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On a Personal Note

The Cleveland Orchestra

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Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/23d. Total Eps: 23

Every story has a soundtrack. Cleveland Orchestra Musicians and Music Director Franz Welser-Möst share stories about the music that has shaped their lives.

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🇨🇦 Canada - Music Interviews
12/04/2026
#94
🇨🇦 Canada - Music Interviews
02/01/2026
#87
🇨🇦 Canada - Music Interviews
01/01/2026
#59
🇨🇦 Canada - Music Interviews
31/12/2025
#37
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music Interviews
04/09/2025
#89
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music Interviews
03/09/2025
#43
🇺🇸 USA - Music Interviews
20/05/2025
#99
🇨🇦 Canada - Music Interviews
11/04/2025
#40
🇨🇦 Canada - Music Interviews
10/04/2025
#37

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https://www.clevelandorchestra.com/attend/concerts-and-events/2122/blossom/sep-11/
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https://www.clevelandorchestra.com/discover/blossom-music-center/
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https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3QdgemRPwtlqAazSyvQnUb?si=517b699756094cf6
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Classic Stewart Copeland

Season 2

Tuesday, August 24, 2021 • Duration 14:26

Rock and drum icon Stewart Copeland talks early influences and recent compositions — including Police Deranged, an orchestral survey of Copeland’s career and his many years with The Police.

Upcoming Performance (September 11 at Blossom Music Center):

Join Stewart Copeland and The Cleveland Orchestra for the finale to this summer's Blossom Music Festival, Stewart Copeland’s Police Deranged For Orchestra, a high-energy orchestral celebration of The Police’s biggest hits, including ‘Roxanne’, ‘Don’t Stand So Close To Me’ and ‘Message in a Bottle’. With Copeland on drums, three singers, guitarist and the full symphony orchestra, these unique compositions give new life to classic songs and select hits from the career of one of the generation’s greatest and most influential artists.

Tickets available here
Stream Stewart Copeland's new Spotify Playlist, "For Cleveland"

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Family Matters

Season 2

Tuesday, December 15, 2020 • Duration 39:56

Revered pianist Mitsuko Uchida reminisces with fondness on the familial nature of her decades-long relationship with The Cleveland Orchestra.

Featured Music:

MOZART – Piano Concerto No. 24 (K. 491)

The Cleveland Orchestra
Mitsuko Uchida, conductor and piano
Recorded live at Severance Hall in November 2005

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

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Change of Seasons, Part 2: The Golda Touch

Season 2 · Episode 9

Tuesday, November 17, 2020 • Duration 01:19:07

After several artist cancellations irrevocably altered plans to perform Haydn’s The Seasons, soprano Golda Schultz was the last soloist standing. Not only did the show go on, it became a defining moment.

Featured Music:

HAYDN – The Seasons

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Golda Schultz, soprano
Recorded live at Severance Hall on Jan. 18, 2018

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

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Change of Seasons, Part 1: The Scramble

Season 2 · Episode 8

Wednesday, November 11, 2020 • Duration 21:34

In January 2018, The Cleveland Orchestra planned to perform Haydn’s choral masterpiece The Seasons. One soloist fell ill. Then another. What resulted is one of the most unusual and memorable performances in Cleveland Orchestra history.

Featured Music:

HAYDN – The Seasons

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Golda Schultz, soprano
Recorded live at Severance Hall on Jan. 18, 2018

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

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Tour de Franz

Season 2 · Episode 7

Tuesday, October 20, 2020 • Duration 36:18

Cellist Paul Kushious reflects on the works of Richard Strauss as he traces the composer’s path on an unforgettable and perfectly planned trip from Austria to Switzerland.

Featured Music:

STRAUSS – Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Recorded live at Severance Hall in 2016

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

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Color and Character

Season 2 · Episode 6

Tuesday, October 13, 2020 • Duration 34:36

Bassoonist Jonathan Sherwin discusses the existential meaning behind Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony - Resurrection; “Why am I here, what am I doing, and what gives my life meaning…”

Featured Music:

MAHLER – Symphony no. 2 (Resurrection)
5. Im Tempo des Scherzos (In the tempo of the scherzo)

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Joélle Harvey, soprano
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
Recorded live at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts on January 26, 2019

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

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Legendary

Season 2 · Episode 5

Tuesday, October 6, 2020 • Duration 31:18

From music conductors to visiting artists to her own family ties, board member Clara Rankin thinks back on the people and performances that define The Cleveland Orchestra.

Interview conducted by André Gremillet, President & CEO of The Cleveland Orchestra.

Featured Music

MOZART – Symphony no. 41
1. Allegro vivace

The Cleveland Orchestra
Recorded live at Severance Hall in 1966

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

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Love Notes

Season 2 · Episode 4

Tuesday, September 29, 2020 • Duration 39:37

Pianist and Violinist Carolyn Gadiel Warner reflects on falling in love—with her husband of 40 years, Bruckner symphonies and her profession.

Featured Music

BRUCKNER – Symphony No. 8
4. Finale

The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Recorded live at Severance Hall on May 29, 2010

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

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Pulse

Season 2 · Episode 3

Tuesday, September 22, 2020 • Duration 27:46

Principal Percussionist Marc Damoulakis talks about feeling the rhythm from an early age and what it means to keep time for The Cleveland Orchestra.

Featured Music

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV – Scheherazade
4. Festival at Baghdad; the Sea; the Ship Goes to Pieces on a Rock Surmounted by a Bronze Warrior

The Cleveland Orchestra
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor
Recorded live at Severance Hall on October 19, 2018

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

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Where Words Fail, Music Speaks

Season 2 · Episode 2

Tuesday, September 8, 2020 • Duration 42:39

Director of Choruses Lisa Wong reflects on the healing power of John Adams’s On the Transmigration of Souls after 9/11 and the human voice as medicine for the soul.

Featured Music

ADAMS – On the Transmigration of Souls

The Cleveland Orchestra
Jakub Hrůša, conductor
Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
Recorded live at Severance Hall on November 17, 2019

The connection we share through music is more important than ever — and so is your support. To support The Cleveland Orchestra, please visit clevelandorchestra.com/donate.

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