COPLAND Suite from “Appalachian Spring”
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
ELLINGTON New World A-Comin’
COPLAND Suite from “The Tender Land”

This program of three quintessentially American composers paints a musical portrait of the country as they knew it: full of promises, tensions, and fraught beauty. ...

EASTMAN Symphony No. 2
MARSALIS Trumpet Concerto (World Premiere)
DVORAK Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World")

Music Director Franz Welser-Möst leads a celebration of African American music: the symphonic tribute to spirituals in Dvorak’s "New World" Symphony, Eastman’s minimalist Second Symphon...

ADAMS 𝘌𝘭 𝘕𝘪𝘯𝘰

Hailed as “intelligent, emotional and sometimes magical” by the BBC, John Adams’s El Nino imagines a modern-day miracle, retelling the story of Handel’s Messiah through a constellation of references ranging from medieval chant to contemporary Latin American poetry. In conversation,...

LOGGINS-HULL Can you see? (World Premiere)
BARBER Cello Concerto

A Cleveland Orchestra commission by Allison Loggins-Hull and Alisa Weilerstein’s rendition of Barber’s technically demanding yet infinitely rewarding Cello Concerto take center stage in this captivating program, conducted by Music ...