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OrchestraNews 2013 Blossom Music Festival announced Festival season features great orchestral works, a special ballet anniversary, and programs of popular songs and film music
Jack Everly. Cleveland Orchestra chorus director Robert Porco conducts highlights from the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess (July 21), and Bramwell Tovey leads an evening of the music of popular song (August 25), including melodies by Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, and Duke Ellington. In a program sure to delight children of all ages, the 2013 Festival will close with “Pixar in Concert” on Labor Day Weekend, August 31 and September 1. The Cleveland Orchestra performs selections from thirteen Pixar films, accompanying movie clips projected on large screens. The evening is led by Hollywood conductor Richard Kaufman. A program on July 27 features participants from Kent/Blossom Music performing in a sideby-side concert with The Cleveland Orchestra. Twenty Cleveland Orchestra musicians serve on the faculty at Kent/Blossom Music, and twenty alumni of Kent/Blossom Music are now members of The Cleveland Orchestra. The family-friendly “Under 18s Free” ticket program continues at Blossom, where over 26,000 young people have attended Festival concerts during the past two summers. This ground-breaking initiative is made possible through The Cleveland Orchestra’s Center for Future Audiences and additional generous funders. Series subscriptions are now on sale. For complete season details and schedule, visit clevelandorchestra.com.
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The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2013 Blossom Music Festival has been announced, with complete details available on the Orchestra’s website. Season information and series renewals are being mailed to subscribers to last year’s Festival, and new series packages are available for purchase now. Lawn Ticket Books are also for sale now. Individual tickets for the entire season go on sale on Tuesday, May 28. For the 2013 Festival, the Orchestra presents 19 concerts at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Valley National Park from July 3 to September 1. Continuing a 40-year tradition, the Blossom season begins with “Salute to America” concerts performed by the Blossom Festival Band. The band programs on July 3 and 4 are under the direction of Loras John Schissel and feature post-concert fireworks. Music Director Franz Welser-Möst conducts The Cleveland Orchestra for the Festival’s official Opening Night on Friday, July 5, plus two additional evenings. His programs feature Strauss’s Four Last Songs, Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony, and Liszt’s fiery Totentanz, along with excerpts from operas by Richard Wagner during this 200th anniversary of the composer’s birthyear. Highlights of the 2013 Festival season also include The Joffrey Ballet’s return, on August 17 and 18, in a program celebrating the 100th anniversary of the world premiere of The Rite of Spring. Stravinsky’s daring score is matched to a reconstruction of the work’s original choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and facsimiles of the original costumes by Nicholas Roerich. Tito Muñoz leads The Cleveland Orchestra for these ballet performances, which also feature works choreographed by Jerome Robbins and Stanton Welch. In additional to classical symphonic works, a variety of popular music will be also featured at Blossom Festival concerts this summer, ranging from a program of the “Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel” (July 14), under the direction of Michael Krajewski, to an evening of show tunes titled “Broadway’s Leading Men” (July 28), led by