*Olga Neuwirth’s Zones of Blue is not performed on Friday’s matinee concert
The word “epic” could have been coined to describe the music of Götterdämmerung, the heaven-and-earth-shaking culmination of Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle, complete with vengeance, magic fire, and the redemptive power of love beyond death. Orchestral excerpts from this operatic thrill ride meld with the instantly charming neoclassicism of Prokofiev’s First Symphony and the US premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s Zones of Blue, a clarinet concerto performed by its dedicatee and longtime friend of The Cleveland Orchestra, Jörg Widmann.
Jörg Widmann’s performance is generously sponsored by Astri Seidenfeld.
There will be a Concert Preview presentation one hour prior to the performance in Reinberger Chamber Hall with Francesca Brittan, Associate Professor of Music, Case Western Reserve University.