News Release
Release date: June 21, 2011
The Cleveland Orchestra performs “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
program at the Blossom Festival on August 7
Sunday, August 7, at 7 p.m
Bramwell Tovey
Photo by Tyler Boye
Baiba Skride
English-born conductor Bramwell Tovey (music director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra) makes his debut with The Cleveland Orchestra in a program featuring selections from Felix Mendelssohn’s Incidental Music to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 featuring Latvian violinist Baiba Skride (BYE-bah SCREE-day), in her Cleveland Orchestra debut. Tovey also serves as principal guest conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl and has presided as host and conductor of the New York Philharmonic’s Summertime Classics series at Avery Fisher Hall since the series began in 2004. BBC Music Magazine has commented that “Baiba Skride might be viewed as a throwback to the golden age of Heifetz, Kreisler and Milstein … she has a way of speaking naturally through her violin which instantly engages the listener’s emotions.” The program also includes Richard Strauss’s Don Juan and George Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody No. 1.
To watch Bramwell Tovey interviewed by Eugenia Zukerman, click here.
To watch a 2008 video about Baiba Skride, click here.
Concert ticket prices range from $19 to $83.
August 7 sponsor: The Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation.
The concert is co-sponsored by Olympic Steel, Inc.
Baiba Skride’s appearance with The Cleveland Orchestra is made possible by a gift
to the Orchestra’s Guest Artist Fund from Mr. and Mrs. William C. Zekan.
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
Sunday, August 7, 2011, at 7:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey, conductor
Baiba Skride, violin
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mendelssohn: Scherzo, Nocturne, and Wedding March from
Incidental Music to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
R. Strauss: Don Juan
Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
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.
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
