Cleveland Orchestra to play in Salzburg, Grafenegg & Lucerne in August

June 27, 2016 by Daniel Hathaway

Music Director Franz Welser-Möst will lead The Cleveland Orchestra on its five-concert tour of European Festivals from August 18-24, marking their sixteenth international tour together. Here are the venues and program details.

Salzburg, Austria
Thursday, August 18, 2016, at 7:30 p.m.
Grosses Festspielhaus
with Leila Josefowicz, violin

THOMAS ADÈS Overture, Waltz, and Finale from Powder Her Face
ADÈS Concentric Paths (for violin and orchestra)
RICHARD STRAUSS Symphonia domestica

Friday, August 19, 2016, at 9:00 p.m.
Grosses Festspielhaus
with Anja Harteros, soprano

BÉLA BARTÓK Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
RICHARD STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration
STRAUSS Four Last Songs

Grafenegg, Austria
Saturday, August 20, 2016, at 7:00 p.m.
Wolkenturm (pictured above)
with Leila Josefowicz, violin

THOMAS ADÈS Overture, Waltz, and Finale from Powder Her Face
ADÈS Concentric Paths (for violin and orchestra)
RICHARD STRAUSS Symphonia domestica

Sunday, August 21, 2016, at 7:00 p.m.
Wolkenturm
with Luba Orgonášová, soprano

BÉLA BARTÓK Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
RICHARD STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration
STRAUSS Four Last Songs

Lucerne, Switzerland
Wednesday, August 24, 2016, at 7:30 p.m.
Kultur und Kongresszentrum Luzern

BÉLA BARTÓK Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”)

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.

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