News Release
Release date: July 19, 2011
The Joffrey Ballet joins The Cleveland Orchestra
for performances at the Blossom Festival on August 20 and 21
Saturday, August 20, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, August 21, at 8 p.m
Night
Photo by Herbert Migdoll
Following acclaimed appearances with The Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Festival in 2009 and 2010, the world-renowned Joffrey Ballet returns to Blossom for two evenings of performances. The company joins The Cleveland Orchestra to perform a program of five diverse works from the Chicago company’s repertory. The Orchestra will play from Blossom’s orchestra pit under the direction of Tito Muñoz, who served as assistant conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra from 2007 to 2010. Mr. Muñoz conducted each of the Joffrey’s performances at Blossom during the past two summers, and toured with The Joffrey Ballet during the 2010-11 season.
Concert ticket prices range from $23 to $93.
Program
same for both evenings)
Night
- Choreography: Julia Adam
- Music: Commissioned score by Matthew Pierce
- Click here for information about Julia Adam’s Night.
Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux
- Choreography: George Balanchine
- Music: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Excerpt from Swan Lake, Opus 20, Act III
- Click here for information about George Balanchine’s Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux.
After the Rain
- Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon
- Music: Arvo Pärt’s Tabula Rasa and Spiegel im Spiegel
- Chicago Stage Review called After the Rain “a spellbinding example of … a ballet that can quite literally bring you to tears.”
- Click here for information about Christopher Wheeldon’s After the Rain.
Othello-duet
- Choreography: Lar Lubovitch
- Music: Commissioned score by Elliot Goldenthal
- Click here for information about Lar Lubovitch’s ballet Othello – A Dance in Three Acts, from which the pas de deux Othello-duet is excerpted.
Stravinsky Violin Concerto
- Choreography: George Balanchine
- Music: Igor Stravinsky’s Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra, featuring Jung-Min Amy Lee, Associate Concertmaster of The Cleveland Orchestra
- Click here for information about George Balanchine’s Stravinsky Violin Concerto.
- To view a three-part video of former New York City Ballet dancers Bart Cook and Maria Calegari discussing Balanchine’s Stravinsky Violin Concerto, click here and here and here.
August 20 and 21 sponsor: The GAR Foundation
Ballet performances with The Cleveland Orchestra are made possible in part through the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The Cleveland Orchestra thanks DANCECleveland and the Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival for their collaboration
in the promotion of the Joffrey Ballet performances as part of the 2011 Blossom Festival.
All concerts at Blossom Music Center, 1145 Steels Corners Road, Cuyahoga Falls. Free parking for all performances; upgrades available for purchase.
For more information or to order tickets, call 216-231-1111 or 800-686-1141, or visit online.
Blossom Music Center opened in 1968 as the summer home of The Cleveland Orchestra. It is located 25 miles south of Cleveland in Summit County, just north of Akron, Ohio.
Calendar Listing
Saturday, August 20, 2011, at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, August 21, 2011, at 8:00 p.m.
The Joffrey Ballet
Ashley C. Wheater, artistic director
The Cleveland Orchestra
Tito Muñoz, conductor
Jung-Min Amy Lee, violin
The Joffrey Ballet
Night (Adam/Pierce)
Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux (Balanchine/Tchaikovsky)
After the Rain (Wheeldon/Pärt)
Othello-duet (Lubovitch/Goldenthal)
Stravinsky Violin Concerto (Balanchine/Stravinsky)
Pavilion Tickets: $37, $42, $53; Box Seats: $93
Lawn Tickets: $23
Two young people under 18 will be admitted free to the Lawn with each adult ticket purchased; they must be accompanied by an adult. Lawn Passes for “Under 18s” are available online, at the Severance Hall Ticket Office, or at the Blossom Box Office the day of the concert.
All concerts at Blossom Music Center, 1145 Steels Corners Road, Cuyahoga Falls.
Free parking for all performances; upgrades available for purchase.
For more information or to order tickets, call 216-231-1111 or 800-686-1141, or visit online.
Blossom Music Center opened in 1968 as the summer home of The Cleveland Orchestra. It is located 25 miles south of Cleveland in Summit County, just north of Akron, Ohio.
All artists and programs are subject to change.
Press Contact
Jennifer Schlosser, Media Relations Manager, 216-231-7518, Email
