WKSU members may purchase half-price tickets to 5 concerts
The Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Center
WKSU members may purchase half-price tickets to 5 concerts
For the Northeast Ohio community, trips to Blossom Music Center are informal opportunities to enjoy one of the best classical music groups in the world and their special guests. This summer's
Blossom Festival will be no exception as
The Cleveland Orchestra is joined by the Blossom Festival Band, Blossom Orchestra and guests Canadian Brass and Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra in presenting 22 concerts in a ten-week period beginning with the traditional Band concerts with fireworks over the 4th of July holiday weekend.
Season highlights include former festival director Jahja Ling leading an all-Tchaikovsky concert on July 15 and Mozart's Requiem with the Orchestra and Blossom Festival Chorus on July 16, guest conductor Pinchas Steinberg with an evening of opera favorites on Aug. 5 and leading the Orchestra and soloist Jean-Yves Thibaudet in Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, and Bugs Bunny on Broadway on Aug. 12. Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Franz Welser-Most takes the podium on Aug. 25 and 26 with concerts featuring the Bruckner 5 and Debussy's Le Mer respectively. The summer concludes with the Blossom Festival Orchestra presenting a symphonic score to screenings of the 1939 film classic, The Wizard of Oz, on Sept. 2 and 3.
WKSU members may purchase up to six half-price tickets to five specially chosen Blossom Festival concerts by displaying their WKSU member card at time of purchase at the Severance Hall or Blossom box offices.
The select concerts include:
July 8 - Rachmaninoff Second Piano Concerto
The Cleveland Orchestra, James Gaffigan, conductor
Cristina Ortiz, piano
Mozart - Don Giovanni Overture
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2
R. Strauss - Don Juan
Respighi - Pines of Rome
July 15 - All-Tchaikovsky
The Cleveland Orchestra, Jahja Ling, conductor
James Ehnes, violin
Tchaikovsky - Coronation March
Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 ("Pathétique")
July 16 - Mozart Requiem
The Cleveland Orchestra, Jahja Ling, conductor
Twyla Robinson, soprano
Charles Robert Austin, bass-baritone
Franklin Cohen, clarinet
John Clouser, bassoon
Blossom Festival Chorus
R. Strauss - Four Last Songs
R. Strauss - Duet-Concertino
Mozart - Requiem
July 22 - Gershwin and Bernstein
The Cleveland Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
Arnaldo Cohen, piano
Bernstein - On the Waterfront Suite
Gershwin - Piano Concerto in F
Bernstein - Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Gershwin - An American in Paris
August 26 - La Mer
The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Andrew Grams, conductor
Debussy - Printemps
Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet Suite
Mozart - Symphony No. 38 ("Prague")
Debussy - La Mer
