CityMusic Cleveland

November 6, 2009
Dimnent Memorial Chapel

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This young chamber orchestra has been garnering attention around Cleveland for the past five years. Now they embark on their first tour ever and the Great Performance Series will be one of their first stops. Since 2005 James Gaffigan has been the Music Director of CityMusic Cleveland; he also serves as Associate Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, under Michael Tilson Thomas. The performance will feature the highly acclaimed young cellist, Joshua Roman performing Schumann’s “Cello Concerto.” The orchestra will also perform Mozart’s “Idomeneo Ballet Music” and Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 2.”

This presentation is supported by the Performing Arts Fund, a program of Arts Midwest funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, with additional contributions from Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs, General Mills Foundation, and Land O’Lakes Foundation.

“CityMusic Cleveland has a welcome habit of spoiling concertgoers new and otherwise. Under music director James Gaffigan...it
also galvanizes the works they face..”
The Cleveland Plain Dealer