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Saturday, July 5 welcomes The Cleveland Orchestra home to a newly renovated Blossom Music Center with a gala concert featuring the Blossom debut of Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. The concert, featuring Orff’s beloved Carmina Burana, launches one of Northeast Ohio’s most revered summer traditions. |
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On Sunday, June 29 at 4 pm, WKSU presents Carl Orff’s masterpiece Carmina Burana in its entirety.
 Carl Orff (1895-1982) spent his full life in Munich, Germany, pursuing careers as a musician, composer and educator. Considered by many at the time to be the world’s top expert in music education for children, Orff was fascinated by utilizing movement to make music more accessible.
To this end, Carmina Burana (Orff’s most successful work) is described as a scenic cantata for soloists, choruses and orchestra that can be staged as a fully realized piece of music-theatre. The work was based on a collection of Latin/German Goliard poems and partly inspired by church music.
The 1974 Columbia recording of Carmina Burana by The Cleveland Orchestra was conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas and was honored with the 1975 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance, Classical. |
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 Nestled in rolling hills near the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Blossom opened in 1968 as the summer home of one of the world’s premiere orchestras. Pavilion designer Peter van Dijk returned to the project at the conclusion of last season to lead the $17 million rejuvenation project. Blossom, which has grown to see more than 400,000 visitors each year for concerts by everyone from the Orchestra to Ozzie Osbourne, received a major overhaul that included new seating in the Pavilion, new picnic and concessions areas, complete ADA accessibility, new landscaping and new sound system—delivering quality audio to lawn patrons.
 Featured in WKSU’s Blossom Festival Day are performances by The Cleveland Orchestra under the baton of Christoph von Dohnányi, Lorin Maazel, George Szell and guest conductors from the Orchestra’s historic archives. Stand out soloists include Jean-Yves Thibaudet performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in c minor, Opus 18; Isaac Stern with Mozart’s “Turkish” Concerto, and the Labeque sisters commanding Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Dates for each work’s appearance in the 2003 Blossom scheduled are also provided in the section below. |
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In celebration of The Cleveland Orchestra’s return to Blossom and Franz Welser-Möst’s Blossom debut, WKSU presents a day of classic performances of works featured as part of the 2003 Blossom Festival season.
 Wednesday, July 2 during WKSU Classical Music |
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9am
Gershwin: Cuban Overture
August 2 at Blossom
Recording featuring Riccardo Chailly with The Cleveland Orchestra
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Opus 68 “Pastoral”—last 3 movements
July 6 at Blossom
Recording featuring Christoph von Dohnányi with The Cleveland Orchestra
10am
Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (movements 1, 2)
July 6 at Blossom
Recording featuring Pierre Boulez with The Cleveland Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite
August 16 at Blossom
Recording featuring Lorin Maazel with The Cleveland Orchestra
11am
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in c minor, Opus 18
August 16 at Blossom
Recording featuring Vladimir Ashkenazy and Jean-Yves Thibaudet (soloist) with The Cleveland Orchestra
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Opus 68 “Pastoral”—last 3 movements
July 6 at Blossom
Recording featuring Christoph von Dohnányi with The Cleveland Orchestra |
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12pm
Mozart: Violin Concerto #5 in A K219 “Turkish”—1st movement
July 19 at Blossom (“Mozart Marathon”)
Recording featuring George Szell and Isaac Stern (soloist) with The Cleveland Orchestra
Mozart Marathon: Symphony No. 38 in D K504 “Prague”
July 19 at Blossom (“Mozart Marathon”)
Recording featuring Christoph von Dohnányi with The Cleveland Orchestra
1pm
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
August 2 at Blossom (“All-Gershwin”)
Recording featuring Riccardo Chailly and Katia & Marielle Labeque (soloists) with The Cleveland Orchestra
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat Op73 “Emperor”
July 25 at Blossom
Recording featuring George Szell and Leon Fleisher (soloist) with The Cleveland Orchestra
2pm
Moussorgsky: Pictures in Exhibition
July 26 at Blossom
Recording featuring Lorin Maazel with The Cleveland Orchestra
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
July 18 at Blossom
Recording featuring Christoph von Dohnányi with The Cleveland Orchestra |
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Blossom Music Center Renovation
A WKSU Feature
The summer home of the Cleveland Orchestra has undergone a seventeen million dollar renovation! WKSU’s Mark Urycki interviewed Peter Van Dijk, the same architect who designed the facility 35 years ago.
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Interview with Jahja Ling
A WKSU Feature
WKSU’s Mark Urycki visited with Maestro Ling and offers this discussion of the 51 year-old conductor’s history in Cleveland.
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Franz Welser Möst
A WKSU Feature
This weekend, Franz Welser Möst, will conduct the Cleveland Orchestra in his debut concerts at the newly renovated Blossom Music Center. In his first season as Music Director, the Austrian conductor is getting ovations not only for performances at Severance Hall, but also for his community outreach, like last night's (7/1/03) Star Spangled Spectacular on Public Square.
Listen to Part 1:
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Listen to Part 2:
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Listen to Part 3:
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