The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2018-2019 season at Severance Hall will include the Orchestra’s first performances of Richard Strauss’ opera Ariadne Auf Naxos in a made-for-Cleveland production led by music director Franz Welser-Möst. Other highlights include the world premiere of a work by oboist Jeffrey Rathbun, the U.S. premieres of pieces by Hans Abrahamsen, Matthias Pintscher, Bernd Richard Deutsch, and Detlev Glanert, and the Orchestra’s first performances of works by four living composers. Read the complete press release here.
About Daniel Hathaway
Daniel Hathaway founded ClevelandClassical.com in September, 2008, after a thirty-one year tenure as music director of Cleveland’s Trinity Cathedral, where he founded the Wednesday Noon Brownbag Concert Series and Trinity Chamber Orchestra. A graduate of Harvard College and the Episcopal Divinity School, he also studied historical musicology at Princeton and Harvard Universities. Before coming to Cleveland in 1977, he served as head of humanities at the Sunset Hill School in Kansas City and as head of arts at Groton School in Massachusetts. In Cleveland, he has served on the music staff of Cleveland Opera, Great Lakes Theater Festival, and the faculty of Laurel School. As an organist, Hathaway has played recitals in the U.S., England, France, Germany, and Austria. He team-teaches Music Journalism at Oberlin College and Conservatory and is a member of the Music Critics Association of North America.