What is Cleveland Orchestra?
[[Image:Severance Hall front, Cleveland, Ohio.jpg|thumb|250px|Severance Hall, the home of the Cleveland Orchestra]] '''The Cleveland Orchestra''' is an [[United States|American]] [[orchestra]] based in [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]]. Their [[Conductor (music)|conductor]] is [[Franz Welser-Möst]]. The orchestra was started in 1918 with Nikolai Sokoloff as conductor. In [[1931]] a new [[concert hall]] called the [[Severance Hall]] was opened. It has been the orchestra's [[concert]] hall ever since. The conductor [[George Szell]] made them into one of the world's best orchestras. When he started conducting them after [[World War II]] he told twelve of the players that they had to leave. Another twelve musicians were so angry that they left as well. Szell then improved the orchestra during the 24 years he was with them. Even now the orchestra is so good because of what Szell did for them. Today's conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, continues to conduct the orchestra in Cleveland as well as touring with them all over the world. They perform regularly in the summer at the [[Blossom Festival]] in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and also in [[Miami]], [[Florida]], and in the [[Musikverein]], [[Vienna]]. ==Conductors== *1918-1933 [[Nikolai Sokoloff]] *1933-1943 [[Artur Rodziński]] *1943-1944 [[Erich Leinsdorf]] *1946-1970 [[George Szell]] *1970-1972 [[Pierre Boulez]] *1972-1982 [[Lorin Maazel]] *1984-2002 [[Christoph von Dohnányi]] *2002-present [[Franz Welser-Möst]] ==Other websites== *[http://www.clevelandorch.com/ The Cleveland Orchestra Official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030727061737/http://www.clevelandorch.com/ |date=2003-07-27 }} [[Category:American orchestras]] [[Category:Cleveland]] [[Category:1918 establishments in the United States]] [[Category:1910s establishments in Ohio]]