2026
SUMMER IN VIENNA August 29, 2026
SUMMER IN VIENNA Saturday, August 29, 2026, at 7 PM The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, conductor 2026
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949)
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791)
PRESENTED BY
Introduction and Finale to Daphne
25 minutes
Symphony No. 34 in C major, K. 338 I. Allegro vivace II. Andante di molto III. Allegro vivace
20 minutes
I N T E R M I S S I O N | 20 minutes JOHANN STRAUSS, JR. Overture to The Carnival in Rome
5 minutes
JOHANN STRAUSS, JR. Ballet Music from The Carnival in Rome I. Entr’acte — March II. Intermezzo III. Ballet
10 minutes
JOHANN STRAUSS, JR. Entr’acte from A Night in Venice
5 minutes
JOHANN STRAUSS, JR. Bauern-Polka, Op. 276
5 minutes
JOSEF STRAUSS
10 minutes
(1825–1899) SEASON PARTNER
MOVIE NIGHT PRESENTER
FAMILY ENGAGEMENT PARTNER
(1827–1870)
Friedenspalmen Walzer, Op. 207
JOHANN STRAUSS, JR. Quadrille from The Gypsy Baron, Op. 422
5 minutes
Total approximate running time: 1 hour 45 minutes Tonight’s concert is sponsored by
COVER PHOTO BY ROGER MASTROIANNI
Tonight’s concert is dedicated to Dr. Robert Brown & Mrs. Janet Gans Brown and Jennifer & Alexander Ogan in recognition of their generous support of music.
clevelandorchestra.com
3
Thank you, Franz As Franz Welser-Möst begins his 25th and final season, he does so as the longest-serving Music Director in the Orchestra’s history. We invite you to celebrate this extraordinary milestone by making a donation in his honor. Your gift will support the opera & vocal programs he dearly loves and champions.
Show your appreciation today: CLEVELANDORCHESTRA .COM/GRATITUDE
V
FLIGHTS OF FANCY ienna in summer is oppressively hot, but it smells like linden blossoms. The Viennese people typically retreat from the city center, congregating instead at the cooler Heurigen (wine taverns) on its verdant outskirts. In centuries past,
the Habsburg monarchs spent the season in their summer palace at Schönbrunn. Since
the 1920s, the Vienna Philharmonic has left town in the warmer months, too, giving its summer concert series for international audiences at the Salzburg Festival. (The Philharmonic has also given an annual “summer night concert” at Schönbrunn since 2004.) Back in the city, life takes a slower pace. Business lulls. One dreams of respite in the cool vestibule of a 19th-century building, the shade of forest bowers, the magic of another place or another time. Music, of course, allows listeners to get away without need for travel — and that kind of escape has a rich history in Vienna, too. Tonight’s program explores such journeys, charting where music might take us on a summer evening. The dance and operetta music of the Strauss family sounds throughout Vienna to this day. In their time, Johann Strauss, Jr., his father, Johann Sr., and his brothers Josef and Eduard composed the soundtrack of cosmopolitan urban leisure. Known as the “Waltz King,” Johann Jr. was one of the great musical stars of the late 19th century. His enormous output won him fans the world over and drove a new, global market for popular classical music. Many of these pieces offer an imaginary geographic escape, carrying listeners beyond the Habsburg metropolis of Vienna. The Carnival in Rome (1873), Johann Jr.’s second operetta, is based on a French comedy set in Rome at Carnival time. Strauss’s operetta paints the sunlit Italy of northern dreams, full of tarantella rhythms. The entr’acte from A Night in Venice (1883) extends the fantasy to the floating city,
PHOTO BY FRITZ LUCKHARDT, 1899
| PUBLIC DOMAIN
granting Vienna its own Venice in three-quarter time. Some works turned toward other sorts of exoticism: The Gypsy Baron (1885), for example, unfolds at the margins of the Habsburg lands near Timișoara in present-day Romania, indulging a fantasy of Romani otherness that loomed JOHANN STRAUSS, JR.
large in contemporary Viennese culture. clevelandorchestra.com
5
PHOTO BY C. STADLER/BWAG | WIKIMEDIA
Schönbrunn Palace, home of the Vienna Philharmonic’s “summer night concerts” since 2004.
If these pieces carried their first audiences abroad, the same waltzes, polkas, and quadrilles take modern-day listeners back to an idealized version of the Viennese past. In this 19th-century idyll, infectious music swirls through opulent ballrooms as dancers leave their troubles behind. Johann Jr. wrote his rustic, French-inspired Bauern-Polka (Peasants’ Polka) in 1863. The polka, a dance featuring two quick steps and a slide, was the center of a 19th-century craze across Europe — although not quite at the scale of the Viennese waltz. Also in the ballroom, the bittersweet Friedenspalmen Walzer (Peace Palm Waltz) of Josef Strauss — Johann Jr.’s middle brother — is a return home. Composed in 1866 in the aftermath of the AustroPrussian War, this waltz and others helped stage Viennese identity for a foreign audience during a time of reconstruction and renewal. With this music in the air, we sense an earlier Vienna; the PHOTO BY FRITZ LUCKHARDT, C. 1868 | PUBLIC DOMAIN
complexity of its present temporarily wiped away. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 34 belongs to a still older Austrian past: one of Classical clarity, before the 19th century’s commercial markets reshaped musical life. Mozart wrote this symphony in JOSEF STRAUSS
Salzburg in 1780, his last before moving to Vienna the following year. The work’s compact
6
BLOSSOM MUSIC FESTIVAL 2026
three-movement form, its key of C major, and its declamatory dotted rhythms evoke a period of courtly sociability, but the work also anticipates the complexity that would emerge in Mozart’s later works. The young composer’s career was ascendant, his greatest successes ahead of him. This period, too, has become the stuff of Austrian national myth. In today’s Vienna, the Mozartian and Straussian pasts intermingle freely, costumed orchestras and infectious melodies offering retreat to a past that never quite existed. The 1938 opera Daphne by Richard Strauss — no relation to Vienna’s Johann or Josef — stages a more total escape in its reframing of Greek mythology. Tonight, we hear the work’s introduction and transcendent finale. The full opera opens on the eve of the festival of Dionysus, with the nymph Daphne full of dread. Alone in the forest, she sings to the trees, rejecting the adult human world and its demands. A plaintive oboe melody previews the accompaniment of this song to the trees. When Daphne’s childhood friend Leukippos appears and confesses his love, she refuses him — she desires only the plants, the wind, and the light. The god Apollo arrives in disguise, also taken with Daphne’s beauty. He and Leukippos quarrel, and Apollo, revealing himself, kills Leukippos with an arrow; Daphne, devastated, blames PHOTO BY BAIN NEWS SERVICE, C. 1910 | PUBLIC DOMAIN
herself. The repentant god begs that she be granted her one true desire: union with the nature she so loves. The opera closes in a wordless scene as Daphne transforms into a laurel tree, her voice rising without text — sublimated at once into nature and into the music of the orchestra. Set beside Daphne’s transfiguration, the Strauss family’s sunlit Rome and welcoming Vienna might look like the lightest of diversions,
RICHARD STRAUSS
and Mozart’s Classical poise like an anachronism. On another level, however, we can hear these works as variations on a single idea. Each offers a way out: abroad to an exotic elsewhere, backward to an idealized past, or inward, beyond the self entirely. The spirit of the Viennese summer elevates such escapes as part of everyday life. For this concert, then, it is only fitting to let the trees sing, the carnival glitter, and the music transport us where it may. — Rebecca Epstein-Boley Rebecca Epstein-Boley is a cultural historian based in Chicago, Illinois.
clevelandorchestra.com
7
THE ARTI S T
FRANZ WELSER-MÖST Music Director | Kelvin Smith Family Chair
Franz Welser-Möst has formed one of the most transformative artistic legacies in the history of The Cleveland Orchestra, as its seventh and longest-serving Music Director. Now in his 25th and final season, he has shaped its sound with extraordinary care and imagination, cultivating greater warmth and flexibility, while preserving precision and transparency. Since the PHOTO BY SEBATIAN FRÖHLICH
start of his tenure in 2002–03, he has led more than 1,200 performances across 15 US states and 26 countries, and has appointed 56 of the Orchestra’s 100 current musicians. Widely admired for his interpretations of Central European and Russian repertoire, Welser-Möst has also been a champion for living composers, specifically through the Orchestra’s Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellowship. His artistic collaborations have resulted in dozens of commissions and co-commissions, and at the close of the 2026–27 season, he will have led The Cleveland Orchestra in 27 world premieres and 21 US premieres. Welser-Möst’s tenure also brought about major innovative milestones for the Orchestra, including the creation of its recording label, the launch of its streaming platform, Adella.live, and the inauguration of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival. Opera has become a defining element of Welser-Möst’s Cleveland career through acclaimed productions of Dvořák’s Rusalka, Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, and Mozart’s The Magic Flute. In May 2027, he leads a fully staged production of Richard Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten. With the appointment of Lisa Wong as Director of Choruses, Welser-Möst also elevated the all-volunteer Cleveland Orchestra Chorus as an essential artistic partner in these productions and other large works. Beyond Cleveland, Welser-Möst maintains a distinguished international career, marked by a longstanding artistic partnership with the Vienna Philharmonic. He regularly leads the ensemble at the Musikverein and on major international tours, and has already conducted the celebrated annual New Year’s concert three times. In 2024, he was named an Honorary Member of the Vienna Philharmonic, one of its highest honors. He is also celebrated for his interpretations of opera, conducting productions which have been widely acclaimed at the Salzburg Festival and the Vienna State Opera. clevelandorchestra.com
9
The Cleveland Orchestra rehearses under the baton of Karina Canellakis during a donor-exclusive open rehearsal.
• Invitations to rehearsals and recitals • Sweet ticket and retail discounts
Your Best. BLOSSOM. Ever!
• Private concessions, restrooms, and more!
Learn more at clevelandorchestra.com/benefits
2026-27 SEASON Subscriptions and single-concert tickets on sale now!
Sphinx Virtuosi with mezzo-soprano
J’Nai Bridges
October 20 7:30 p.m.
American Brass Quintet February 9 7:30 p.m.
at EJ Thomas Hall
James (Zijian) Wei, piano
A Chanticleer Christmas
November 17 7:30 p.m.
November 28 3 p.m.
Audra McDonald
Itzhak Perlman and friends
April 17 7:30 p.m.
330-761-3460
May 4 7:30 p.m.
tuesdaymusical.org
Work with Our On-Staff Designers and Find Exactly what You Dreamed of.
Turn Your Home into a Masterpiece! Choose Choosefrom fromthe thearea’s area’slargest largestand andbest bestselection selectionof ofhigh-quality high-qualityin-stock in-stockand and custom customorders ordersin inthe thelatest lateststyles. styles.Find Findthe thebest bestselection selectionand andsavings savingson onbedrooms, bedrooms,dining, dining, living livingroom, room,entertainment, entertainment,and andoutdoor outdoorfurniture. furniture.
Extraordinary ExtraordinaryFurnishings Furnishingsfor forExtraordinary ExtraordinaryHomes Homes SedlakInteriors.com SedlakInteriors.com At At Sedlak’s Sedlak’s you’ll you’ll find find Furniture, Furniture, Accessories, Accessories, Dining, Dining, Home Home Entertainment, Entertainment, Home Home Office, Office, Mattresses, Mattresses, Recliners, Recliners, Clocks, Clocks, Carpeting Carpeting && More. More.
Complimentary Complimentary Delivery Delivery and and Set-Up Set-Up Within Within 60 60 Miles. Miles. 34300 34300 Solon Solon Road Road || Solon, Solon, OH OH || 440-248-2424 440-248-2424 || 800-260-2949 800-260-2949 10-8 10-8 M/Th M/Th || 10-5:30 10-5:30 Tu/W/F/Sa Tu/W/F/Sa
MORE ROOM FOR WHAT MATTERS
©2026 California Closet Company, Inc. Each California Closets® franchised location is independently owned and operated. Local contractor licenses available at californiaclosets.com.
™
SCHEDULE YOUR COMPLIMENTARY DESIGN CONSULTATION 216.741.9000 | CALIFORNIACLOSETS.COM
CUSTOMXCLOSETS
ENTRYWAY
PANTRY
Brooklyn Heights 1100 Resource Dr Woodmere 28000 Chagrin Blvd
HOMEXOFFICE
When it comes to senior living, one size does not fit all. Call 330.867.2150 or scan the code to find your perfect fit at Ohio Living Rockynol! INDEPENDENT LIVING ASSISTED LIVING MEMORY CARE SHORT-TERM REHAB LONG-TERM NURSING CARE 1150 West Market Street | Akron, Ohio 44313 | 330.867.2150 | ohioliving.org
THE PL AC E FOR FAN S OF TH E C LEVEL AN D ORC HESTR A
JOIN NOW
EARN POINTS • Attend concerts • Watch videos • Take quizzes • Give feedback
GET REWARDS • Exclusive content • FREE season of Adella with 3000 Rewards points • VIP experiences, seat upgrades & more
CLEVELANDORCHESTR A .COM/REWARDS
SEP 4–6 THE MUSIC OF JOHN WILLIAMS
2026
Sarah Hicks, conductor
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA Franz Welser-Möst Music Director KELVIN SMITH FAMILY CHAIR FIRST VIOLINS
VIOLAS
PICCOLO
TROMBONES
Joel Link
Wesley Collins*
Mary Kay Fink
Brian Wendel*
Blossom-Lee Chair
Gareth Zehngut1^
OBOES
Richard Stout
Stanley Konopka Lisa Boyko
Frank Rosenwein* Edith S. Taplin Chair
Shachar Israel2
Corbin Stair
BASS TROMBONE
CONCERTMASTER
Elizabeth Fayette FIRST ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER Virginia M. Lindseth, PhD, Chair
Philip Marten ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER Gretchen D. and Ward Smith Chair
Zhan Shu ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER Clara G. and George P. Bickford Chair
Stephen Tavani ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER Dr. Ronald H. Krasney Chair
Wei-Fang Gu
Drs. Paul M. and Renate H. Duchesneau Chair
Kim Gomez
Chaillé H. and Richard B. Tullis Chair Charles M. and Janet G.Kimball Chair
Richard and Nancy Sneed Chair
Richard Waugh Lembi Veskimets The Morgan Sisters Chair
Eliesha Nelson^
Larry J.B. and Barbara S. Robinson Chair
Alicia Koelz
Oswald and Phyllis Lerner Gilroy Chair
Yu Yuan
Patty and John Collinson Chair
Isabel Trautwein
Trevor and Jennie Jones Chair
Katherine Bormann Paul and Lucille Jones Chair
Analise Handke Gladys B. Goetz Chair
Genevieve Smelser SECOND VIOLINS
Stephen Rose*
Alfred M. and Clara T. Rankin Chair
Eli Matthews
1
Patricia M. Kozerefski and Richard J. Bogomolny Chair
Jason Yu2
James and Donna Reid Chair
Sonja Braaten Molloy Carolyn Gadiel Warner Elayna Duitman Ioana Missits Jeffrey Zehngut^ Kathleen Collins Beth Woodside Emma Shook Dr. Jeanette Grasselli Brown and Dr. Glenn R. Brown Chair
Louis D. Beaumont Chair
TIMPANI
Robert Woolfrey
Peter Nichols2
Victoire G. and Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. Chair
Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Smucker Chair
Daniel McKelway2
PERCUSSION
Amy Zoloto E-FLAT CLARINET Stanley L. and Eloise M. Morgan Chair
BASS CLARINET
Tanya Ell
Thomas Sherwood Tanner Tanyeri Peter Nichols KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS
Thomas J. and Judith Fay Gruber Chair
Amy Zoloto
Myrna and James Spira Chair
Ralph Curry Brian Thornton
Carolyn Gadiel Warner
BASSOONS
Marjory and Marc L. Swartzbaugh Chair
William P. Blair III Chair
John Clouser*
LIBRARIAN
David Alan Harrell Martha Baldwin Dane Johansen
Gareth Thomas Catherine Van Handel2
Marguerite and James Rigby Chair
Louise Harkness Ingalls Chair
Sandra L. Haslinger Chair
Jonathan Sherwin
Michael Ferraguto* Joe and Marlene Toot Chair
ENDOWED CHAIRS CURRENTLY UNOCCUPIED
Jonathan Sherwin
Jean Wall Bennett Chair Sunshine Chair Otto G. and Corinne T. Voss Chair Rudolf Serkin Chair
Clarence T. Reinberger Chair
HORNS
CONDUCTORS
Charles Paul1
Nathaniel Silberschlag*
Paul Kushious
CONTRABASSOON
BASSES
Maximilian Dimoff* Mary E. and F. Joseph Callahan Chair
George Szell Memorial Chair
Derek Zadinsky Mark Atherton Thomas Sperl Henry Peyrebrune
Michael Mayhew
2
Charles Barr Memorial Chair
Charles Carleton Scott Dixon Brandon Mason HARP
Trina Struble*
Jiah Chung Chapdelaine Liyuan Xie Gawon Kim Dustin Wilkes-Kim
FLUTES
Alice Chalifoux Chair
Joshua Smith*
Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Chair
§
Knight Foundation Chair
MUSIC DIRECTOR LAUREATE
Taichi Fukumura ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Elizabeth Ring and William Gwinn Mather Chair
Hans Clebsch Richard King Meghan Guegold Hege^
James Feddeck
Gay Cull Addicott and Robert R. Cull Chair
Sidney and Doris Dworkin Chair
Robert B. Benyo Chair
PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR & MUSICAL ADVISOR OF THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA YOUTH ORCHESTRA
TRUMPETS
Lisa Wong
Michael Sachs*
Frances P. and Chester C. Bolton Chair
Robert and Eunice Podis Weiskopf Chair
Jack Sutte Lyle Steelman2^
James P. and Dolores D. Storer Chair
Michael Miller
DIRECTOR OF CHORUSES * Principal §
CORNETS
Austin B. and Ellen W. Chinn Chair
Mary Elizabeth and G. Robert Klein Chair
Mary Kay Fink
Michael Miller
Michael Sachs*
Associate Principal
1
First Assistant Principal
2
Assistant Principal
^ Alum of The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra †
Saeran St. Christopher Jessica Sindell2^
BLOSSOM MUSIC FESTIVAL 2026
Christoph von Dohnányi †
Jesse McCormick-Stepp
With sincere gratitude to the musicians of The Cleveland Orchestra for their in-kind contributions supporting community programs and securing funding opportunities.
14
Marc Damoulakis* Margaret Allen Ireland Chair
Daniel McKelway
Muriel and Noah Butkin Chair
Yasuhito Sugiyama*
Robert Marcellus Chair
Charles Bernard2 Bryan Dumm
EUPHONIUM & BASS TRUMPET
Nathalie C. Spence and Nathalie S. Boswell Chair
The GAR Foundation Chair Helen Weil Ross Chair
Luke Sieve
Afendi Yusuf*
Robert R. and Vilma L. Kohn Chair
Richard Weiss1
Alexander and Marianna C. McAfee Chair
TUBA
CLARINETS
Sean Juhl Gabriel Napoli^
Gilbert W. and Louise I. Humphrey Chair
Richard Stout
Samuel C. and Bernette K. Jaffe Chair
Thomas Lauria and Christopher Lauria Chair
Yun-Ting Lee
Deborah L. Neale Chair
Robert Walters Robert Walters
Mark Kosower*
Jeanne Preucil Rose
Everett D. and Eugenia S. McCurdy Chair
ENGLISH HORN
Chul-In Park
Theodore Rautenberg Chair
Jeffrey Rathbun2
William Bender
CELLOS
Miho Hashizume
Sharon and Yoash Wiener Chair
Anthony and Diane Wynshaw-Boris Chair
Elizabeth and Leslie Kondorossy Chair Harriet T. and David L. Simon Chair
2
Anne M. and M. Roger Clapp Chair
In Memoriam
This roster lists full-time members of The Cleveland Orchestra. The number and seating of musicians on stage varies depending on the piece being performed. Seating within the string sections rotates on a periodic basis.
T
he Cleveland Orchestra, under the leadership of Music Director Franz Welser-Möst since 2002, is widely recognized as one of
the world’s leading ensembles. Praised by The New York Times as “America’s Finest,” the Orchestra is renowned for its virtuosity, elegance of sound, and chamber-like musical flexibility. In his 25th
and final season as Music Director, Welser-Möst concludes a transformative partnership that has been marked by exceptional artistic ambition, growing international recognition, and deep community connection. During his tenure, the Orchestra has achieved major institutional milestones, including groundbreaking residencies at the Musikverein in Vienna — the first by an American orchestra — and at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami. In 2023, The Cleveland Orchestra launched the annual Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival, presenting acclaimed opera productions alongside art exhibits, community events, and civic conversations. Through concerts, broadcasts, recordings, tours, and digital initiatives, The Cleveland Orchestra reaches an ever-growing audience around the world. Its in-house recording label and streaming platform, Adella.live, capture and share performances from the Welser-Möst era while introducing new generations of fans to the Orchestra’s artistry. Founded by Adella Prentiss Hughes, The Cleveland Orchestra gave its inaugural concert in December 1918. Over more than a century, it has grown into a treasured community institution, enriching lives through music, education, and a deep commitment to Northeast Ohio. Today, more than 400,000 people attend Cleveland Orchestra concerts each year. From its year-round home at Severance Music Center to its summer season at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, the Orchestra continues to serve audiences across the region. Seven Music Directors — Nikolai Sokoloff, Artur Rodziński, Erich Leinsdorf, George Szell, Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnányi, and Franz Welser-Möst — have shaped the
PHOTO BY YE VHEN GULENKO
ensemble’s distinctive musical identity and celebrated “Cleveland sound.” Welser-Möst’s tenure as the longest-serving Music Director in Cleveland Orchestra history stands as a defining chapter in that evolution.
@ClevelandOrchestra
@cleveorch
@CleveOrchestra
@clevelandorchestra
clevelandorchestra.com
15
The best classrooms have no walls. Learning happens differently when students extend their studies beyond the classroom and into the natural world.
Preschool to Grade 8 | OldTrail.org
OCT. 1–4, 2026 Join us at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens for Ohio Mart, a four-day autumn festival featuring 150 juried artisans! Shop unique handcrafted treasures, enjoy local food vendors, and explore the popular Textile Arts & Artisan Show. | stanhywet.org
DISCOVER. SHOP. SAVOR.
Summer Means BLOSSOM! Your nonprofit Blossom Music Festival relies on support from great friends like YOU.
Be a champion for Blossom with your donation! Scan QR to visit clevelandorchestra.com/blossomfund Text GIVE to 844-955-4377
YOUR VISIT LATE SEATING
SMOKING
Guests with Pavilion seats who arrive after the start of the concert may be asked to wait outside the Pavilion until the first convenient pause in the music, after which our ushers will help you to your seats.
All Blossom Music Festival events are presented in a smoke-free environment. Smoking or vaping are not allowed anywhere on the grounds or in buildings once you have entered through the ticket gates. A smoking area is available outside the gates in a designated area of Parking Lot A.
LAWN SEATING Guests on the Lawn may bring their own chairs, but guests with high-backed chairs that obstruct others’ views may be asked to relocate to the rear of the Lawn. Rental chairs are available for a fee of $10 per evening. Tents, flags, balloons, or other structures that might obstruct views or present a hazard are not allowed. Open flames are also prohibited.
PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEOGRAPHY & RECORDING Audio recording, photography, and videography are not allowed during performances at Blossom. Photographs and videos can only be taken when the performance is not in progress. As a courtesy to others, please silence all electronic devices prior to the start of the concert.
WEATHER INFORMATION In the event of severe weather, a coordinated campus-wide alert will be issued. Guests and staff will be directed to safety by venue staff and the public address system. Download The Cleveland Orchestra app or visit clevelandorchestra.com/weather for weather updates and more information.
FREE TRAM & ADA VAN SERVICE Free tram service between the parking lots and Smith Plaza and the Pavilion is available on a continuous basis before and after each concert. The ADA Van Service can pick up at the Main Gate with service to the Tram Circle.
QUESTIONS? Visit our Information Center, hosted by the Blossom Friends of The Cleveland Orchestra, inside the Main Gate on Smith Plaza.
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA APP
The Cleveland Orchestra is grateful to these organizations for their ongoing generous support of The Cleveland Orchestra: National Endowment for the Arts, the State of Ohio and Ohio Arts Council, and to the residents of Cuyahoga County through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.
Official Mobile App of TCO Explore upcoming concerts, purchase and access your tickets, receive performance updates, and more. For more information and direct links to download, visit
clevelandorchestra.com/visit/ tco-app or scan the QR code with your smartphone camera. Available for iOS and Android on Google Play and at the Apple App Store.
© 2026 The Cleveland Orchestra and the Musical Arts Association Program books for Cleveland Orchestra concerts are produced by The Cleveland Orchestra and are distributed free to attending audience members. EDITORIAL Kevin McBrien, Editorial & Publications Manager, The Cleveland Orchestra kmcbrien@clevelandorchestra.com Ellen Sauer Tanyeri, Archives & Editorial Assistant, The Cleveland Orchestra DESIGN Judy Barabas, Red Swing Creative ADVERTISING Live Publishing Company, 216-721-1800 PLEASE RECYCLE
18
BLOSSOM MUSIC FESTIVAL 2026
wealth mission
Let’s talk vision
investments legacy
Every so often you reach a moment that demands an important conversation. When it arrives, Glenmede is ready with sophisticated wealth and investment management solutions delivered with the personalized service you deserve. glenmede.com