sunday August 3HOLLYWOOD UNDER THE STARSThe Cleveland OrchestraRichard Kaufman, conductorMichael Sachs, trumpet

2O14BLOSSOMMUSIC FESTIVALS U M M E R H O M E O F

THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA

2 Blossom Music Festival

Sunday evening, August 3, 2014, at 7:00 p.m.

T H E C L E V E L A N D O R C H E S T R A conducted by RICHARD KAUFMAN

Program: August 3

2O14BLOSSOMMUSIC FESTIVAL

Hooray for Hollywoodby John Williams

“Parade of Charioteers” from Ben Hurmusic by Miklós Rózsa

“Flying Over Africa” from Out of Africamusic by John Barry

“Godfather’s Waltz” and “Love Theme” from The Godfathermusic by Nino Rota

Music from Lawrence of Arabiamusic by Maurice Jarre

Suite from The Naturalmusic by Randy Newman

End Credits from Davemusic by James Newton Howard

“Feather Theme” from Forrest Gumpmusic by Randy Newman

Music from Silveradomusic by Bruce Broughton

I N T E R M I S S I O N

HOLLYWOODU N D E R T H E S TA R S

3Blossom Music Festival Program: August 3

Suite from The Untouchablesmusic by Ennio Morricone

Tara: A Short Poem for Orchestra from Gone with the Wind

music by Max Steiner; arranged by Campbell-Watson

“With Malice Towards None” from Lincolnmusic by John Williams

MICHAEL SACHS, trumpet

Music from The Spirit of St. Louismusic by Franz Waxman

Suite from Airplane!music by Elmer Bernstein

Finale from The Right Stuffmusic by Bill Conti

Suite from The Magni cent Sevenmusic by Elmer Bernstein

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This concert is supported by the David E. and Jane J. Griffi ths Blossom Festival Family Concerts Fund.

This concert is dedicated to Giuliana C. and John D. Kochin recognition of their extraordinary generosity in support

of The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2013-14 Annual Fund.

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4 The Cleveland Orchestra

Richard KaufmanRichard Kaufman has devoted much of his musical life to conducting and supervising music for fi lm and television productions, as well as performing fi lm and classical music in concert halls and on recordings. He made his Cleveland Or-chestra debut in May 2009, and his most recent appearance with the Orchestra was during the 2013 Blossom Music Festi-val. He returns at the end of August for this summer’s Family FunFest on August 30. Mr. Kaufman begins his 24th year as principal pops conductor with Orange County’s Pacifi c Symphony with the 2014-15 season. He also holds the title of pops conductor lau-reate with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and begins a ninth season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s “Friday Night at the Movies” series. In addition, he regularly appears as a guest conductor with symphony orchestras throughout the United States and around the world. Richard Kaufman received the 1993 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumen-tal Performance. His most recent recording, with the London Symphony Orches-tra, received a 2013 Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Accompaniment for a Vocal (“Wild is the Wind,” arranged by Nan Schwartz). Other recordings include fi lm music with the Brandenburg Philharmonic, Nuremberg Symphony, and New Zea-land Symphony. Mr. Kaufman has conducted for many performers and entertainers, includ-ing John Denver and Andy Williams. As a violinist, he has performed on the soundtracks of numerous fi lm and television scores, including Jaws, Close Encoun-ters of the Th ird Kind, and Animal House. Mr. Kaufman joined the MGM Music Department in 1984 as music coordi-nator, and for the next eighteen years supervised music for MGM fi lm and televi-sion projects. He received two Emmy Award nominations. As a unique part of his career in fi lm, Mr. Kaufman has coached various actors in musical roles, in-cluding Jack Nicholson, Dudley Moore, and Tom Hanks. He has served as music director and conductor for staged musicals, in Los Angeles and on national tours, including the First National Tours of Company (for Hal Prince) and Two Gentle-men of Verona (for Joseph Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival). Born in Los Angeles, Richard Kaufman began violin studies at age 7. He at-tended the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood in the Fellowship program, and earned a bachelor’s degree in music from California State University Northridge. For additional information, visit www.kaufmanconductor.com.

Conductor

5Blossom Festival 2014

Michael Sachs Principal Trumpet, Robert and Eunice Podis Weiskopf Endowed Chair Solo Cornet, Mary Elizabeth and G. Robert Klein Endowed Chair The Cleveland Orchestra

Michael Sachs joined Th e Cleveland Orchestra as principal trumpet in 1988. His many performances as soloist with the Orchestra include the world premieres of John Williams’s Concerto for Trumpet and Michael Hersch’s Night Pieces for trumpet and orchestra (both commissioned by the Orchestra for Mr. Sachs) and, most recently, the world premiere in Au-gust 2012 of Matthias Pintscher’s Chute d’Étoiles, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst at the Lucerne Festival, followed by the work’s Cleveland and New York premieres. In January 2014, Michael Sachs was named music di-rector of the Strings Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado; he will begin his tenure in summer 2015. Mr. Sachs has also been extensively involved in the planning of a concert in June 2014, recording, and DVD project involving music of Gabrieli, Copland, and a new work by John Williams. Th is project featured principal members of the orchestras of Boston, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. Mr. Sachs’s artistry can be heard on more than 150 recorded works with Th e Cleveland Orchestra. His recital with organist Todd Wilson is available on an album titled Live from Severance Hall. He has also performed as guest soloist with orchestras and chamber groups across the U.S. and internationally. Michael Sachs serves as chairman of the brass division and head of the trum-pet department at the Cleveland Institute of Music. In addition to serving on the faculty of leading summer festivals — including the Aspen Music Festival, Ble-kinge International Brass Academy, Domaine Forget, Grand Teton Music Festival, National Brass Symposium, National Orchestral Institute, and Summit Brass — he presents masterclasses and workshops at conservatories and major universities throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia as a clinician for Conn-Selmer. Michel Sachs is the author of several books, including Daily Fundamentals for the Trumpet, 14 Duets for Trumpet and Trombone (with Joseph Alessi), and Th e Orchestral Trumpet, a 175-page comprehensive book and CD overview of standard orchestral trumpet repertoire. He has also been integrally involved in the acoustic design and play testing for a new Artisan line of Bach Stradivarius trumpets. Before coming to Cleveland, Mr. Sachs was a member of the Houston Sym-phony Orchestra, performed with the Houston Grand Opera, and was a faculty member of Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. Originally from Los Angeles, Michael Sachs earned a bachelor of arts degree in history from the Uni-versity of California Los Angeles prior to attending the Juilliard School. His for-mer teachers include Mark Gould, Anthony Plog, and James Stamp. For additional information, please visit www.michaelsachs.com.

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