Fri 7/3 @ 8PM
The Cleveland Orchestra makes its first trip out to Blossom Music Center this season to celebrate July 4 and “America at 250.”
The program will include a wide range of American music including such staple composers as Aaron Copeland (his 1942 “Lincoln Portrait,” which features some of President Lincoln’s notable quotes) and George Gershwin (his jazz-infused 1928 symphonic poem An American in Paris, of course). We wouldn’t be surprised to hear other familiar pieces of “Americana,” but maybe a program of “American” music means you won’t hear that July 4 staple The 1812 Overture, written by the very non-American Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Guest conductor Edwin Outwater leads the orchestra; American tenor Russell Thomas will also be joining them. And weather permitting there will be fireworks immediately after the concert.