Leonard Bernstein rehearses Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with The Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland Orchestra Chorus at Blossom Music Center, in July 1970.
I'm concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony & teach music at Indiana University. Next month, I'll be performing with members of the world's top orchestras (including LA Phil, NY Phil, Cleveland, Philadelphia and MET Orchestras + dozens more) all on one stage. AMA!
Hey Reddit! My name's Alex Kerr, I've been concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony since 2011. At 26 years old, I became concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. I went to Juilliard and teach music at Indiana University. I also love movies and golf!
Between June 11-19, I'll be performing with the Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra in San Diego, CA in a five-part open air orchestral Festival featuring the largest gathering of principal players and concertmasters in North America. You can view the 2021 All-Star Orchestra roster by clicking this sentence.
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Edit: I had such a blast answering your questions! I do have to run, but will do my best to circle back and answer more later today/tomorrow.
If you're in Southern California and interested in seeing the Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra where I'll be one of fourteen titled violinists, make sure to check out mainlymozart.org!
I'm a soprano for the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In three weeks, I'll be performing with Branford Marsalis and the Mainly Mozart All-Star orchestra, which features top musicians from the LA Phil, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Phil and dozens more top orchestras, all together on one stage. AMA!
I have to run, but I wanted to thanks everyone for the INCREDIBLE questions! If you want to purchase tickets, click here. Hope to see you there!
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Hey Reddit! My name's Gabriella Reyes, I'm a soprano with New York's Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. So excited for my first AMA!
In three weeks, I'll be kicking off the Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra Festival with Branford Marsalis in San Diego, CA, which will take place between September 11-18. It's a five-concert orchestral festival bringing members of the world's top orchestras together, on one stage.
Opening Night will commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11, presented in collaboration with the National Conflict Resolution Center. Concerts begin at $49 per four person pod. Opening Night will be live streamed! Click here for Opening Night details.
CEO Nancy Laturno will also be available to answer any questions that arise re: logistics, COVID testing protocols, etc.
Check out photos of the events by clicking this sentence.
Click here to learn more about the festival.
Click here to view the All-Star Orchestra full roster.
Proof: https://imgur.com/a/bGqKW6K
The Cleveland Orchestra performs together onstage at Severance for the first time since March 2020
My wife got me tickets to the Cleveland Orchestra. They’re playing a salute to John Williams, who is still very much alive as people pointed out in the version of this post I had to delete to make this one. Lol
MET Opera soprano is doing an AMA! In three weeks, she'll be performing in Del Mar with Branford Marsalis + the Mainly Mozart All-Star orchestra. Top musicians from the LA Phil, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Phil and dozens more top orchestras, all together on one stage.
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MET Opera soprano is doing an AMA! In three weeks, she'll be performing in Del Mar with Branford Marsalis + the Mainly Mozart All-Star orchestra. Top musicians from the LA Phil, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Phil and dozens more top orchestras, all together on one stage.
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I'm a soprano for the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In three weeks, I'll be performing with Branford Marsalis and the Mainly Mozart All-Star orchestra, which features top musicians from the LA Phil, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Phil and dozens more top orchestras, all together on o - [CrossPost]
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Bone Thugs n' The Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra
Violists—applications are open for Viola Masterclasses online program, led by Cleveland Orchestra members & CIM Faculty. Visit violamasterclasses.org for more info.
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Violists—applications are open for Viola Masterclasses online program, led by Cleveland Orchestra members & CIM Faculty. Visit violamasterclasses.org for more info.
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Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Center: 27 ways to picnic like a pro, what to take, what to leave at home
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Leonard Bernstein conducting a rehearsal of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 at Blossom Music Center in July, 1970. It was his only appearance with the Cleveland Orchestra; a benefit for the recently constructed summer home of the Orchestra. (Photo: Peter Hastings)
Cleveland Orchestra Chorus (yes, I sang in this concert with the Chorus) score from July 9, 1970 autographed by conductor Leonard Bernstein from Blossom Festival Concert. His only appearance with The Cleveland Orchestra.
I'm concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony & teach music at Indiana University. Next month, I'll be performing with members of the world's top orchestras (including LA Phil, NY Phil, Cleveland, Philadelphia and MET Orchestras + dozens more) all on one stage. AMA! - [CrossPost]
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Cleveland Orchestra and Blossom Festival Chorus in a performance of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" at Blossom Music Center, August 25, 1968.
The world-renown Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland Orchestra Chorus at Severance Hall.
Severance Hall with rennovations and expansion, 2000. Ovations for our finest, since 1918! The world renown Cleveland Orchestra.
Death of Mercutio, from Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. Performed by the Cleveland Orchestra. One of my favorite and pieces by Prokofiev
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Dance of the Knights from Romeo and Juliet - Prokofiev - The Cleveland Orchestra; Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
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Cleveland Orchestra Chorus - historic (July 9, 1970) - Leonard Bernstein autographed Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 2 choral score treasure. The Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus with Loma Haywood and Christa Ludwig, Leonard Bernstein, conducting, gave a matchless performance at Blossom Music Festival.
[February 13, 1921] The Cleveland Orchestra, visiting New York City, gives a guest concert to a packed house of 5,300 spectators.
Comparing BSO and Cleveland Orchestra Concertmaster Audition Requirements
Both top orchestras are auditioning concertmaster replacements for Malcolm Lowe (BSO) and William Preucil (Cleveland). By the end of October, in theory both orchestras will have selected their new leaders.
What is fascinating to me is the difference in the repertoire requirements.
BSO: http://bso.http.internapcdn.net/bso/images/uploads/ConcertmasterLiveRoundRepertoire.pdf
Cleveland: https://www.clevelandorchestra.com/globalassets/1920/documents/concertmasterrepertoirelistsept2020.pdf
Cleveland is more prescriptive while BSO is arguably more demanding with a third (more) modern concerto vs. the Bach Chaconne and the inclusion of a chamber music test.
Key differences in the non-solo repertoire:
- Cleveland asks for Mozart 7 and 39, Schumann 2, Strauss Don Juan (tough comparison against Preucil's famous take), Strauss Ein Alpensinfonie, and Bach Laudamus Te
- BSO asks for Brahms 4, Debussy La Mer, Dvorak 8, Mahler 1 (candidates may be wise to study Richard Svoboda's interpretation), Prokofiev 5, Shostakovich 5 (a personal favorite), and Strauss Til Eulenspiegel
To me, it seems perhaps that Cleveland places a higher priority (relatively speaking) on baroque and early classical era music while the BSO emphasizes more romantic and post-romantic era music. It also likely reflects the influences of the two music directors who both are advocates for new music and experienced European conductors of orchestral and opera music, but one (Welser-Most) being older and from a Viennese tradition while the other (Nelsons) is much younger and is influenced by Lativan tradition.
Both ask for Mendelssohn Scherzo from Midsummer, Schubert 2, Bach St. Matthew Passion, Beethoven Missa Solemnis Sanctus, Brahms 1, Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra, Tailor's Dance, and Ein Heldenleben (my favorite CM solo, but a beast), and Tchaikovsky Swan Lake.
Robert Shaw conducts final rehearsal for Severance Hall, Cleveland Orchestra premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with the Cleveland All-City High School Chorus and Children's Choir, March, 1968.
Leonard Bernstein autographed my score from our performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with The Cleveland Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, July 9, 1970 at Blossom Music Center. It was the only time he directed TCO. Links to the recording in my comments.
My framed choral score, autographed by conductor Leonard Bernstein from July 9, 1970 with the Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and Blossom Festival Chorus at Blossom Music Center. Bernstein's only appearance with the Orchestra was in this benefit concert for Blossom Music Center.
Tommy Shaw - Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) [Classic Rock] - Styx guitarist/vocalist Tommy Shaw's rousing 2016 solo turn with the Cleveland-based Contemporary Youth Orchestra - I love all those kids playing with him!
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Severance Hall - Home to the Cleveland Orchestra, built in 1931 from a design by Walker & Weekes. Interior design includes elements of Art Deco and Egyptian Revival. Also, a rare Ernest M. Skinner, 6,025 pipes, four manual organ (restored in 2000) in its original tonal state. Seating: 2,000.
Music Medicine | Debussy I The Cleveland Orchestra
#ClevelandOrchestra musicians have partnered with the Cleveland Clinic to create the #MusicMedicine series, sharing the joy and power of music with healthcare workers, patients, and our community. Each video includes a performance at a popular #Cleveland locale. Today we present String Quartet in G minor by Claude Debussy Luna Bakery. Enjoy 🎻 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okDDl7Vu80s
I'm Maestro Michael Francis. I lead three orchestras in America and Europe, including Mainly Mozart in San Diego whose musicians include Principal Players from the country's top orchestras (including the LA Phil, Cleveland Orchestra and the Met Opera). AMA!
Hello Reddit, very excited to be doing my first Reddit AMA. I'm Maestro Michael Francis. I used to play double-bass with the London Symphony Orchestra. After jumping in for various conductors at the last minute, I am now a full-time conductor and Music Director of The Florida Orchestra, the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego, and Chief Conductor of the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz.
I'm currently in the middle of conducting the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego whose orchestra features more Principal players from other great orchestras than any other Festival orchestra in the US. Tomorrow evening, I will be performing Mozart’s Davide penitente and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with violist Augustin Hadelich.
Upcoming guest conducting projects include the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, Detroit, Berlin Radio and Minnesota symphonies amongst others.
Connect with us on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/MainlyMozart/
You can view my website here: http://michaelfrancisconductor.com/
My Proof: https://imgur.com/a/UYWb061
Edit: Such a pleasure getting to chat with you all! I have to run to rehearsal, but will do my best to come back and answer any remaining questions later today or tomorrow.
Symphony No.2 - Jean Sibelius - The Cleveland Orchestra in Tokyo, 1970, live with George Szell conducting. Historical information about this tour in the youtube comments.
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An inside look at my monstrous piece for solo trumpet, performed by Jack Sutte of the Cleveland Orchestra. PDF available at nathanost.com!
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Cleveland Orchestra's Severance Hall, main hall interior, design by Walker & Weeks, 1931, interior includes elements of Art Deco, Egyptian Revival, silvery aluminum leaf ceiling based on 18 century English point lace. Seats: 2,000. Includes rare original E. M. Skinner pipe organ. [1536X2048]
For interested listeners, The Cleveland Orchestra is streaming encore classics broadcasts from 1968 to 2013 on their website. One of the 10 concerts posted is the July 9, 1970 Leonard Bernstein concert of Mahler's Symphony No.2. Other concerts are conducted by Aaron Copland and Robert Shaw.
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Robert Shaw conducts final rehearsal for Severance Hall - Cleveland Orchestra Premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with Cleveland All-City High School Chorus and Children's Choir, March, 1968.
Leonard Bernstein - Autographed Choral Score from Mahler Symphony No. 2 - performance by The Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Blossom Music Center, July 9, 1970. It was his only Cleveland appearance. Find link to this matchless performance in my comments.
I'm a soprano for the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In three weeks, I'll be performing with Branford Marsalis and the Mainly Mozart All-Star orchestra, which features top musicians from the LA Phil, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Phil and dozens more top orchestras, all together on one stage. AMA!
I have to run, but will do my best to circle back through the day! I wanted to thanks everyone for the INCREDIBLE questions! If you want to purchase tickets, click here. Hope to see you there!
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Hey Reddit! My name's Gabriella Reyes, I'm a soprano with New York's Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. So excited for my first AMA!
In three weeks, I'll be kicking off the Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra Festival with Branford Marsalis in San Diego, CA, which will take place between September 11-18. It's a five-concert orchestral festival bringing members of the world's top orchestras together, on one stage.
Opening Night will commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11, presented in collaboration with the National Conflict Resolution Center. Concerts begin at $49 per four person pod. Opening Night will be live streamed! Click here for Opening Night details.
CEO Nancy Laturno will also be available to answer any questions that arise re: logistics, COVID testing protocols, etc.
Check out photos of the events by clicking this sentence.
Click here to learn more about the festival.
Click here to view the All-Star Orchestra full roster.
Proof: https://imgur.com/a/bGqKW6K
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