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Hannigan Conducts Gershwin

Name: Hannigan Conducts Gershwin
Start: 2026-02-14T19:30:00
Location: Severance Music Center

The Cleveland Orchestra

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The ingenious Barbara Hannigan conducts an all-American evening that’s capped by an orchestral suite of timeless tunes from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. Rounding out this cross-country road trip are bold, evocative works by American mavericks Carl Ruggles and George Crumb, and Barber’s nostalgic Knoxville: Summer of 1915, based on a poem by James Agee and featuring award-winning Swedish soprano Johanna Wallroth.

Program

Samuel Barber - Knoxville: Summer of 1915

Composer

George Crumb - A Haunted Landscape

Carl Ruggles - Sun-Treader

George Gershwin - Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture

Composer

Participants

Barbara Hannigan

Conductor

Johanna Wallroth

Singer