Brett Mitchell to open The Cleveland Orchestra’s classical series at the 2024 Blossom Music Festival
Brett Mitchell will lead the opening concert of The Cleveland Orchestra’s classical series at the 2024 Blossom Music Festival. (Photograph by Roger Mastroianni)
CLEVELAND — For the second time in four seasons, The Cleveland Orchestra has announced that Brett Mitchell will lead the opening concert of their classical series at the 2024 Blossom Music Festival.
On Saturday, July 6, Mr. Mitchell will be joined by banjoist Béla Fleck—fresh off his latest Grammy Award wins—to mark the centennial of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with his dazzling new transcription of this beloved showpiece. Mr. Mitchell rounds out this all-American evening with orchestral gems by Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, and William Grant Still.
The complete program:
BERNSTEIN - Three Dance Episodes from On the Town
GERSHWIN (trans. Fleck) - Rhapsody in Blue
Béla Fleck, banjo
BARBER - Overture to The School for Scandal
STILL - Symphony No. 1 (Afro-American Symphony)
Mr. Mitchell also led The Cleveland Orchestra in the opening concert of their classical series at the 2021 Blossom Music Festival, which marked the orchestra’s first public performance since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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