Michael Cirigliano II
Things I've written about music.
Feature articles
"Susanna Mälkki on Sound and Silence"
LA Phil, January 2025
"The Art of Latin Dance with Conductor Alexandra Arrieche"
Britt Festival Orchestra, June 2024
"Wolfie Goes to Hollywood: Finding the Magic in Mozart with Nicholas McGegan and Martin Chalifour"
Classical Post, September 2022
"Behind the Score: Shostakovich, Oistrakh and the Ukraine Connection"
Minnesota Orchestra, April 2022
"When Poetry Sings, and Composer Becomes Poet"
Cleveland Orchestra, March 2022
"John Adams through the Looking Glass"
Cleveland Orchestra, February 2022
"Returning a Museum Treasure to the Limelight for Bach's Goldberg Variations"
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2014
"Hokusai and Debussy's Evocations of the Sea"
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2014
Program notes
Arnold Schoenberg, Gurrelieder
LA Phil, December 2024
William Walton, Cello Concerto
Cleveland Orchestra, July 2024
William Walton, Belshazzar's Feast
Cleveland Orchestra, April 2024
Clara Schumann, Piano Concerto
Cleveland Orchestra, February 2024
Gustav Mahler, Adagio from Symphony No. 10
Cleveland Orchestra, January 2024
Ernst Krenek, Kleine Symphonie (Little Symphony)
Cleveland Orchestra, January 2024
Cleveland Orchestra, November 2023
Storms of Musical Invention: Sibelius and Àdes Take on Shakespeare's Tempest
Cleveland Orchestra, April 2023
Louise Farrenc, Symphony No. 3
Cleveland Orchestra, March 2023
Cleveland Orchestra, November 2022
Cleveland Orchestra, October 2022
Friedrich Gulda, Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra
Cleveland Orchestra, July 2022
Benjamin Britten, Suite from The Prince of the Pagodas
Cleveland Orchestra, April 2022
Benjamin Britten, Suite on English Folk Tunes, "A time there was ..."
Cleveland Orchestra, March 2022
Molière / Jean-Baptiste Lully, Le Bouregois Gentilhomme
Lincoln Center Festival, July 2016
Season brochures
The Oregon Symphony's 2024/25 Season: The Nature of Music
Wrote intro spreads and program copy for 18 classical subscription concerts.
The Oregon Symphony's 2023/24 Season: Uniting Through Music
Wrote all front matter and program copy for 18 classical subscription concerts.
Odds & ends
"5 WorksThat Continue to Fuel My Love for the Clarinet"
Medium, October 2021 (inspired by the New York Times' "5 Minutes" series)
"RIP, Claudio Abbado (1933–2014)"
Feast of Music, January 2014