Sun 4/28 @ 3:30PM
It’s hard to believe now, scanning the stage when the Cleveland Orchestra plays, that major orchestras were once male-only preserves. That’s why the Cleveland Women’s Orchestra was founded in 1935.
Back then, it was one of many such groups that offered talented women musicians an outlet. That it’s the oldest in existence is less a tribute to its longevity than to the fact that others have shut down as opportunity has increased.
The Cleveland Women’s Orchestra has a long tradition of performing an annual concert at Severance Hall, even though women now have many chances to be on that hallowed stage. For its 78th annual concert this afternoon, music director Robert Cronquist will conduct the Brahms Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A minor, and Prokofieff’s Symphony No. 7.
The concerto will feature two young women soloists whose futures are much brighter than they would have been had they been born 75 years earlier: award-winning violinist Jinjoo Cho and cellist Cicely Parnas, who’s only 19 and a student at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Tickets are $10-$35.
http://www.clevelandwomensorchestra.org/
Photo: Jinjoo Cho