News Release
Release date: July 20, 2011
The Cleveland Orchestra performs “Mozart, Mendelssohn,
and More” (August 27) and “On the Town” (August 28)
at the Blossom Festival
Saturday, August 27, at 8 p.m
Nicholas McGegan
Photo by Randi Beach
Nicholas McGegan (music director of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco) leads The Cleveland Orchestra in a program of works by Bach, Handel, Mozart, and Mendelssohn. In addition to Mozart’s Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183, the program includes Bach’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041, with Cleveland Orchestra Principal Second Violin Stephen Rose in his solo concerto debut with the Orchestra; Mendelssohn’s Hear My Prayer, with soprano soloist Teresa Wakim in her Cleveland Orchestra debut; and other choral-orchestral works by Handel and Mendelssohn. The Blossom Festival Chorus, prepared by Cleveland Orchestra Director of Choruses Robert Porco and Assistant Director of Choruses Lisa Yozviak, joins the Orchestra for this concert. For a complete listing of the program, see the calendar that follows this release.
Nicholas McGegan made his Cleveland Orchestra debut with Severance Hall concerts
in February 2007 and first appeared with the Orchestra at the Blossom Festival in July 2008.
He has conducted the Orchestra regularly since then, most recently in July 2010.
To watch a video of Nicholas McGegan talking about Handel, click here.
To listen to Teresa Wakim performing as a soloist in Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music
with the Harvard Summer Chorus or to watch a video of her singing an aria from
Handel’s Alcina with Bourbon Baroque, click here.
Concert ticket prices range from $19 to $83.
Sunday, August 28, at 7 p.m.
Cleveland Orchestra Assistant Conductor James Feddeck leads the Orchestra in a program that features Benjamin Britten’s Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell and Carl Maria von Weber’s Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-flat major, Opus 74, with Cleveland Orchestra Principal Clarinet Franklin Cohen as soloist. The program also includes Leonard Bernstein’s Three Dance Episodes from On the Town and Edward Elgar’s In the South.
Concert ticket prices range from $19 to $83.
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.
August 27 co-sponsors: Park-Ohio Holdings Corp.and Squire, Sanders & Dempsey (US) LLP
August 28 sponsor: Ernst & Young LLP
Calendar Listing
Saturday, August 27, 2011, at 8:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Stephen Rose, violin
Teresa Wakim, soprano
Blossom Festival Chorus
Mozart, Mendelssohn, and More
Mozart: Symphony No. 25
Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1
Handel: The King Shall Rejoice
Handel: Concerto Grosso, Opus 3, No. 2
Mendelssohn: Dona Nobis Pacem
Mendelssohn: Hear My Prayer
Handel: Zadok the Priest
Pavilion Tickets: $27, $32, $43; Box Seats: $83.
Lawn Tickets: $19
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 clevelandorchestra.com, at the Severance Hall Ticket Office, or at the Blossom Box Office the day of the concert.
Sunday, August 28, 2011, at 7:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
James Feddeck, conductor
Franklin Cohen, clarinet
On the Town
Britten: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell
Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 2
Bernstein: Three Dance Episodes from On the Town
Elgar: In the South
Pavilion Tickets: $27, $32, $43; Box Seats: $83.
Lawn Tickets: $19
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 clevelandorchestra.com, 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
