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Pianist Lang Lang to perform in Gala Concert at
Severance Hall on Saturday, October 11 with The Cleveland Orchestra
conducted by Franz Welser-M?st
Gala Chair Norma Lerner and Corporate Chair Beth Mooney lead annual
Gala Concert and dinner to benefit the Orchestra’s education programs
for the community
CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Orchestra announces details about its annual
Gala Concert taking place on Saturday, October 11, at 7 p.m. Pianist
Lang Lang joins music director Franz Welser-M?st and The Cleveland
Orchestra in the concert which features works by Tchaikovsky. The 2014
Gala is spearheaded by community philanthropist Norma Lerner as Gala
Chair and KeyBank Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Beth Mooney as
Gala Corporate Chair. Concert-only tickets are available through the
Orchestra’s Ticket Office at 216-231-1111, and tickets for the Gala
benefit evening are available through gala@clevelandorchestra.com or
216-231-7524. The Gala evening includes a special post-concert dinner
in Severance Hall created by Fire Food and Drink and Executive Chef
Douglas Katz.
This year’s event benefits the Orchestra’s ongoing education and
community initiatives for Northeast Ohio. The Cleveland Orchestra
serves more than 65,000 people of all ages each year with a
comprehensive array of education concerts, workshops, and
instructional resources, working in partnership with hundreds of local
schools, colleges and universities, libraries, and other cultural and
community-based organizations. Since 1918, the Orchestra has
introduced more than four million Cleveland-area school children to
symphonic music. The Orchestra’s all-volunteer Cleveland Orchestra
Chorus, the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, Youth Chorus, and
Children’s Chorus, and neighborhood Music Study Groups offer
extraordinary life-long learning opportunities for participants from
across Northeast Ohio.
The Cleveland Orchestra 2014 Gala Concert is conducted by Music
Director Franz Welser-M?st and features pianist Lang Lang performing
Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1. The program also includes
Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, Act II. (Pianist Lang Lang also performs
with The Cleveland Orchestra on October 9, 10, and 12, playing works
by Chopin and Strauss. Only for the Gala is he playing Tchaikovsky’s
immensely popular First Piano Concerto.)
Gala tickets are $1,500, $1,000, and $500, and include valet parking,
cocktails, premium concert tickets, and dinner seating. For
information, please call 216-231-7524 or email gala@clevelandorchestra.com.
Concert-only tickets are available at clevelandorchestra.com or
216-231-1111.
This year, in addition to a formal plated dinner taking place
throughout the hall, The Cleveland Orchestra 2014 Gala includes a
unique mix-and-mingle culinary experience for the Orchestra’s young
professionals group, The Circle.? A Young Professionals ticket
includes valet parking, cocktails, concert seating, and dinner in
Smith Lobby. Ticket prices for Circle members are $125 for a single
ticket and $175 for two tickets; for non-Circle members the prices are
$150 for a single ticket and $250 for two. If you are interested in
attending the Young Professionals event, please call 216-231-7524.
LANG LANG
Lang Lang has inspired millions with open-hearted, emotive playing,
whether it be in intimate recitals or on the grandest of stages –such
as the 2014 World Cup concert in Rio, with Placido Domingo, to
celebrate the final game; the 56th GRAMMY Award, where he played with
Metallica; the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where
more than four billion people around the world viewed his performance,
the Last Night of the Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall, or the
Liszt 200th birthday concert broadcast live to more than 500 cinemas
around the US and Europe.
Time Magazine named Lang Lang in the “Time 100”, citing him as a
symbol of the youth of China, and its future. Lang Lang is cultural
ambassador for Shenzhen and Shenyang. And if the Chinese passion for
piano isn’t solely due to him, he has played no small part as a role
model – a phenomenon coined by The Today Show as "the Lang Lang
effect." Steinway Pianos for the first time named a model after a
single artist when they introduced “The Lang Lang Piano” to China,
specially designed for education.
Lang Lang’s honors include being added as one of the World Economic
Forum’s 250 Young Global Leaders, Honorary Doctorates from the Royal
College of Music and Manhattan School of Music, the highest prize
awarded by China’s Ministry of Culture, Germany’s Order of Merit and
France’s Medal of the Order of Arts and Letters.
CALENDAR LISTING:
Cleveland Orchestra 2014 Gala Concert and dinner
Saturday, October 11, 2014, 7 p.m.
Franz Welser-M?st, conductor
Lang Lang, piano
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Act II
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Gala tickets: $1,500, $1,000, and $500. Please call 216-231-7524.
Concert-only tickets: $75-$140 are on sale at clevelandorchestra.com
or 216-231-1111 |
