Sat 7/2 @ 8PM
The Cleveland Orchestra kicks off its summer season at Blossom Music Center this weekend with an evening of upbeat music to lead into the festival band patriotic concerts the following two nights.
Headlining the program is American composer Aaron Copland’s Symphony No. 3. The composer wrote it between 1944 and 1946 to celebrate the end of World War II and features the Americana musical motifs he was drawn to, including his powerful, upbeat Fanfare for the Common Man, which concludes the work. And there’ll be celebratory fireworks, weather permitting, although celebrating “freedom” seems pretty bitter this year.
The program kicks off with 20th-century Austrian composer Friedrick Gulda’s Concerto for Cello, which premiered in 1980. The soloist is the orchestra’s own principal cellist Mark Kosower. Conducting the evening is the orchestra’s associate conductor Vinay Parameswaran. Go here for tickets.
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