“The musical summer is starting to take shape,” writes Zachary Lewis in Sunday’s (2/14) Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH). “Along with its 2016 Blossom Music Festival, the Cleveland Orchestra now has released the details of its popular ‘Summers @ Severance’ series. Just as last year, the series in 2016 will consist of three Friday-night programs. Each evening, too, will entail pre- and post-concert concessions in and around the Severance Hall property. Music director Franz Welser-Möst will preside over the first evening, at 7 p.m. Friday, July 8. The program that night features the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, soprano Lauren Snouffer, and bass-baritone Dashon Burton in Brahms’ A German Requiem, along with Bartok’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. Next up, at 7 p.m. Friday, July 22, is the final round of the Thomas and Evon Cooper International Piano Competition, a high-level contest for young artists staged by Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. Jahja Ling will conduct as three finalists perform concertos with the Cleveland Orchestra while vying for a $20,000 first prize. Lastly, at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12, Baroque specialist Bernard Labadie will return to conduct a program of lesser-known works from the Baroque and early Classical periods.”
Posted February 17, 2016
