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 |  | Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Public Square - Cleveland, OH
Public Square Concert & Festival 2009
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The Cleveland Orchestra presents its 20th annual free downtown concert celebrating Independence Day. Look for details about the concert in May.
Tickets: Free admission, no tickets required.
  
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Friday, July 3, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Blossom Music Center
Salute to the USA
Blossom Festival Band
Loras John Schissel, conductor
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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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July 3 | 
Cleveland Orchestra Partner in Excellence |
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July 4 | 
Cleveland Orchestra Partner in Excellence |
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 | | Sunday, July 5, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Blossom Music Center
Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess
The Cleveland Orchestra
Robert Porco, Tito Muñoz, conductors
Angela Brown, soprano – Blossom Festival debut
Rodrick Dixon, tenor – Cleveland Orchestra debut
Lester Lynch, baritone – Cleveland Orchestra debut
Blossom Festival Chorus
PROGRAM INCLUDES:
Copland: Old American Songs (for Chorus and Orchestra)
Gershwin: Excerpts from Porgy and Bess
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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
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 | | Friday, July 10, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Severance Hall
The Organ Historical Society
Cleveland Convention Grand Finale
Thomas Murray, organ
Bach: Toccata in F major
Hindemith: Sonata I
Weitz: Regina Pacis, from Symphony on Gregorian Themes
Berveiller: Mouvement
Franck: Symphony in D minor (transcr. by Calvin Hampton)
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Concert presented in conjunction with The Organ Historical Society (OHS) 2009 Cleveland Convention and the Cleveland Chapter of the American Guild of Organists (AGO)
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 | | Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Blossom Music Center
Pictures at an Exhibition and Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto
The Cleveland Orchestra
Lionel Bringuier, conductor – Cleveland Orchestra debut
Simon Trpčeski, piano – Cleveland Orchestra debut
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
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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
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 | | Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Blossom Music Center
Bravo Broadway – Rodgers & Hammerstein
The Cleveland Orchestra
Robert Porco, conductor
Christiane Noll, soprano
Aaron Lazar, vocalist – Cleveland Orchestra Debut
William Michals, vocalist – Cleveland Orchestra Debut
Members of the Blossom Festival Chorus
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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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 | | Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Blossom Music Center
Beethoven’s Violin Concerto
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Nikolaj Znaider, violin
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
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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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 | | Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Blossom Music Center
Beethoven’s Fifth
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Franklin Cohen, clarinet
Brahms/Berio: Sonata for Clarinet and Orchestra (Opus 120 No. 1)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
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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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Cleveland Orchestra Partner in Excellence |
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The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation |
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 | | Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Blossom Music Center
Rhapsody in Blue
The Cleveland Orchestra
Loras John Schissel, conductor
Inon Barnatan, piano – Cleveland Orchestra debut
PROGRAM INCLUDES:
Newman: Street Scene
Rodgers: “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” from On Your Toes
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Gershwin: “Ballet for Fred and Ginger” from Shall We Dance?
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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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 | | Sunday, July 26, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Severance Hall
Credo’s 10th Anniversary String Spectacular
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Vivaldi: “Spring” from The Four Seasons
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