Cleveland Orchestra, Ivy/chipmunk, drive shaft

Saturday, May 26, 2007at
8:00 PMSeverance Hall

Brahms: Second Symphony & Berg Chamber Concerto
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Mitsuko Uchida, piano

William Preucil, violin
Berg: Chamber ConcertoBrahms: Symphony No. 2

Music Director Franz Welser-Möst conducts Brahms’s Symphony No. 2, a piece brimming with light and warmth, written while the composer was on holiday in the Austrian Alps. The program also includes Alban Berg’s lyrical and expressive Chamber Concerto for Piano, Violin, and Thirteen Wind Instruments with Mitsuko Uchida and Concertmaster William Preucil as soloists.

Tuesday, May 22
Ivy brings a chipmunk into the house.

May 18
Car gets a new drive shaft from Excelleration. Most automobiles today use rigid driveshafts to deliver power from a transmission to the wheels. A pair of short driveshafts is commonly used to send power from a central differential, transmission, or transaxle to the wheels.

More on the Cleveland Orchestra concert -

William Preucil, violinBerg: Chamber ConcertoBrahms: Symphony No. 2

Music Director Franz Welser-Möst conducts Brahms’s Symphony No. 2, a piece brimming with light and warmth, written while the composer was on holiday in the Austrian Alps.

The program also includes Alban Berg’s lyrical and expressive Chamber Concerto for Piano, Violin, and Thirteen Wind Instruments with Mitsuko Uchida and Concertmaster William Preucil as soloists. Sunday, May 27: Free Prelude Concert at 2 p.m.: Enjoy a chamber music performance by members of The Cleveland Orchestra in Reinberger Chamber Hall.

This prelude concert will include the Schubert Piano Trio in B-flat major ("Sonatensatz"), the third and fourth movements from the Brahms String Quartet No. 2, Op. 51, No. 2 and the third and fourth movements from the Brahms Horn Trio in E-flat major, Op. 40. Sunday's concert is part of the 3-concert Musically Speaking series with pre-concert chamber music by Cleveland Orchestra musicians and experts speaking briefly from the stage during the main concert about the featured repertoire or composer. Musically Speaking is supported by a special grant from The Hershey Foundation. Thursday and Saturday evening Concert Previews begin at 7:00 p.m. Topic and speaker will be announced in due course.