News Release
Release date: June 14, 2011
Blossom Festival presents programs titled
“From Russia with Love” (July 30) and
“Broadway Classics” (July 31)
David Zinman
Photo by Priska Ketterer
Christian Tetzlaff
Photo by Alexandra Vosding
Robert Porco
Photo by Roger Mastroianni
Saturday, July 30, at 8 p.m
David Zinman (music director and chief conductor of the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra) leads The Cleveland Orchestra in a program featuring Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestrated by Ravel) and the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Christian Tetzlaff as soloist. The program opens with Borodin’s Overture to Prince Igor and also includes Stravinsky’s Scherzo à la russe. For the performance of Pictures at an Exhibition, members of the Kent/Blossom Chamber Orchestra will perform “side by side” with The Cleveland Orchestra.
David Zinman made his debut with The Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Festival in August 1978 and has appeared with the Orchestra in more than 35 concerts, most recently in July 2010. Christian Tetzlaff first appeared as soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra in 1988. Since then, he has performed with the Orchestra on a regular basis, at Severance Hall, Blossom Music Center, and on tour in Asia and Europe. His most recent concerts with the Orchestra were in November 2008.
Beginning at 7 p.m., Sasha Mäkilä (assistant conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra) will lead the Kent/Blossom Chamber Orchestra in performances of Sibelius’s Suite from Kuolema and Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony.
Concert ticket prices range from $19 to $83.
Lisa Vroman
Debbie Gravitte
Doug LaBrecque
Sunday, July 31, at 7 p.m
Robert Porco leads The Cleveland Orchestra in a program titled “Broadway Classics” that features music by Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, and Cole Porter, plus selections by Lerner & Loewe and Rodgers & Hammerstein. Vocal soloists will be Lisa Vroman, Debbie Gravitte, and Doug LaBrecque. Each of these artists has appeared previously with the Orchestra at Blossom in performances of Broadway music. Also performing in this concert will be the Blossom Festival Chorus.
Concert ticket prices range from $21 to $88.
July 31 sponsor: Baker Hostetler, a Cleveland Orchestra Partner in Excellence.
The July 31 concert is supported by the David E. and Jane J. Griffiths Blossom Festival Family Concerts Fund.
Christian Tetzlaff’s appearance with The Cleveland Orchestra is made possible by a gift to the Orchestra’s Guest Artist Fund from The Payne Fund.
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.
Calendar Listing
Saturday, July 30, 2011 at 8:00 p.m.*
The Cleveland Orchestra
David Zinman, conductor
Christian Tetzlaff, violin
with the Kent/Blossom Chamber Orchestra**
Sasha Mäkilä, conductor*
From Russia with Love
Borodin: Overture to Prince Igor
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Stravinsky: Scherzo à la russe
Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition**
*The evening begins with the Kent/Blossom Chamber Orchestra performing works by Sibelius and Prokofiev at 7 p.m. After an intermission, The Cleveland Orchestra concert starts at 8 p.m.
**"Picture at an Exhibition" is performed by the combined ensembles, with the Kent/Blossom Chamber Orchestra performing "side-by-side" with The Cleveland Orchestra.
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 the Severance Hall Ticket Office, or at the Blossom Box Office the day of the concert.
Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Robert Porco, conductor
Lisa Vroman, vocalist
Debbie Gravitte, vocalist
Dough LaBrecque, vocalist
Blossom Festival Chorus
Broadway Classics
Music from Broadway’s Great American Songbook, including Gershwin’s “I Got Rhythm,” Cole Porter’s “Begin the Beguine,” Harold Arlen’s “Over the Rainbow,” and songs by Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, and Jerome Kern, plus selections by Lerner & Loewe and Rodgers & Hammerstein.
Pavilion Tickets: $32, $37, $48; Box Seats: $88.
Lawn Tickets: $21.
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
