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2026 Cain Park Community Concert

Name: 2026 Cain Park Community Concert
Start: 2026-07-02T00:00:00.000Z

Cain Park

Wed 8:00 PM

Jul 1

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Repertoire & Performing Artists

Copland

Fanfare for the Common Man
Gabriela Ortiz

Kauyumari
Gabriela Lena Frank

The Mestizo Waltz from The Three Latin American Dances
Dvořák

Slavonic Dance No. 1 in C major, Op. 46
WALKER

Lyric for Strings
Carlos Simon

Hellfighters’ Blues
DAWSON

O Le’ Me Shine, Shine Like a Morning Star! from Negro Folk Symphony
John Williams

Adventures on Earth from E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

The Cleveland Orchestra

The Cleveland Orchestra, under the leadership of Franz Welser-Möst since 2002, is one of the most sought-after performing ensembles in the world. Year after year, the ensemble exemplifies extraordinary artistic excellence, creative programming, and community engagement. In recent years, The New York Times has called Cleveland “the best in America” for its virtuosity, elegance of sound, variety of color, and chamber-like musical cohesion.

Founded by Adella Prentiss Hughes, the Orchestra performed its inaugural concert in December 1918. By the middle of the century, decades of growth and sustained support had turned the ensemble into one of the most admired around the world.

The past decade has seen an increasing number of young people attending concerts, bringing fresh attention to The Cleveland Orchestra’s legendary sound and committed programming. More recently, the Orchestra launched several bold digital projects, including the streaming platform Adella.live and its own recording label. Together, they have captured the Orchestra’s unique artistry and the musical achievements of the Welser-Möst and Cleveland Orchestra partnership.

The 2025–26 season marks Franz Welser-Möst’s 24th year as Music Director, a period in which The Cleveland Orchestra has earned unprecedented acclaim around the world, including a series of residencies at the Musikverein in Vienna, the first of its kind by an American orchestra, and a number of celebrated opera presentations.

Since 1918, seven music directors — Nikolai Sokoloff, Artur Rodziński, Erich Leinsdorf, George Szell, Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnányi, and Franz Welser-Möst — have guided and shaped the ensemble’s growth and sound. Through concerts at home and on tour, broadcasts, and a catalog of acclaimed recordings, The Cleveland Orchestra is heard today by a growing group of fans around the world.

Franz Welser-Möst conducts The Cleveland Orchestra

Anthony Parnther

“A conductor for the future” with “a flourishing career” (The New York Times), American conductor Anthony Parnther is now in his seventh season as music director of the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra. A master of multiple genres, Parnther has conducted many of the world’s preeminent artists, from Joshua Bell, Lynn Harrell, Jessye Norman, and Frederica von Stade to Imagine Dragons, Wu-Tang Clan, John Legend, Metro Boomin, Avenged Sevenfold, and Rihanna.

Parnther’s recent conducting engagements include dates with The Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Opera, Music Academy of the West, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has also led London’s Chineke! Orchestra, which marked his BBC Proms debut, and the Gateways Festival Orchestra, which he led at its Chicago and sold-out Carnegie Hall debuts.

Dedicated to amplifying traditionally underrepresented voices, Parnther has reconstructed and performed orchestral works by Margaret Bonds, Duke Ellington, Zenobia Powell Perry, Florence Price, William Grant Still, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. As well as leading Los Angeles Opera’s world premiere of Tamar-kali’s oratorio We Hold These Truths and Long Beach Opera’s revival of Anthony Davis’s Pulitzer Prize–winning opera, The Central Park Five, Parnther has premiered and recorded works by Jon Batiste, Kris Bowers, Chanda Dancy, Adolphus Hailstork, Marian Harrison, Philip Herbert, Daniel Kidane, George Lewis, James Newton, George Walker, and Errollyn Wallen. For his extensive championing of works by Black, Latino, and women composers, Parnther was profiled as a “Local Hero” by Los Angeles’s KCET/TV.

As one of today’s foremost film conductors, Parnther helms recording sessions for many of the world’s top international feature films and television series, working in close collaboration with some of the most decorated media composers in the industry. On the scoring stages of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Nashville, Budapest, Glasgow, and London, he has led the sessions for two films with Grammy- and Academy Award–winning scores by Ludwig Göransson — Oppenheimer and Sinners — and projects including the Grammy-winning Encanto, Emmy-winning The Mandalorian, and Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Tenet, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, Creed III, Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie, and League of Legends.

Copland

Gabriela Ortiz

Gabriela Lena Frank

Dvořák

Composer

WALKER

Carlos Simon

DAWSON

John Williams

Composer

The Cleveland Orchestra returns to Cain Park! Join us for a free community concert in the heart of Cleveland Heights, performed under the direction of Black Panther conductor Anthony Parnther. Enjoy classic favorites, from John Williams to Dvořák, as well as new pieces you might not have heard before.

The Cleveland Orchestra recognizes and thanks Jayne M. Zborowsky for her support of this concert.

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