Weilerstein Plays Barber at Severance Music Center

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Alisa Weilerstein, cello

LOGGINS-HULL  Can You See? 

BARBER  Cello Concerto

PROKOFIEV  Symphony No. 4 (revised 1947 version)

Cleveland-born cellist Alisa Weilerstein joins Music Director Franz Welser-Möst to perform Barber’s “lyric and romantic” Cello Concerto, a piece praised for its “Brahms-like grandeur.” Written while Barber was serving in the U.S. military during World War II, the concerto is bookended by the world premiere of Allison Loggins-Hull’s Can You See? and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 4 (revised 1947 version), a fascinating work that was premiered in Boston before Prokofiev reworked it upon return to the Soviet Union. The Orchestra will perform the first version in this program.