News Release
Release date: May 31, 2011
Franz Welser-Möst leads The Cleveland Orchestra
in music of Bruckner and Adams, July 9 and 10
Saturday, July 9, at 8 p.m
Music Director Franz Welser-Möst leads The Cleveland Orchestra in Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8, which the Orchestra recently released as a DVD recording to be featured in a Cleveland telecast in June.
The Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst will perform Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony in July at the Lincoln Center Festival in New York, along with Bruckner’s Symphonies Nos. 5, 7, and 9. The summer performances complete a year-long series of concerts, during which the Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst will have performed Bruckner symphonies 17 times, in Japan, South Korea, Ohio, Scotland, Switzerland, and New York.
On the Orchestra’s European tour last season, the Kleine Zeitung wrote that “Franz Welser-Möst performed Anton Bruckner’s music the way the composer wanted it performed.” Together, they have released DVDs and recordings of Bruckner’s Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Symphonies made in historic venues such as Vienna’s Musikverein and the Abbey of St. Florian near Linz, Austria, adding to the Orchestra’s legacy of Bruckner recordings.
Tickets $19 to $83.
Sunday, July 10, at 7 p.m.
Violinist Leila Josefowicz, whom the Los Angeles Times has called “an impassioned advocate for contemporary music, particularly Adams’ works,” returns to perform the Violin Concerto of American composer John Adams. Music Director Franz Welser-Möst leads The Cleveland Orchestra in the Adams Concerto and in Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9. Both works are part of the repertoire of music by Bruckner and Adams for a four-program series of concerts that the Orchestra will perform at the Lincoln Center Festival in the week following this Blossom Festival concert. Click here for videos of Franz Welser-Möst and John Adams speaking about Bruckner and Adams.
Tickets $19 to $83.
Calendar Listing
Saturday, July 9, 2011, at 8:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Franz conducts Bruckner’s Eighth
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8
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 10, 2011, at 7:00 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Leila Josefowicz, violin
Franz conducts Bruckner and Adams
Adams: Violin Concerto
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9
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 clevelandorchestra.com
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
