A Summer of Music

A SUMMER 2O21

OF MUSIC

Education and community programs continued or resumed in the outdoors across the summer, including: Musicians of The Cleveland Orchestra performed at the La Placita Latino Festival, while audiences enjoyed One World Day festivities in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens. A string trio helped celebrate Cleveland Clinic’s centennial. And, in June the Youth Orchestra met onstage at Blossom for a weekend of music and memories.

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On Sunday, August 15, members of the annual Martin Luther King Community Chorus and their families joined for a reunion at Blossom Music Center, just ahead of an Orchestra performance that evening.

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The Cleveland Orchestra’s fi rst-ever Blossom Summer Soirée was held on August 22 as a new fundraising event to benefi t the Orchestra’s summer home. Guests mingled and then enjoyed dinner in the Knight Grove before that evening’s all-Brahms Cleveland Orchestra concert. This memorable event raised over $100,000 toward Blossom’s annual Music Festival, helping to preserve this Northeast Ohio summer tradition for fans from across Ohio and beyond.

Photography by Roger Mastroianni, Jane Medoro, Sarah Lamb, Alan Harrell, and Marty Carrick (Cleveland Clinic).