After the dark, quiet summer of 2020, the hills and woods around Blossom Music Center will again be alive with the sound of music in the summer of 2021. Although it’s late for an announcement due to pandemic uncertainty — the season is usually set long before this — the Cleveland Orchestra has announced ten weeks of concerts at Blossom this summer with tickets going on sale Monday May 3.
The 2021 Blossom Music Festival opens with the traditional July 4th concert and running through Labor Day weekend, with 11 concerts currently on the schedule, with additional repertoire and musical guests to be announced.
The season opens with An American Celebration on July 3, as conductor Brett Mitchell leads the orchestra in the usual array of patriotic tunes and Americana. Yes, yes, don’t panic: they WILL be playing Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, and there will be fireworks, weather permitting.
Other concerts will feature familiar, crowd-pleasing music: an all-Mozart program, tunes from the Great American Songbook, Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”), Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, an orchestral tribute to the Beatles,
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, Brahms’s Third Symphony, and Elgar’s Enigma Variations. The season closes on Labor Day weekend with two evenings of Hollywood Under the Stars, featuring popular film music.
For more information and programming details go to clevelandorchestra.com.