Come Blossom With Us!

This summer at Blossom Music Center, experience thrilling movies, classical favorites and more with The Cleveland Orchestra and beloved guest artists.

The 2023 Blossom Music Festival season is dedicated to Milton and Tamar Maltz and The Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation.

Schedule:

July 1, 2023

8:00pm: Beethoven's Ode to Joy

WILLIAM GRANT STILL  Mother and Child
SAMUEL BARBER  Knoxville: Summer of 1915
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN  Symphony No. 9 “Choral”

An Ode to Joy. An anthem for humanity. Experience one of history’s most powerful and inspiring artistic works. A masterpiece whose staggering influence is felt across cultures everywhere, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony culminates with the famous Ode to Joy, a rallying cry for hope, humanity, and universal fellowship.

Special performance-not on subscription series.

Performing Artists
The Cleveland Orchestra
Susanna Mälkki, conductor
Felicia Moore, soprano
Elizabeth DeShong, mezzo-soprano
Issachah Savage, tenor
Soloman Howard, bass
Blossom Festival Chorus

July 2-4, 2023

8:00pm: Salute to America

Great music, fireworks, and fun for the whole family! Blossom’s traditional, star-spangled celebration with the Blossom Festival Band returns with a mix of patriotic marches, Broadway favorites, an Armed Forces Salute, and more — concluding with fireworks!

Performing Artists
Blossom Festival Band
Loras John Schissel, conductor

July 7 - 9, 2023

7:00pm: Jurassic Park

Williams  Jurassic Park (film with live orchestral underscore)

Welcome… to Jurassic Park! Relive the magic of Jurassic Park — which celebrates its 30th anniversary — on the big screen with a thrilling performance of John Williams’s iconic score by The Cleveland Orchestra. The action-packed adventure pits man against prehistoric predators in the ultimate battle for survival. Featuring visually stunning imagery and groundbreaking special effects, this epic film is sheer movie magic 65 million years in the making.

Performing Artists
The Cleveland Orchestra
Sarah Hicks, conductor

July 15, 2023

7:00pm: Romantic Rachmaninoff

RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 1

A true test of will and artistry. Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 — called “Rach 3” by fans — is one of the most demanding and daunting concertos ever written. Nikolai Lugansky, called “a pianist who combines elegance and grace with powerful virtuosity".

Pop culture note: “Rach 3” was central to the plot of the Oscar-winning film Shine

Performing Artists
The Cleveland Orchestra
Stanislav Kochanovsky, conductor
Nikolai Lugansky, piano

July 16, 2023

7:00pm: She's Got Soul

A wide-ranging revue of R&B classics. The sensational Capathia Jenkins brings her powerhouse voice to soulful hits of Adele, Toni Braxton, The Jackson 5, Earth, Wind and Fire, Chaka Khan, Stevie Wonder, and other great soul and R&B artists.

Performing Artists
The Cleveland Orchestra
Lucas Waldin, conductor
Capathia Jenkins, vocals

July 22, 2023

7:00pm: Debussy's La Mer

AKUTAGAWA Music for Symphony Orchestra
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1
Debussy La mer

Take a sonic trip to the ocean. Debussy developed his love of the sea during childhood visits to the Mediterranean, and this imaginative, impressionistic sketch captures all the moods of the sea, from tranquil to ominous and stormy, dazzling and full of elemental force.

Performing Artists
The Cleveland Orchestra
Kahchun Wong, conductor
Zlatomir Fung, cello

July 23, 2023

7:00pm: Two Pianos: Who Could Ask for Anything More

Experience music from Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and more when two of today’s most celebrated artists — Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Michael Feinstein — join forces for the first time. This innovative program for two pianos celebrates the captivating music and world of George Gershwin, including Rhapsody in Blue. Feinstein, a renowned vocalist/pianist/conductor, offers his expertise as the leading authority on the Great American Songbook, while Cleveland favorite Thibaudet brings his sparkling virtuosity as one of today’s finest pianists.

Performing Artists
The Cleveland Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Michael Feinstein, piano and vocals

July 28-30, 2023

7:00pm: The Lord of The Rings: Two Towers

Shore  The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (film with live orchestra, chorus, and soloists)

A new power is rising … the Journey continues. Experience the second installment of the epic trilogy on the big screen — with the original score performed live by The Cleveland Orchestra! Academy Award–winning composer Howard Shore brings J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary imagination to vivid life with his Grammy Award–winning score for Peter Jackson's film. In the saga’s second chapter, The Two Towers, the world has darkened, cloaked beneath the advancing shadow of Mordor and the threat of the evil One Ring.

Performing Artists
The Cleveland Orchestra
Ludwig Wicki, conductor
Blossom Festival Chorus
Cleveland Orchestra Children's Chorus

August 5, 2023

7:00pm: Sibelius’s First Symphony

Snider? Something for the Dark
ADAMS? Century Rolls
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 1

Sibelius’s First Symphony opens with mystery — the breathy sound of a single clarinet gradually joined by the distant rumbling of timpani — giving way to gorgeous, romantic, searching melodies. Century Rolls, commissioned and recorded by The Cleveland Orchestra, was inspired by the old piano roll music of the 1920’s: “The concerto takes a kind of polymorphous-perverse pleasure in the whole past century of piano music, both popular and classical.”

Performing Artists
The Cleveland Orchestra
David Robertson, conductor
Conrad Tao, piano
With the Kent Blossom Chamber Orchestra

August 12, 2023

7:00pm: Mozart in the Meadows

MOZART? Overture to?The Marriage of Figaro
MOZART Clarinet Concerto
LANGER Suite from?Figaro Gets a Divorce
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4, "Italian"

Mozart is at the heart of this program filled with humor and whimsey. Conducted by audience favorite Nicholas McGegan, the program opens with Mozart’s ever-popular Marriage of Figaro, which is paired with Langer’s sardonic response. The concert concludes with a work influenced by Mozart, Mendelssohn’s sprightly “Italian” Symphony.  

Performing Artists
The Cleveland Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Afendi Yusuf, clarinet

August 13, 2023

7:00pm: Evening With Audra McDonald

Named one of? Time?magazine's 100 most influential people of 2015, Emmy, Grammy, and six-time Tony Award–winning Broadway icon Audra McDonald –- star of CBS's The Good Fight and HBO's The Gilded Age –- joins The Cleveland Orchestra for a special evening of?Broadway?favorites by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, George Gershwin, and many others, with songs from her latest?album, Sing Happy.

Performing Artists
The Cleveland Orchestra
Andy Einhorn, conductor
Audra McDonald, vocals

August 19, 2023

7:00pm: Fujita Plays Tchaikovsky

SHAW? Entr’acte
DAWSON Negro Folk Symphony
TCHAIKOVSKY? Piano Concerto No. 1

A rising star performs a beloved concerto. Mao Fujita’s meteoric rise is fascinating and extraordinary — he burst on the international scene when he won the Silver Medal at the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition as an unknown 20-year-old.  He makes his not-to-be-missed Cleveland debut performing Tchaikovsky’s powerful, iconic piano concerto.

Performing Artists
The Cleveland Orchestra
Ryan Bancroft, conductor
Mao Fujita, piano

August 26, 2023

7:00pm: Impressions of France and Spain

RAVEL? Alborada del gracioso
SAINT-SAËNS Violin Concerto No. 3
DE FALLA? Suite No. 2 from?The Three-Cornered Hat
Ravel? Suite No. 2 from?Daphnis and Chloé

Pack a picnic, bring a blanket, and relax under the stars to the sounds of atmospheric music from the French Impressionistic period, with spicy Spanish flare. Vivid, colorful works by Ravel bookend a program filled with dance steps and evocative melodies.

Performing Artists
The Cleveland Orchestra
Fabien Gabel, conductor
Simone Lamsma, violin

September 1 - 3, 2023

7:00pm: Disney in Concert: The Sound of Magic

Join The Cleveland Orchestra for Disney: The Sound of Magic, a symphonic celebration of Disney music, animation, and memories — 100 years in the making!

Your favorite characters and soundtracks from the Walt Disney Animation Studios and Disney Parks come to life on the concert hall stage and big screen in a live-to-film concert like never before. Performed live by a symphony orchestra, this new concert takes you on a magic carpet ride through the most memorable song, score, and movie moments of the first 100 years of The Walt Disney Company, including Peter Pan, Moana, Aladdin, The Jungle Book, Frozen, The Lion King, Fantasia, Encanto, Disney Parks classics, and more.

Performing Artists
The Cleveland Orchestra
Susie Benchasil Seiter, conductor

September 9, 2023

7:00pm: Final Fantasy

Distant Worlds: Music from FINAL FANTASY

With high-definition video presentations from the FINAL FANTASY game developers, Square Enix, projected onto giant screens, Distant Worlds showcases the diverse and constantly expanding repertoire of classic FINAL FANTASY music throughout the history of the game series in an innovative multimedia concert experience that has delighted audiences all over the globe. The series’ iconic soundtrack boasts compositions by many prominent video game composers, including the legendary Nobuo Uematsu, who has specially curated the Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY concert tour.

Performing Artists
Akron Symphony Orchestra
Arnie Roth, conductor
Susan Calloway, FINAL FANTASY XIV original vocalist
Cleveland Orchestra Chamber Chorus

Date: July 1, 2023 - September 9, 2023

Location: Blossom Music Center - 1145 W Steels Corners Rd, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44223

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