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A SALUTE TO AMERICA Blossom Festival Band Loras John Schissel, conductor A fireworks display by American Fireworks Company will take place immediately following this concert, weather permitting.
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Thursday evening, July 3, 2014, at 8:00 p.m. Friday evening, July 4, 2014, at 8:00 p.m.
B LOSSOM F ESTIVAL BAN D LO R A S J O H N S C H I S S E L , conductor
A SALUTE TO America The Star-Spangled Banner
poem by Francis Scott Key, to an existing tune by John Stafford Smith (arranged for band by Loras John Schissel)
Overture: Il Guarany
by antonio
carlos gomes (1836-1896)
Variations on a Shaker Melody by aaron
copland (1900-1990)
George F. Root’s “The Battle Cry of Freedom” arranged by anthony
o’toole (b. 1988)
March: Jack Tar
by john
philip sousa (1854-1932)
Symphonic Synthesis: Victory at Sea by richard
rodgers (1902-1979)
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Blossom Music Festival
Program: July 3 and 4
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Humoresque on Jerome Kern’s “Look for the Silver Lining” by john
philip sousa
November 25, 1963
compiled by loras
john schissel (b. 1964)
March-Past of the U.S. Armed Forces traditional
Performed in tribute to the men and women, past and present, of the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Air Force
Overture: The Year 1812
by pyotr
ilyich tchaikovsky
(1840-1893)
This concert is being broadcast on Friday evening, July 4, on radio WCLV 104.9 FM.
Thursday evening’s concert is sponsored by The J.M. Smucker Company, a Cleveland Orchestra Partner in Excellence, as part of the Orchestra’s Blossom Celebrations Series.
Friday evening’s concert is sponsored by KeyBank, a Cleveland Orchestra Partner in Excellence. This concert is dedicated to Richard and Nancy Sneed in recognition of their extraordinary generosity in support of The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2013-14 Annual Fund. Media Partners: WCLV Classical 104.9 FM ideastream® and The Plain Dealer
A fireworks display by American Fireworks Company will take place immediately following the concert, weather permitting.
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Program: July 3 and 4
2014 Blossom Festival
celebrating our community We enjoy living and working in our community for the same reasons you do. That’s why supporting our traditions and celebrations is a big part of our investment in the community. KeyBank proudly supports The Cleveland Orchestra. We are pleased to sponsor this Blossom Festival Concert which celebrates our Country’s Freedom! go to key.com/community
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Loras John Schissel Conductor Blossom Festival Band
marks Loras John Schissel’s seventeenth year as conductor of the Blossom Festival Band. He also regularly conducts the Blossom Festival Orchestra. He has also led The Cleveland Orchestra’s free annual concert on Public Square in 2009, 2011 (a special 9/11 tenth anniversary concert), and 2014. Mr. Schissel has travelled throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia conducting orchestras, bands, and choral ensembles in a broad range of musical styles and varied programs. A native of New Hampton, Iowa, Loras John Schissel studied brass instruments and conducting with Carlton Stewart, Frederick Fennell, and John Paynter. In the years following his studies at the University of Northern Iowa, Mr. Schissel has distinguished himself as a prominent conductor, orchestrator, and musicologist. He has just completed his 20th season as founding music director of the Arlington-based Virginia Grand Military Band, an ensemble comprised of current and former members of the four major U.S. service bands. In 2005, Mr. Schissel was elected to membership in the prestigious American Bandmasters Association. As a composer and orchestrator, Mr. Schissel has created an extensive catalogue of over 500 works for orchestra, symphonic wind band, and jazz ensemble, published exclusively by Ludwig/Masters Music. His musical score for Bill Moyers: America’s First River, The Hudson, which first appeared on PBS in April 2002, received extensive coverage and critical acclaim. He also created musical scores for two films for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Home in Hyde Park, New York. As a recording artist, Mr. Schissel has amassed a large discography with a wide variety of ensembles and various musical genres. Loras John Schissel is a senior musicologist at the Library of Congress and a leading authority on the music of Percy Aldridge Grainger, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Serge Koussevitzky. Schissel and John Philip Sousa IV (great-grandson of the composer) recently co-authored a book titled John Philip Sousa’s America: A Patriot’s Life in Images and Words, a photo-biography of the March King. 20th Century Fox reissued the Clifton Webb classic The Stars and Stripes Forever in conjunction with the Sousa-Schissel book. Mr. Schissel is currently writing a study of the famed impresario Sergei Diaghilev. Deeply committed to young musicians, Loras John Schissel has appeared as conductor of All-State music festivals and of festival bands and orchestras in more than thirty states. He has conducted the Berea All-County Orchestra Festival and regularly visits Baldwin Wallace University as conductor of the Summer Band Camp there. He frequently appears with the Patriot Band of Avon Lake, Strongsville Community Band, Lakewood Hometown Band, and the Packard Band of Warren, Ohio. In July 2008, Mr. Schissel made his debut with “Pershing’s Own,” the United States Army Band, on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. THIS SEASON
BOOK AND CD SIGNING — Loras John Schissel signs copies of his book about John Philip Sousa and Blossom Festival Band CDs each night post-concert at the Special Events Center, at the top of the hill just inside the Main Gate and across from Emily’s Garden. CDs and the book are for sale at the Bandwagon Gift Shop.
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Conductor
2014 Blossom Festival
Blossom Festival Band ensembles of its kind in the nation, the Blossom Festival Band performs each summer in Northeast Ohio, continuing a long and wellloved tradition of outdoor band concerts in the United States. The ensemble has its roots in historic American band music and some of its legendary leaders. Band music has been a part of each summer’s musical offerings at Blossom since 1969. That year, a Fourth-of-July band concert was presented as part of the second annual Blossom Music Festival. From 1969 to 1973, these band concerts were conducted by Meredith Willson (composer of Broadway’s The Music Man), who at age 17 had toured with the Sousa Band as a flutist. Based on the success of these concerts, a genuine symphonic band and concert program was organized under the direction of Leonard B. Smith, another of this country’s most respected band directors (he was music director of the nationally known Detroit Concert Band for many years and a widely acclaimed cornet soloist). Mr. Smith made his Blossom debut conducting “The Golden Symphonic Band of Blossom Music Center” in “A Salute to Labor Day” on September 4, 1972. The success of that concert provided the impetus to schedule a series of concerts during the 1973 summer season, with a newly selected band of 65 instrumentalists from the Cleveland area. David Zauder (1928-2013), a former student of Smith and a longtime member of The Cleveland Orchestra’s trumpet and cornet section, served as a guiding spirit for the Band and regularly performed as cornet soloist with the ensemble. Leonard B. Smith served as director from 1972 until his retirement in 1997. Since 1998, the Blossom Festival Band has been conducted by Loras John Schissel. In 2004, the Blossom Festival Band recorded its first album, under the direction of Loras John Schissel. It was released as a CD by the Musical Arts Association (parent organization of The Cleveland Orchestra).
CONSIDERED ONE OF THE FINEST
2014 BLOSSOM FESTIVAL BAND FLUTE/PICCOLO
E-FLAT CLARINET
CORNET
TIMPANI
Dennis Nygren
Michael Mergen
Dylan Moffitt
John Rautenberg Diondre McKinney Sally Sherwin
E-FLAT ALTO CLARINET
Kyle Dobbeck Loren Toplitz John Brndiar
OBOE
Lisa Antoniou
Kyra Kester PRINCIPAL
David Adamson BASS CLARINET
PRINCIPAL
PRINCIPAL
PERCUSSION
Bruce Golden PRINCIPAL
Robert Royse
Mark DeMio
Marc Sutton
Frank Del Piano Jack DiIanni Matthew Larson Thomas Morris
ENGLISH HORN
Todd Jelen
TROMBONE
HARP
James Albrecht
Jody Guinn
Elizabeth Camus PRINCIPAL
Robert Royse B-FLAT CLARINET
Amitai Vardi PRINCIPAL
Stanislav Golovin James Kalyn Drew Sullivan Tom Reed Blair Hotz Alix Reinhardt Lindsay Charnofsky Denise Soulsby Luiz Coelho
Blossom Festival 2014
BASSOON PRINCIPAL
SAXOPHONE
Howie Smith, soprano PRINCIPAL
Rich Shanklin, alto Kent Engelhardt, tenor George Shernit, baritone HORN
TRUMPET
Alexander Pride PRINCIPAL
PRINCIPAL
Paul Ferguson Edward Zadrozny Jason Smith EUPHONIUM
Travis Scott PRINCIPAL
Meghan Guegold
Rebecca Ciabattari
Cynthia Wulff Kent Larmee Benjamin Reidhead Lisa Christensen
TUBA
PRINCIPAL
John DiCesare PRINCIPAL
Jason Koi J.c. Sherman Daniel Honaker
Blossom Festival Band
PRINCIPAL
STRING BASS
Tracy Rowell PRINCIPAL
LIBRARIAN
Nishana Dobbeck PERSONNEL
Karyn Garvin DIRECTOR
Christine Honolke MANAGER
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EXPERIENCE BLOSSOM!
See a full listing of 2014 Blossom Music Festival concerts on pages 36-37of the Festival Book.
July 13 Sunday
Sci-Fi Spectacular MUSIC FROM A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY. Join The Cleveland Orchestra on a musical journey through space and time . . . to the final frontier! Explore strange, new worlds with tunes and tones from the biggest and best science fiction TV shows and movies, including selections from Star Trek, Star Wars, E.T., and 2001: A Space Odyssey. An out-of-this-world musical adventure. Live long and prosper!
July 27 Sunday
Broadway Standing Ovations A “WICKED” GOOD EVENING . Come to Blossom for a concert of Broadway showstoppers, including selections from Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Les Misérables, and more. And featuring the comedic Christina Bianco in excerpts from her Diva Moments solo show, bringing down the house with her celebrity impressions of Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Judy Garland, and more.
August 3 Sunday
Hollywood Under the Stars THE GREAT FILM SCORES of our time. Hollywood maestro Richard Kaufman leads a blockbuster tribute to some of Hollywood’s most memorable film music, with selections from Lawrence of Arabia, Lincoln, Gone with the Wind, The Godfather, The Magnificent Seven, The Right Stuff, and more.