartime to peace, in moments of sadness and triumph. Although much has changed in our daily lives and routines, the Musicians, Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, President & CEO and all of us at The Cleveland Orchestra remain deeply committed to the people of our great community. Music can lift spirits and inspire hope for the future.

While we cannot offer live performances at the moment, we are working to share our music and do everything we can to help make the world a better place. Through our longtime partnership with ideastream, we’re privileged to offer the people of Northeast Ohio — including listeners online — Cleveland Orchestra performances every day of the week, with weekend concert broadcasts on Saturday evening and Sunday afternoons, and with Lunchtime with The Cleveland Orchestra every weekday. Through these, we offer you the opportunity to turn your focus away from the here and now, and reflect on the wonder and beauty of musical performances from across our great ensemble’s history.

I hope these presentations will provide you with some musical nourishment for your soul — and a respite from each day’s challenges in these uncertain times. We wish you and your family good health — and together we look forward to The Cleveland Orchestra’s future live performances.

André Gremillet President & CEO The Cleveland Orchestra

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“I believe that it is important for each of us to discover the spark within us, to find the fire that matters, and to put that fire to good use — to make a difference in this world. It is up to each of us, it is up to you to do something with your life. But I firmly believe that great art and great music can help lead you to that moment of choice. Art can help identify what excites us and what makes each of our lives different. It can unite us with others in commonality and agreement. It can inspire and encourage the good in each of us.”

—Franz Welser-Möst

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Listening and Learning Online

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Weekend Broadcasts (St-Sn) Full-length concerts of The Cleveland Orchestra can be heard each Saturday and Sunday on ideastream WCLV Cleveland Classical (104.9 FM, or via online streaming of WCLV). These radiocasts have been featured on WCLV since 1965.

For details and programming for upcoming weeks, see the following pages, which include links to the full printed program books for recent concerts.

Weekday Broadcasts Lunchtime with The Cleveland Orchestra (M-F) The Cleveland Orchestra is featured on a noontime broadcast five days each week, including brief updates about the Orchestra and preparations for future seasons. Tune in now via www.ideastream.org/live/wclv

On Demand Broadcasts The Cleveland Orchestra offers past concert broadcasts for listening “on demand” at anytime via several options — including streaming radio broadcasts from radio station WCLV and, beginning in summer 2020, with a monthly set of “TCO Classics” focusing on a special selection of past concerts.

For more details, visit www.clevelandorchestra.com/classics and also www.clevelandorchestra.com/streaming

New Podcast Series The Cleveland Orchestra has recently launched a weekly series of podcasts, titled On a Personal Note. These podcasts feature Orchestra musicians talking about their journeys in music, focusing on music that has inspired or challenged them. For more details, visit www.clevelandorchestra.com/podcast

Social Media Offerings and Online Resources Since the spring, many Cleveland Orchestra musicians have recorded performances at their homes to post on the Orchestra’s social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube). In addition, the Orchestra has adapted its school-based Mindful Music Moments program to reach community members of all ages across all of its social media platforms and website. This summer, Mindful Music Moments have reached more than 300,000 people across The Cleveland Orchestra’s social media channels. For more, visit us online.

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Saturday, September 5 at 8:00 p.m. EDT T H E C L E V E L A N D ORCH ESTR A F R A N Z

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Severance Hall

Friday evening, January 16, 2015, at 8:00 p.m.

Saturday evening, January 17, 2015, at 8:00 p.m.

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor RYAN WIGGLESWORTH (b. 1979)

SEASON

Études-Tableaux [Study-Pictures] WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCES

Commissioned by The Cleveland Orchestra with support from the Young Composers Endowment Fund, generously established by Jan R. and Daniel R. Lewis.

INTERMISSION GUSTAV MAHLER (1860-1911)

Symphony No. 6 in A minor 1.

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Allegro energico, ma non troppo Andante moderato Scherzo: Wuchtig [Powerful] Finale: Allegro moderato

PROGRAM BOOK

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A Pilgrimage of Hope

2020-2021 SEASON

NEW - ATTEND IN PERSON or AT HOME! Your ticket allows you either to attend the concert in person, OR receive a password to watch the exclusive concert-video 1 week later in the comfort of your home.

Resilience

Allure

Delight

Elegance

Triumph

Celebration Vivaldi’s Four Seasons – rediscovered

Music for Troubled Times OCTOBER 8-11

The Harper’s Voice FEBRUARY 18-21

The Three Amandas NOVEMBER 5-8

Handel’s Israel in Egypt MARCH 18-21

A Fiddler’s Noël DECEMBER 12-13 & 19-21

APRIL 9-12 & 17-18

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Sunday, September 6 at 4:00 p.m. EDT T H E C L E V E L A N D ORCH ESTR A F R A N Z

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Severance Hall

Thursday evening, January 8, 2015, at 7:30 p.m.

Friday evening, January 9, 2015, at 8:00 p.m.

Saturday evening, January 10, 2015, at 8:00 p.m.

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor WOLFGANG AMADÈ MOZART (1756-1791)

SEASON

Symphony No. 41 (“Jupiter”) in C major, K551 1.

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Allegro vivace Andante cantabile Menuetto: Allegro Molto allegro

INTERMISSION MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937)

Daphnis and Chloé Choreographic Symphony in Three Parts part one Introduction and Religious Dance — Danse générale — Dorcon’s Grotesque Dance — Daphnis’s Light and Graceful Dance — Lycéion’s Entrance — Dance of the Nymphs (Nocturne) part two Interlude — War Dance — Chloé’s Dance of Supplication part three Daybreak (Introduction) — Pantomime (The Love of Pan and Syrinx) — Danse générale (Bacchanale) CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA CHORUS Robert Porco, director

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INTRODUCING THE CONCERTS

Bach, Music& God

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Beethoven — among the best-known brandnames in classical music. This month, The Cleveland Orchestra explores Bach’s greatness in ten days of programming titled “Bach in Focus,” encompassing two weekends of concerts at Severance Hall, plus several free community events.

Franz Welser-Möst’s idea for these performances is to focus on Bach’s achievements and genius. It is neither a programming of greatest hits (although some of those are included), nor exhaustive in breadth or depth. It is the start — and the continuation — of a conversation about the power of music, and about Bach’s influence, on other composers, and on us and our understanding of music.

Bach created hundreds of works, and many many masterpieces. He wrote in many genres — works for solo instrument, duets, small ensemconc bles, concertos, cantatas, choral pieces, pieces for organ and ssolo keyboard. Humorous and serious, convventional in form and stretching the imaginave ttion. Much of his output was religious, built within his own deep belief in God. Much also was work-for-hire, as an employee, often for the Lutheran church. Although he certainly wrote pieces for his own gratification or amusement, in his mind these were almost aassuredly also and primarily for God’s gratification tion, as His humble servant.

In addition to two weekends of concerts at Severance H Hall (Mass in B minor on October 16 and 18, and Hilary Hahn Plays Bach on October 23, 24, 25), Bach’s Missa Brevis (the first half of the Mass) is being presented in a free community concert on the evening of October 17 at the Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist in downtown Cleveland, and a free Bach Make Music! Marathon is offered on Saturday afternoon, October 18, featuring students and performers from area educational and performing institutions. Keep the focus, think, and enjoy!

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Saturday, September 12 at 8:00 p.m. EDT T H E C L E V E L A N D ORCH ESTR A F R A N Z

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Severance Hall

Thursday evening, October 16, 2014, at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday evening, October 18, 2014, at 8:00 p.m.

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

SEASON

Mass in B minor, BWV 232

by JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)

I. II. III. IV.

Missa (Kyrie and Gloria) Symbolum Nicenum (Credo) Sanctus Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, and Dona Nobis Pacem JOÉLLE HARVEY, soprano IESTYN DAVIES, countertenor NICHOLAS PHAN, tenor HANNO MÜLLER-BRACHMANN, bass-baritone CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA CHORUS Robert Porco, director CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA YOUTH CHORUS Lisa Wong, director

Please note that the concert is performed without intermission and will run about two hours in performance.

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Sunday, September 13 at 4:00 p.m. EDT Thursday evening, January 21, 2016, at 8:00 p.m.

Friday evening, January 22, 2016, at 8:00 p.m.

Knight Concert Hall Miami, Florida

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Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy

robert schumann

Piano Concerto in A minor, Opus 54

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1. Allegro affetuoso 2. Intermezzo: Andantino grazioso 3. Allegro vivace

LEIF OVE ANDSNES, piano INTERMISSION

Symphony No. 1 (“Winter Daydreams”) in G minor, Opus 13

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Reveries of a Winter Journey: Allegro tranquillo Land of Desolation, Land of Mists: Adagio cantabile Scherzo: Allegro scherzando giocoso Finale: Andante lugubre — Allegro maestoso

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ARTS@ HOLY TRINITY Franz Schubert born in Himmelpfortgrund (now part of Vienna) on January 31, 1797 died in Vienna on November 19, 1828

Michael Kelly, baritone & David Leisner, guitar Sunday, September 20, 4 p.m.

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Julian Anderson born in London on April 6, 1967

Organist Christa Rakich Sunday, October 4, 4 p.m.

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Richard Strauss born in Munich on June 11, 1864 died in Garrnisch-Partenkirchen on September 8, 1949

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Saturday, September 19 at 8:00 p.m. EDT

2005-06 Program No. 15 — Severance Hall Thursday evening, March 16, 2006, at 8:00 p.m.

Friday morning, March 17, 2006, at 11:00 a.m.

Saturday evening, March 18, 2006, at 8:00 p.m.

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor franz schubert (1797-1828)

Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, d.485 1.

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julian anderson (b. 1967)

Allegro Andante con moto Menuetto: Allegro molto — Trio Allegro vivace

Diptych [performed at evening concerts only] UNITED STATES PREMIERE PERFORMANCES

1. Parades 2. Pavillons en l’air

INTERMISSION

richard strauss (1864-1949)

Don Quixote, Opus 35

Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character DESMOND HOEBIG, cello ROBERT VERNON, viola

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Sunday, September 20 at 4:00 p.m. EDT T H E C L E V E L A N D ORCH ESTR A F R A N Z

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Severance Hall

Thursday evening, May 26, 2016, at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday evening, May 28, 2016, at 8:00 p.m.

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

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Stabat Mater, Opus 58 1.

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Orchestral Introduction, Solo Quartet and Chorus: Stabat Mater dolorosa Solo Quartet: Quis est homo, qui non fleret Chorus: Eja, Mater, fons amoris Bass Solo and Chorus: Fac, ut ardeat cor meum Chorus: Tui Nati vulnerati Tenor Solo and Chorus: Fac me vere tecum flere Chorus: Virgo virginum praeclara Duet, Soprano and Tenor: Fac, ut portem Christi mortem Alto Solo: Inflammatus et accensus Solo Quartet and Chorus: Quando corpus morietur

ERIN WALL, soprano JENNIFER JOHNSTON, mezzo-soprano NORBERT ERNST, tenor ERIC OWENS, bass-baritone CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA CHORUS Robert Porco, director

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Saturday, September 26 at 8:00 p.m. EDT T H E C L E V E L A N D ORCH ESTR A F R A N Z

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Severance Hall

Thursday evening, March 16, 2017, at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday evening, March 18, 2017, at 8:00 p.m.

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Fireworks, Opus 4 Apollo, Ballet Music in Two Scenes (for string orchestra) First Tableau: Prologue: The Birth of Apollo Second Tableau Variation d’Apollon — Pas d’Action (Apollo and the Three Muses) — Variation de Calliope — Variation de Polymnie — Variation de Terpsichore — Variation d’Apollon — Pas de deux (Apollo and Terpsichore) — Coda — Apothéose

Symphonies of Wind Instruments INTER MISSION

Threni: Lamentations of Jeremiah Soloists of SERAPHIC FIRE

Patrick Dupré Quigley, artistic director

MARGOT ROOD, soprano MARGARET LIAS, mezzo-soprano STEVEN SOPH, tenor

BRIAN GIEBLER, tenor JAMES K. BASS, bass CHARLES WESLEY EVANS, bass

CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA CHORUS Robert Porco, director

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T H E

C L E V E L A N D

Franz Welser-Möst MUSIC DIREC TOR

CELLOS Mark Kosower *

Kelvin Smith Family Chair

SECOND VIOLINS Stephen Rose* 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

Takako Masame Paul and Lucille Jones Chair

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 Dr. 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

Mark Dumm Gladys B. Goetz Chair

Katherine Bormann Analisé Denise Kukelhan Zhan Shu

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Alfred M. and Clara T. Rankin Chair

The GAR Foundation Chair

Charles Bernard2 Helen Weil Ross Chair

Emilio Llinás2 James and Donna Reid Chair

Bryan Dumm Muriel and Noah Butkin 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 Ramsey

Louis D. Beaumont Chair

Richard Weiss1

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Charles M. and Janet G. Kimball Chair

Stanley Konopka 2 Mark Jackobs Jean Wall Bennett Chair

Arthur Klima Richard Waugh Lisa Boyko Richard and Nancy Sneed Chair

Lembi Veskimets The Morgan Sisters Chair

Eliesha Nelson Joanna Patterson Zakany

The Musicians

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

Kevin Switalski2 Scott Haigh1 Mary E. and F. Joseph Callahan Chair

Mark Atherton Thomas Sperl Henry Peyrebrune Charles Barr Memorial Chair

Charles Carleton Scott Dixon Derek Zadinsky HARP Trina Struble* Alice Chalifoux Chair This roster lists the fulltime members of The Cleveland Orchestra.

The number and seating of musicians onstage varies depending on the piece being performed.

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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

HORNS Nathaniel Silberschlag* George Szell Memorial Chair

Michael Mayhew

Knight Foundation Chair

Jesse McCormick Robert B. Benyo Chair

Hans Clebsch Richard King Alan DeMattia TRUMPETS Michael Sachs* Robert and Eunice Podis Weiskopf Chair

Jack Sutte Lyle Steelman2 James P. and Dolores D. Storer Chair

Robert Walters

Michael Miller

ENGLISH HORN Robert Walters

CORNETS Michael Sachs*

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

E-FLAT CLARINET Daniel McKelway Stanley L. and Eloise M. Morgan Chair

BASSOONS John Clouser *

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Mary Elizabeth and G. Robert Klein Chair

Michael Miller TROMBONES Shachar Israel2 Richard Stout Alexander and Marianna C. McAfee Chair

EUPHONIUM AND BASS TRUMPET Richard Stout TUBA Yasuhito Sugiyama* Nathalie C. Spence and Nathalie S. Boswell Chair

Louise Harkness Ingalls Chair

Gareth Thomas Barrick Stees2 Sandra L. Haslinger Chair

Jonathan Sherwin CONTRABASSOON Jonathan Sherwin

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O R C H E S T R A PERCUSSION Marc Damoulakis* Margaret Allen Ireland Chair

Donald Miller Tom Freer Thomas Sherwood KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS Joela Jones* Rudolf Serkin Chair

Carolyn Gadiel Warner Marjory and Marc L. Swartzbaugh Chair

LIBRARIANS Robert O’Brien Joe and Marlene Toot Chair

Donald Miller ENDOWED CHAIRS CURRENTLY UNOCCUPIED Sidney and Doris Dworkin Chair Blossom-Lee Chair Sunshine Chair Myrna and James Spira Chair Gilbert W. and Louise I. Humphrey Chair

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Associate Principal First Assistant Principal Assistant Principal

CONDUCTORS Christoph von Dohnányi MUSIC DIRECTOR LAUREATE

Vinay Parameswaran ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR

TIMPANI Paul Yancich* Otto G. and Corinne T. Voss Chair

Tom Freer 2 Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Smucker Chair

The Musicians

Elizabeth Ring and William Gwinn Mather Chair

Lisa Wong

DIRECTOR OF CHORUSES

Frances P. and Chester C. Bolton Chair

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Franz Welser-Möst Music Director Kelvin Smith Family Endowed Chair The Cleveland Orchestra

Franz Welser-Möst is among today’s most distinguished conductors. The 2020-21 season marks his nineteenth year as music director of The Cleveland Orchestra, with the future of this acclaimed partnership extending into the next decade. The New York Times has declared Cleveland under Welser-Möst’s direction to be the “best American orchestra“ for its virtuosity, elegance of sound, variety of color, and chamber-like musical cohesion.

Under his direction, The Cleveland Orchestra has been praised for its inventive programming, its ongoing support for new musical works, and for its innovative approach to semi-staged and staged opera presentations. An imaginative approach to juxtaposing newer and older works has opened new dialogue and fresh insights for musicians and audiences alike. The Orchestra has also been hugely successful in building up a new and, notably, a young audience.

As a guest conductor, Mr. WelserMöst enjoys a particularly close and The Cleveland Orchestra

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productive relationship with the Vienna Philharmonic. He has twice appeared on the podium for their celebrated New Year’s Concert, and regularly conducts the orchestra in subscription concerts in Vienna, as well as on tours in Japan, China, Australia, and the United States.

Highlights of his guest conducting appearances in the 2019-20 season included performances of Strauss’s Die Aegyptische Helena at Teatro alla Scala, and concerts with the New York Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Mr. Welser-Möst is also a regular guest at the Salzburg Festival, where his work leading a series of opera performances has been widely acclaimed.

Franz Welser-Möst’s recordings and videos have won major international awards and honors. With The Cleveland Orchestra, his recordings include a number of DVDs on the Clasart Classic label, featuring live performances of five of Bruckner’s symphonies and a multi-DVD set of major works by Brahms. A number of his Salzburg opera productions, including Rosenkavalier, have been released internationally on DVD by Unitel.

In June 2019, Mr. Welser-Möst was awarded the Gold Medal in the Arts by the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts in recognition of his long-lasting impact on the international arts community. Other honors include recognition from the Western Law Center for Disability Rights, honorary membership in the Vienna Singverein, a Decoration of Honor from the Republic of Austria for his artistic achievements, and the Kilenyi Medal from the Bruckner Society of America.

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is today hailed as one of the very best orchestras on the planet, noted for its musical excellence and for its devotion and service to the community it calls home. The 2020-21 season marks the ensemble’s nineteenth year under the direction of Franz Welser-Möst, one of today’s most acclaimed musical leaders. Working together, the Orchestra and its board of trustees, staff, and volunteers have affirmed a set of community-inspired goals for the 21st century — to continue the Orchestra’s legendary command of musical excellence while focusing new efforts and resources toward fully serving its hometown community throughout Northeast Ohio. The promise of continuing extraordinary concert experiences, engaging music education programs, and innovative technologies offers future generations dynamic access to the best symphonic entertainment possible anywhere.

The Cleveland Orchestra divides its time across concert seasons at home — in Cleveland’s Severance Hall and each summer at Blossom Music Center. Additional portions of the year are devoted to touring and intensive performance residencies. These include recurring residencies at Vienna’s Musikverein, and regular appearances in European music capitals, in New York, at Indiana University, and in Miami, Florida.

Musical Excellence. The Cleveland Orchestra has long been committed to the pursuit of excellence in everything that it does. Its ongoing collaboration with Welser-Möst is widely-acknowledged among the best orchestra-conductor partnerships of today. Performances of standard repertoire and new works are unrivalled at home and on tour across the globe, and through recordings and broadcasts. The Orchestra’s longstanding championing of new composers and the commissioning of new works helps audiences experience music as a living language that grows with each new generation. Fruitful juxtapositions and re-examinations of classics, new recording projects and tours of varying repertoire and in different locations, and acclaimed collaborations in 20th- and 21st-century masterworks together enable The Cleveland Orchestra the ability to give musical performances second to none in the world.

Serving the Community. Programs for students and engaging musical explorations for the community are core to the Orchestra’s mission, fueled by a commitment to serving Cleveland and surrounding communities. All are being created to connect people to music in the concert hall, in classrooms, and in everyday lives.

Recent seasons have seen the launch of a unique series of neighborhood initiatives and performances, designed to bring the Orchestra and the citizens of NorthThe Cleveland Orchestra

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Each year since 1989, The Cleveland Orchestra has presented a free concert in downtown Cleveland, with last summer’s for the ensemble’s official 100th Birthday bash. Nearly 3 million people have experienced the Orchestra through these free performances.

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east Ohio together in new ways. Active performance ensembles and teaching programs provide proof of the benefits of direct participation in making music for people of all ages.

Future Audiences. Standing on the shoulders of more than a century of quality music education programs, the Orchestra made national and international headlines through the creation of its Center for Future Audiences in 2010. Established with a significant endowment gift from the Maltz Family Foundation, the Center is designed to provide ongoing funding for the Orchestra’s continuing work to develop interest in classical music among young people.

The flagship “Under 18s Free” program has seen unparalleled success in increasing attendance — with 20% of attendees now comprised of concertgoers age 25 and under — as the Orchestra now boasts one of the youngest audiences for symphonic con concerts anywhere.

Innovative Programming. The Cl Clev Cleveland Orchestra was among the first Ame American orchestras heard on a regular seri of radio broadcasts, and its Severseries anc Hall home was one of the first concert ance hallll in the world built with recording and h halls b bro broadcasting capabilities. Today, Cleveland Orc Orchestra concerts are presented in a varietyy of formats for a variety of audiences — incl including casual Friday night concerts, film scor performed live by the Orchestra, scores colla ll collaborations with pop and jazz singers, ball and opera presentations, and stanballet dard repertoire juxtaposed in meaningful con contexts with new and older works. Franz W lser-Möst’s creative vision has given the Wel Orc Orchestra an unequaled opportunity to exp p explore music as a universal language of com communication and understanding.

An Enduring Tradition of Community Support. The Cleveland Orchestra was born in Cleveland, created by a group of visionary citizens who believed in the power of music and aspired to having the best performances of great orchestral music possible anywhere. Generations of Clevelanders have supported this vision and enjoyed the Orchestra’s performances as some of the best such concert experiences available in the world. Hundreds of thousands have learned to love music through its education programs and have celebrated important events with its music.

While strong ticket sales cover less than half of each season’s costs, the generosity of thousands each year drives the Orchestra forward and sustains its extraordinary tradition of excellence onstage, in the classroom, and for the community.

Evolving Greatness. The Cleveland Orchestra was founded in 1918. Over the ensuing decades, the ensemble quickly

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grew from a fine regional organization to being one of the most admired symphony orchestras in the world. Seven music directors have guided and shaped the ensemble’s growth and sound: Nikolai Sokoloff, 1918-33; Artur Rodzinski, 193343; Erich Leinsdorf, 1943-46; George Szell, 1946-70; Lorin Maazel, 1972-82; Christoph von Dohnányi, 1984-2002; and Franz Welser-Möst, since 2002.

The opening in 1931 of Severance Hall as the Orchestra’s permanent home brought a special pride to the ensemble and its hometown. With acoustic refinements under Szell’s guidance and a building-wide restoration and expansion in 1998-2000, Severance Hall continues to provide the Orchestra an enviable and intimate sound environment in which to perfect the ensemble’s artistry. Tour-

ing performances throughout the United States and, beginning in 1957, to Europe and across the globe have confirmed Cleveland’s place among the world’s top orchestras. Year-round performances became a reality in 1968 with the opening of Blossom Music Center.

Today, concert performances, community presentations, touring residencies, broadcasts, and recordings provide access to the Orchestra’s acclaimed artistry to an enthusiastic, generous, and broad constituency at home throughout Northeast Ohio and around the world.

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Whatever greatness The Cleveland Orchestra has achieved is because of all the people in this community, from Cleveland and surrounding communities, who believe in what the power of music can do.

P H OTO BY R O G E R MA S T R O I A N N I

—Franz Welser-MÜst

MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION

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operating The Cleveland Orchestra, Severance Hall, and Blossom Music Festival OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Richard K. Smucker, Chair André Gremillet, President & CEO Dennis W. LaBarre, Immediate Past Chair Richard J. Bogomolny, Chair Emeritus Alexander M. Cutler Hiroyuki Fujita David J. Hooker Michael J. Horvitz Douglas A. Kern RESIDENT TRUSTEES Robin Dunn Blossom Richard J. Bogomolny Yuval Brisker Helen Rankin Butler Irad Carmi Paul G. Clark Robert D. Conrad Margot Copeland Matthew V. Crawford Alexander M. Cutler Hiroyuki Fujita Robert A. Glick Iris Harvie Dee Haslam Stephen H. Hoffman David J. Hooker Michael J. Horvitz Marguerite B. Humphrey Betsy Juliano Jean C. Kalberer

Norma Lerner, Honorary Chair Hewitt B. Shaw, Secretary Beth E. Mooney, Treasurer

Virginia M. Lindseth Nancy W. McCann Larry Pollock Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. Audrey Gilbert Ratner

Barbara S. Robinson Jeffery J. Weaver Meredith Smith Weil Paul E. Westlake Jr.

Nancy F. Keithley Christopher M. Kelly Douglas A. Kern John D. Koch Richard Kramer Dennis W. LaBarre Norma Lerner Virginia M. Lindseth Milton S. Maltz Nancy W. McCann Stephen McHale Thomas F. McKee Loretta J. Mester Dr. Tomislav Mihaljevic Beth E. Mooney Katherine T. O’Neill Larry Pollock Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. Clara T. Rankin Audrey Gilbert Ratner

Charles A. Ratner Zoya Reyzis Barbara S. Robinson Steven M. Ross Luci Schey Spring Hewitt B. Shaw Richard K. Smucker James C. Spira R. Thomas Stanton Richard Stovsky Russell Trusso Daniel P. Walsh Thomas A. Waltermire John Warner Geraldine B. Warner Jeffery J. Weaver Meredith Smith Weil Paul E. Westlake Jr. David A. Wolfort Dr. Anthony Wynshaw-Boris

N ATI O NA L A ND I N T E RN AT I O N AL T RUS T E E S Virginia Nord Barbato (New York) Richard C. Gridley Wolfgang C. Berndt (Austria) (South Carolina) Mary Jo Eaton (Florida) Herbert Kloiber (Germany) TRUSTEES EX- OFFICIO Lisa Fedorovich, Co-Chair, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus Operating Committee Barbara R. Snyder, President, Case Western Reserve University TRUSTEES EMERITI George N. Aronoff Dr. Ronald H. Bell David P. Hunt S. Lee Kohrman Raymond T. Sawyer

Benjamin N. Pyne (New York) Paul Rose (Mexico)

Dr. Patricia M. Smith, President, Friends of The Cleveland Orchestra Todd Diacon, President, Kent State University

HONORARY TRUSTEE S FOR LIFE Alex Machaskee Gay Cull Addicott Robert P. Madison Charles P. Bolton John C. Morley Jeanette Grasselli Brown The Honorable John D. Ong Allen H. Ford James S. Reid, Jr. Robert W. Gillespie

PA S T BOA R D PR E S ID E N T S D. Z. Norton 1915-21 John L. Severance 1921-36 Dudley S. Blossom 1936-38 Thomas L. Sidlo 1939-53

Percy W. Brown 1953-55 Frank E. Taplin, Jr. 1955-57 Frank E. Joseph 1957-68 Alfred M. Rankin 1968-83

Ward Smith 1983-95 Richard J. Bogomolny 1995-2002, 2008-09 James D. Ireland III 2002-08 Dennis W. LaBarre 2009-17

TH E C L E V E L A N D O R C H E S TR A FRANZ WELSER-MÖST, Music Director

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ANDRÉ GREMILLET, President & CEO

Musical Arts Association

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THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA The Cleveland Orchestra’s Board of Trustees is grateful to the community leaders listed on this page, who provide valuable knowledge, expertise, and support in helping propel the Orchestra forward into the future.

ADVISORY COUNCIL Larry Oscar, Chair Greg Chemnitz, Vice Chair Richard Agnes Mark J. Andreini Lissa Barry Dean Barry William P. Blair III Frank Buck Becky Bynum Phil Calabrese Paul Clark Richard Clark Kathy Coleman Judy Diehl Barbara Hawley Matt Healy Brit Hyde Rob Kochis Janet Kramer David Lamb Susan Locke

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Todd Locke Amanda Martinsek Michael Mitchell Randy Myeroff George Parras Beverly Schneider Astri Seidenfeld Reg Shiverick Tom Stanton Fred Stueber Terry Szmagala Brian Tucker Peter van Dijk* Diane Wynshaw-Boris Tony Wynshaw-Boris * deceased

EUROPEAN ADVISORY BOARD Herbert Kloiber, Chair Wolfgang Berndt, Vice Chair Gabriele Eder Robert Ehrlich Peter Mitterbauer Elisabeth Umdasch

MIAMI ADVISORY COUNCIL Michael Samuels, Co-Chair Mary Jo Eaton, Co-Chair Bruce Clinton Martha Clinton Betty Fleming Joseph Fleming

Alfredo Gutierrez Luz Maria Gutierrez Maribel Piza Judy Samuels

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SEVERANCE HALL, “America’s most beautiful concert hall,” opened in 1931 as the Orchestra’s permanent home.

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Over 40,000 young people attend Cleveland Orchestra concerts each year via programs funded by the Center for Future Audiences, through student programs and Under 18s Free ticketing — making up 20% of audiences.

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Over half of The Cleveland Orchestra’s funding each year comes from thousands of generous donors and sponsors, who together make possible our concert presentations, community programs, and education initiatives.

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The Cleveland Orchestra has introduced over 4.1 million children in Northeast Ohio to symphonic music through concerts for children since 1918.

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