News Release
Release date: May 24, 2011
Celebrate July 4 All Weekend at the 2011 Blossom Festival
Saturday, July 2, at 8 p.m
Loras John Schissel
Photo by Roger Mastroianni
Idina Menzel
Steven Reineke
Idina Menzel (Wicked, Rent, Glee) joins The Cleveland Orchestra led by guest conductor Steven Reineke in a program featuring classic pop, musical theater favorites, and songs from Menzel’s album I Stand, along with patriotic music to celebrate the Fourth. Fireworks follow the concert. All-American Cookout concessions will be available for purchase prior to the concert. Concert ticket prices range from $23 to $75.
The July 2 concert is a benefit for The Cleveland Orchestra’s Center for Future Audiences, endowed by the Maltz Family Foundation. The Orchestra’s Center for Future Audiences was created in 2010, with a mission of transforming the way audiences will access performances by The Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Center, Severance Hall, and throughout Northeast Ohio. The Center represents an unprecedented and innovative audience development initiative that seeks to remove all cultural, economic, and geographic barriers to attending live concerts of the Orchestra. By its centennial in 2018, the Orchestra is committed to engaging one of the youngest orchestra audiences in the country. As part of this effort, the Orchestra will be providing free Blossom Festival tickets, beginning this summer, to young people under age 18.
Created with a generous lead gift of $20 million from the Maltz Family Foundation, providing one-third of the $60 million endowment funding needed, the Center for Future Audiences is a major step toward ensuring the vision that The Cleveland Orchestra will inspire audiences throughout the region and the world for the next century and beyond.
Proceeds from this evening’s concert and benefit events will further the Center for Future Audience’s mission. Individual tickets from $100-$1,000 are sold separately for the benefit events, which include a pre-concert dinner, box seats, and post-concert party. Call 216-231-7524 or email eszy@clevelandorchestra.com for more information and to purchase benefit tickets.
Sunday, July 3, at 8 p.m
The Cleveland Orchestra salutes the U.S.A. with a patriotic concert guest-conducted by John Morris Russell, in his Cleveland Orchestra debut. A Cleveland native, Russell becomes music director of the Cincinnati Pops in fall 2011, succeeding the late Erich Kunzel. The traditional Independence Day program includes Tchaikovsky’s “1812” Overture, with fireworks following the program. All-American Cookout concessions will be available for purchase prior to the concert. Concert ticket prices range from $19 to $83.
Monday, July 4, at 8 p.m.
The Blossom Festival Band performs a patriotic program of Sousa marches and more, conducted by Loras John Schissel. Fireworks follow the program. All-American Cookout concessions will be available for purchase prior to the concert. Concert ticket prices range from $19 to $43.
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.
July 2 sponsors: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, with additional support from Medical Mutual of Ohio, Richard L. Bowen & Associates Inc., and the Blossom Women’s Committee
Calendar Listing
Saturday, July 2, 2011, at 8:00 p.m.*
The Cleveland Orchestra
Steven Reineke, conductor
Idina Menzel, vocalist
Idina Menzel with The Cleveland Orchestra
This concert features Broadway powerhouse Idina Menzel – the Tony Award-winning Elphaba from international blockbuster Wicked, who also received a Tony nomination for her Broadway debut performance as Maureen in the original production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rent. Menzel will perform a diverse repertoire of classic pop and musical theater favorites (including hits from Wicked and Rent), as well as songs from her album I Stand. The program will also include patriotic orchestral music to celebrate Independence Day.
* Pre-concert All-American Cookout available at 5:30 p.m.
Fireworks follow the concert, weather permitting.
Pavilion Tickets: $50, $60, $75; Box Seats: call 216-231-7524.
Lawn Tickets: $23
Sunday, July 3, 2011, at 8:00 p.m.*
The Cleveland Orchestra
John Morris Russell, conductor
Salute to the U.S.A. with The Cleveland Orchestra
Sousa: March, Washington Post
Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag
Ives: Variations on “America “
Phillips: “Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” from McGuffey’s Reader
Copland: Lincoln Portrait
Ward/Dragon: America, the Beautiful
Bernstein: Overture to West Side Story
Ellington: Selections from The River
Ellington: Sophisticated Lady
Gershwin/Bennett: Gershwin in Hollywood
Goldman: On the Mall
Tchaikovsky: “1812” Overture
* Pre-concert All-American Cookout available at 5:30 p.m.
Fireworks follow the concert, weather permitting.
Pavilion Tickets: $27, $32, $43; Box Seats: $83.
Lawn Tickets: $19; Young people under age 18 are admitted free to the Lawn. 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, with the purchase of an Adult Ticket (two “under 18s” admitted with each adult ticket purchase, must be accompanied by an adult).
Monday, July 4, 2011, at 8:00 p.m.*
Blossom Festival Band
Loras John Schissel, conductor
Stars and Stripes and SOUSA Forever!
A Family Fourth of July in the Sousa Style
The Blossom Festival Band performs Tchaikovsky’s “1812” Overture along with Sousa marches and his own favorite works by classical composers, plus rare, unpublished works from the Sousa Band Library, conducted by the world’s foremost authority on John Philip Sousa, Loras John Schissel.
* Pre-concert All-American Cookout available at 5:30 p.m.
Fireworks follow the concert, weather permitting.
Pavilion Tickets: $19, $27, $32; Box Seats: $43.
Lawn Tickets: $19; Young people under age 18 are admitted free to the Lawn. 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, with the purchase of an Adult Ticket (two “under 18s” admitted with each adult ticket purchase, must be accompanied by an adult).
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
