The Blossom Festival Band celebrates Independence Day! In Northeast Ohio’s favorite summertime tradition, conductor Loras John Schissel and the Band will deliver the crashing cymbals, the trilling piccolos, and the brassy fanfares of patriotic music. We’ll even provide the fireworks.

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Concert Sponsors:	July 3	Cleveland Orchestra Partner in Excellence
	July 4	Cleveland Orchestra Partner in Excellence

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Highlights will include “I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’,” “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” and the legendary “Summertime” from Gershwin’s opera, Porgy and Bess. Plus Copland’s arrangements of “Simple Gifts” and “At the River” from Old American Songs.

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Concert Sponsor: Hudson and Aurora Blossom Women’s Committees

Lionel Bringuier, assistant conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, makes his Blossom debut. London’s The Independent has written of pianist Simon Trpčeski, “This is subtle, clever, imaginative pianism of the very highest quality.”

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Concert Sponsor:  First Merit Bank

Relive the romance of Broadway. Leading Broadway vocalists will captivate the audience with a collection of songs by Rodgers & Hammerstein, one of Broadway’s most endearing and tuneful teams. Favorites from Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music have become a part of our national songbook.

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Concert Sponsors:	Continental Airlines
	David and Inez Myers Foundation

Nikolaj Znaider, called “extraordinarily intelligent, soulful and impassioned” by The Strad magazine, performs Beethoven’s heartfelt Violin Concerto, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst.

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Beethoven’s iconic Symphony No. 5 stands as one of the greatest works in the repertoire. The playing of Franklin Cohen, soloist in the Brahms/Berio Sonata for Clarinet and Orchestra, has been described as “hypnotic, impeccable, and brilliant.”

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Concert Sponsors:	Cleveland Orchestra Partner in Excellence
	The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation

In a jazz-inspired program, George Gershwin’s most popular piece, Rhapsody in Blue, evokes the glamorous New York jazz scene of the 1920s. A jazz ballet from Broadway, a film score, and more Gershwin complete the program..

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Concert Sponsors:	Fifth Third Bank
	The Sisler McFawn Foundation

Renowned conductor David Zinman returns to the Blossom stage joined by Ingrid Fliter, noted for her “exacting technique” and “striking spontaneity” by the New York Times.

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Former Blossom Festival Director Jahja Ling returns to interpret Dvořák’s exhilarating Eighth Symphony. Cellist Johannes Moser, called “a major talent” by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, performs Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1.

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Concert Sponsor: Mary and Dr. George L. Demetros Charitable Trust

In his 25th season with The Cleveland Orchestra, Jahja Ling welcomes ovation-inspiring pianist Garrick Ohlsson to perform Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.2, a monumental work that features magnificent orchestral solos and encompasses both storm and sunshine.

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Concert Sponsor:	The Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation
Concert Co-Sponsors:	The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
	Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

Cleveland Orchestra Assistant Conductor Jayce Ogren conducts Mozart’s Symphonies Nos. 40 and 41 (“Jupiter”) that bookend pianist David Fray’s Cleveland Orchestra debut performance of the Concerto No. 25.

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Concert Sponsor: The Sherwin-Williams Company

Join Star Trek’s Mr. Sulu for a Sci-Fi adventure of television and film music from your favorites including Star Trek, Star Wars, E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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Concert Sponsors:	Akron Community Foundation
	Ernst & Young

Featuring speakers from Sesame Workshop and the National Center for Family Literacy

Free and open to the public.

8:30 a.m. – Registration
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. – Event

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Cleveland Orchestra Partner in Excellence

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Kettentanz Arpino/J. Strauss Sr., J. Mayer
Mobile Ruud/Khachaturian
Cloven Kingdom Taylor/Corelli, Cowell, M. Miller; combined by J. H. McDowell
Round of Angels Arpino/Mahler
Carousel (A Dance) Wheeldon/Rodgers

“An eclectic mix of past, present, classical and/or avant-garde is a longstanding Joffrey trademark,” says the Chicago Tribune. The Joffrey Ballet makes a spectacular return to Blossom with an irresistible variety of dances by Gerald Arpino, Tomm Ruud, Paul Taylor and Christopher Wheeldon.

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Concert Sponsors:	August 22:	Cleveland Orchestra Partner in Excellence The Gar Foundation
	August 23:	The Gar Foundation

Debussy’s evocation of waves and wind in La Mer (The Sea) highlights an all-French program led by guest conductor James Gaffigan. Ravel is a specialty of popular returning pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

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Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero brings his passion to a Spanish-influenced program culminating in Ravel’s snare drum-driven Boléro. Blossom audiences will be riveted when The Cleveland Orchestra takes on this rhythmic showpiece.

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Emmy Award-winning creator and conductor George Daugherty is back with a new edition of this legendary concert of classic Warner Bros. Looney Tunes on the big screens, including beloved favorites “What’s Opera, Doc?” and “The Rabbit of Seville,” plus exciting new additions.

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