KeyBank Fridays@7 Series
The Cleveland Orchestra's popular Fridays@7 concerts continue with an early start time, no intermission, and an @fter Party unlike anything else in Cleveland. Fridays@7 concerts are less formal onstage and offstage. Following each Cleveland Orchestra concert, world music expert Jamey Haddad invites a selection of artists to collaborate in a unique musical celebration. Great music to round out your evening and expand your horizons.
If you’ve already attended a Fridays@7 concert, you know what a unique experience it is. If you’ve only heard about it, come and see what all the excitement is about!
Series subscriptions featuring tickets to all four Fridays@7 concerts are available now. Call the Subscription Office at 216-231-1111 during weekday business hours for details.
Boléro
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 7 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Nicolaj Znaider, violin
It begins softly. A single snare drum. Then, a flute. Gradually, each instrument joins in. One after the other. For the opening program, Franz Welser-Möst leads a program featuring Ravel's hypnotic Boléro. Plus superstar Nicolaj Znaider returns to Severance Hall to perform the passionate music of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.
World Music Presentations
Pre-Concert: The Jazz Unit, 11-piece jazz band
Post-Concert: Fridays@7 Dance Party
with PolkaFest with the Eddie Rodick Orchestra (Smith Lobby)
and “Hoe Down” with the Back Porch Swing Band
and legendary square dance caller Larry Ward (Grand Foyer)
Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony
Friday, December 9, 2011 at 7 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor
Peter Otto, violin
Joela Jones, organ
Our popular Fridays@7 series continues with an early start time, no intermission, and a post-concert party you won’t experience anywhere else in Cleveland. Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony, leads this concert in a program of musical fireworks, for violin, organ, and orchestra.
World Music Presentations
Pre-Concert: Alon Yavnai, Israeli jazz pianist
Post-Concert: Magda Giannikou and Banda Magda
Grieg Piano Concerto
Friday, March 16, 2012 at 7 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Gabriela Montero, piano
Giancarlo Guerrero returns to Severance Hall to lead this Fridays@7 concert featuring two masterfully exciting works, with pianist Gabriela Montero performing the keyboard wizardry of Edvard Grieg's melodically delicious Piano Concerto. Followed by Ottorino Respighi's orchestral showpiece The Pines of Rome, a spellbinding tapestry of ancient and modern Italian life written into colorful, unforgettable music.
World Music Presentations
Pre-Concert: Hilario Duran Trio
Post-Concert: Hilario Duran Trio, featuring students from Oberlin Improv
Stravinsky The Firebird
Friday, May 11, 2012 at 7 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Lionel Bringuier, conductor
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
The pounding rhythm, the glowing melodic lines, the astounding creativity imbedded in the music of Stravinsky's The Firebird ballet score comes to life again as the young French conductor Lionel Bringuier makes his Severance Hall debut. And Fridays@7 favorite artist Alisa Weilerstein returns to perform the polished, angular pyrotechnics of Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto.
World Music Presentations
Pre-Concert: Zion Congregational Church Choir
Post-Concert: Joey’s Confession, featuring Alisa Weilerstein and Jamey Haddad
Click on any of the dates above to learn more details
and read about the post-concert performers.
The KeyBankFridays@7 Series is sponsored by KeyBank,
a Cleveland Orchestra Partner in Excellence,
and is also made possible in part through
the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Media Partners: WQAL (Q104) and WNWV (V107.3)
Here’s how the evening goes:
@ 5 p.m.
Doors open for libations, creative cuisine and pre-concert music
@ 7 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra performs. There’s no intermission.
It’s straight-through like a movie. Exciting and to the point.
@8:15 p.m.
After the concert, stay for an after-party complete with live world music,
drinks, food, relaxing, and Friday fun.
Check out photos and video from past Fridays@7 concerts:
October 1, 2010
Franz Welser-Möst led the Orchestra in a concert featuring Beethoven's Third Symphony. The @fter Party included Brazilian-inspired world music ensemble Nation Beat and the local dance ensemble Passport Project.
December 3, 2010
Pinchas Steinberg conducted Mahler’s First Symphony. The evening also featured a pre-concert performance of Indian classical music, and the @fter Party with the New York Gypsy All-Stars, joined by world percussionist Jamey Haddad. Q104's Allan Fee began his birthday celebration and fans from Gordon Square’s Happy Dog came to Severance Hall by bus.
January 14, 2011
Franz Welser-Möst led Richard Strauss’s magnificently glowing self-portrait, Ein Heldenleben (or “A Hero’s Life”). For the @fter Party, Afro-Latin super-band Mango Blue performed.
