HAYDN Symphony No. 44, “Trauersinfonie”
VIVIER Lonely Child*
LIGETI Lontano
STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration
The Cleveland Orchestra
Barbara Hannigan, conductor
Aphrodite Patoulidou, soprano
Embodying music with an unparalleled dramatic sensibility, conductor Barbara Hannigan is an artist at the forefront of creation. Her much-anticipated Cleveland Orchestra conducting debut features an eclectic juxtaposition of works exploring mourning, loneliness, and transformation, concluding with Strauss’s exploration of the most universal of questions: What waits ahead for all of us?
*Not performed on Friday’s matinee concert.
Barbara Hannigan’s performance is generously sponsored by Tony and Diane Wynshaw-Boris
This program’s Concert Preview lectures will be presented by Rabbi Roger Klein, The Temple Tifereth Israel