Blossom Festival
blossom festival summer music festival orchestral music located blossom music center cuyahoga fall ohio festival originally created provide summer concert vehicle cleveland orchestra blossom music center specifically built host festival festival first season consisted six week concert given cleveland orchestra intermingled eight individual jazzfolk music concert george szell conducted first concert july since festival expanded include ten week orchestral music still performed cleveland orchestra also includes concert festival blossom festival orchestra blossom festival orchestra made freelance musician cleveland area mostly pulling musician cleveland pop orchestra opera cleveland orchestra apollo fire orchestra performs annually blossom festival often appearing cleveland orchestra summer performance engagement outside cleveland area july blossom festival made history premiering first live concert performance hoctors ballet one last orchestral work gershwin blossom festival music director last person serve capacity jahja ling stepped position orchestra eliminated post orchestra fulltime music director franz welsermöst charge classical music concert regular concert season cleveland summer concert blossom festival leonard slatkin festival director saw festival happening