Sun 8/4 @ 7PM
This weekend, the Cleveland Orchestra trots out another of those familiar audience favorites that sound so good on a summer night: Gustav Holst’s seven-part suite The Planets.
It features a section on every planet but Earth. Pluto was discovered in 1930, slightly more than a decade after he wrote the suite, and he never wrote an additional section for it — a prescient choice considering Pluto’s downgrade in 2006 to a dwarf planet.
The program will also include the Prelude and Fugue from William Walton’s The Spitfire, and Samuel Barber’s Cello Concerto.
The latter will feature Mark Kosower, an internationally noted cellist educated at Indiana University and Juilliard, and winner of several major competitions. According to his bio, he began playing cello at 1 ½. That had to have been his most astonishing feat, considering the size of a cello.
But he’s a local boy now. Since 2009, he has been principal cellist with the Cleveland Orchestra and a teacher at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Bramwell Tovey conducts the Orchestra; the women of the Blossom Festival Chorus join the Orchestra on The Planets.
Pavilion tickets are $25-$85. Lawn tickets are $20; under 18 free on the lawn.
http://www.clevelandorchestra.com/event-detail/2013-Aug-04-Blossom.aspx?pid=10891
Photo: Mark Kosower