Hannigan Conducts Strauss at Severance Music Center

HAYDN Symphony No. 44, “Trauersinfonie”

VIVIER Lonely Child*

LIGETI Lontano

STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration

Embodying music with an unparalleled dramatic sensibility, conductor Barbara Hannigan is an artist at the forefront of creation. Her much-anticipated Cleveland Orchestra conducting debut features an eclectic juxtaposition of works exploring mourning, loneliness, and transformation, concluding with Strauss’s exploration of the most universal of questions: What waits ahead for all of us?

*Not performed on Friday’s matinee concert.

The Cleveland Orchestra
Barbara Hannigan,conductor 
Aphrodite Patoulidou,soprano
 

Barbara Hannigan’s performance is generously sponsored by Tony and Diane Wynshaw-Boris

This program’s Concert Preview lectures will be presented by Rabbi Roger Klein, The Temple Tifereth Israel