Thu 7/16 @ 7PM
For the people who don’t like to drive out to the Cleveland Orchestra’s summer home at Blossom Music Center and fight the traffic (which probably includes Cleveland Orchestra musicians, many of whom live in Cleveland Heights, five minutes from Severance Hall) the orchestra has a series of concerts called Summers at Severance.
There you can hear high-quality classical music without the annoying drive. To kick things off, noted 78-year-old American Garrick Ohlsson will join the orchestra for Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concert No. 1, written in 1891 when the composer was still in his teens. That piece will be bookended with 19th century Czech composer Bedřich Smetana’s tone poem “The Moldau” from Má vlast, and Antonín Leopold Dvořák’s upbeat Symphony No. 8. Russian-American conductor Semyon Bychkov, artistic director/chief conductor of Prague’s Czech Philharmonic, will be leading the orchestra.
Future Summers at Severance concerts happen on July 30, August 13 and August 27. Go here for tickets.