The Cleveland Orchestra performed<\/a> Lamentation on The Disasters of War<\/a> as part of their 2022\u20132023 season, under conductor Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider<\/a> on October 13-16 in Severance Hall. The program featured Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 Eroica<\/i> and Bloch’s Schelomo: Rhapsodie H\u00e9bra\u00efque for Violoncello and Orchestra<\/i>. The theme of the concert, as expressed by David Patrick Stearns<\/a> in his notes<\/a> for the concert:<\/p>\n “Music created in times of war so often comes down to the question \u201cWhy?\u201d On one level, we question the politics of war, an often confusing and complex web of governmental policies and prejudices. On another is the heartbreaking bloodshed and loss of soldiers and civilians. Why do we so often turn to music and art during these troubled times? Why can a tone poem, symphony, or concerto more clearly express what can be communicated in words, or, more to the point, beyond words.<\/p>\n The three composers on this program each confront\u2009\u2014\u2009and transform\u2009\u2014\u2009the question of \u201cwhy\u201d through pre-established musical forms. Karim Al-Zand\u2019s Lamentation on The Disasters of War (2006) finds renewed resonance in Francisco de Goya\u2019s tortured 19th-century etchings of Napoleon\u2019s invasion of Spain; Ernest Bloch\u2019s World War I\u2013era Schelomo, Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra (1916), invokes the Old Testament wisdom of King Solomon; and Beethoven\u2019s Symphony No. 3 (1803\u201304) finds inspiration\u2009\u2014\u2009and later criticism\u2009\u2014\u2009in the conquests of Napoleon. In contemplating war, they illuminate dual sides of humanity: not only to endure through unimaginable hardship, but to find meaning, purpose, and eventually beauty in it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The program was also featured<\/a> by Szeps-Znaider in his role as director of the Orchestre National de Lyon. [reviews: Cleveland Plain Dealer<\/a>; Seen and Heard International<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Cleveland Orchestra performed Lamentation on The Disasters of War as part of their 2022\u20132023 season, under conductor Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider on October 13-16 in Severance Hall. The program featured Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 Eroica and Bloch’s Schelomo: Rhapsodie H\u00e9bra\u00efque for Violoncello and Orchestra. The theme of the concert, as expressed by David Patrick Stearns in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5673,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions\/5673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}