The Cleveland Orchestra: Brett Mitchell – An American Celebration at Blossom Music Center

The Cleveland Orchestra with Brett Mitchell presents Copland’s iconic Appalachian Spring, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, with real cannons! Michelle Cann will be performing on the piano. A march by Sousa, and more.

The Cleveland Orchestra with Brett Mitchell presents, An American Celebration will feature;
• Bernstein; Overture to Candide
• Watkins; Soul of Remembrance
• Price; Concerto in One Movement
• Hailstork; An American Fanfare
• Copland; Suite from Appalachian Spring
• Tchaikovsky; 1812 Overture, with cannons!
• Sousa; The Stars and Stripes Forever

The Cleveland Orchestra consists of over one hundred member musicians. This July it will be coming home to the Blossom Music Center. Cleveland Orchestra has a global fanbase, and is respected across the world – they regularly tour internationally as well as across the United States of America, and at various residencies in Miami and Vienna.

Brett Mitchell, conductor, composer, educator and pianist, is now the Music Director of the Colorado Symphony. Brett Mitchell is renowned for staging pleasing, detailed explorations of carefully and thoughtfully curated programs. Mitchell’s guest engagements include the Detroit, National, Oregon, Dallas, Indianapolis, Houston, Milwaukee, San Antonio, San Francisco, and Vancouver symphonies; the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl; the Minnesota Orchestra; the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra; the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; the Grant Park Festival Orchestra; and a two-week tour with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

Cleveland Orchestra has been called one of the best orchestras performing today and is widely recognised for its high standards, musical excellence and its stunning performances. Cleveland Orchestra has a longstanding and ongoing collaboration with Welser-Möst – which is commonly agreed to be one of the very best conductor-orchestral pairings. Concerts of their usual repertory and their fresh performances are unequalled.