by Daniel Hathaway
The Cleveland Orchestra: Out of this World. Daniel Reith leads “a fun-filled concert of intergalactic proportions” (7:30 at Severance Center), CIM’s Pocket Full of Operas features four 15-minute chamber operas composed by CIM composition students, performed by CIM Opera Theater and New Music Ensemble (7:30 in Mixon Hall), and Raphael Jiménez conducts Oberlin Chamber Orchestra in Rossini, Nielsen — with clarinetist Juan Pedro Espinosa Monteros — & Ginastera.
PROGRAM UPDATE:
The Cleveland Orchestra announced on Thursday that pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet will replace Yuja Wang in its concerts on April 18, 19, and 20, to be led by guest conductor Klaus Mäkelä. Thibaudet will be featured in Gershwin’s Concerto in F. Milhaud’s Le Boeuf sur le toit will open the program. The second half, featuring Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, remains unchanged. [Read more…]