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Nov 12 – 15

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Severance Music Center Presents

Nov 17

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Nov 19 – 22

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Nov 27 – 29

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Dec 3 – 5

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Severance Music Center Presents

Dec 9

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Dec 16 – 17

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Royal Illuminations

Baroque specialist Jane Glover returns to Cleveland for a regal program framed by rousing suites from Handel’s Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. The festivities begin with Britten’s shimmering song cycle Les Illuminations, featuring soprano Julia Bullock in her TCO debut. Stacy Garrop’s Spectacle of Light completes the program with a contemporary take on the 1749 celebration for which Handel wrote his own “fireworks music.”

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Brahms’s Requiem

Petr Popelka leads the combined forces of The Cleveland Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus in Ein deutsches Requiem, a contemplative and deeply moving reflection on life written as Brahms grieved the loss of his mother. The Orchestra also presents the world premiere of Distant Lands, an oboe concerto by distinguished American composer Adolphus Hailstork, written specifically for Principal Oboe Frank Rosenwein.


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