Cleveland Orchestra turns 100, goes to Carnegie Hall

(from a press release)

On January 23 and 24 The Cleveland Orchestra--celebrating its 100th birthday this season--makes its 223rd and 224th appearances at Carnegie Hall.  Under longtime music director Franz Welser-Möst, they give the first New York performance of Johannes Maria Staud's Stromab, which they premiere a few weeks earlier in Cleveland, and Mahler's Symphony No. 9. Staud, who was The Cleveland Orchestra's Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellow many years ago, has taken Algernon Blackwood's horror story “The Willows” as his inspiration. The second program is Haydn's The Seasons, with the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, soprano Golda Schultz, tenor Maximillian Schmitt, and baritone Thomas Hampson.

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, Music Director
Carnegie Hall
January 23, 8 pm
Staud: Stromab (Downstream) [New York Premiere]
[Co-commissioned by The Cleveland Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Vienna Konzerthaus, and Royal Danish Orchestra)
Mahler: Symphony No. 9


January 24, 8 pm
Haydn: The Seasons

Golda Schultz, Soprano
Maximilian Schmitt, Tenor
Thomas Hampson, Baritone
The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
Lisa Wong, Acting Director of Choruses