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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 Guaranyby 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 Tarby john philip sousa (1854-1932)

Symphonic Synthesis: Victory at Seaby richard rodgers (1902-1979)

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

A SALUTE TO America

Program: July 3 and 4

Thursday evening, July 3, 2014, at 8:00 p.m.Friday evening, July 4, 2014, at 8:00 p.m.

BLOSSOM FESTIVAL BAND LORAS JOHN SCHISSEL , conductor

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Humoresque on Jerome Kern’s “Look for the Silver Lining”

by john philip sousa

November 25, 1963compiled 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 1812by pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

This concert is being broadcast on Friday evening, July 4, on radio WCLV 104.9 FM.

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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 fi reworks display by American Fireworks Company will take place immediately following the concert, weather permitting.

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KeyBank proudly supports The Cleveland Orchestra. We are pleased to sponsor this Blossom Festival Concert which celebrates our Country’s Freedom!

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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!

celebrating our community

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Loras John Schissel Conductor Blossom Festival Band

T H I S S E A S O N 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 con ducting 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 fi rst appeared on PBS in April 2002, received extensive coverage and critical acclaim. He also created musical scores for two fi lms 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 lead-ing 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 conjunc-tion 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 con-ductor 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 frequent-ly 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.

Conductor

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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FLUTE/PICCOLO

Kyra Kester PRINCIPAL

John RautenbergDiondre McKinneySally Sherwin

OBOE

Elizabeth Camus PRINCIPAL

Robert Royse

ENGLISH HORN

Robert Royse

B-FLAT CLARINET

Amitai Vardi PRINCIPAL

Stanislav GolovinJames KalynDrew SullivanTom ReedBlair HotzAlix ReinhardtLindsay CharnofskyDenise SoulsbyLuiz Coelho

E-FLAT CLARINET

Dennis Nygren

E-FLAT ALTO CLARINET

David Adamson

BASS CLARINET

Lisa Antoniou

BASSOON

Mark DeMio PRINCIPAL

Todd Jelen

SAXOPHONE

Howie Smith, soprano PRINCIPAL

Rich Shanklin, altoKent Engelhardt, tenorGeorge Shernit, baritone

HORN

Meghan Guegold PRINCIPAL

Cynthia Wulff Kent LarmeeBenjamin Reidhead Lisa Christensen

CORNET

Michael Mergen PRINCIPAL

Kyle DobbeckLoren ToplitzJohn Brndiar

TRUMPET

Alexander Pride PRINCIPAL

Marc Sutton

TROMBONE

James Albrecht PRINCIPAL

Paul FergusonEdward ZadroznyJason Smith

EUPHONIUM

Travis Scott PRINCIPAL

Rebecca Ciabattari

TUBA

John DiCesare PRINCIPAL

Jason KoiJ.c. ShermanDaniel Honaker

TIMPANI

Dylan Moffi tt PRINCIPAL

PERCUSSION

Bruce Golden PRINCIPAL

Frank Del PianoJack DiIanniMatthew LarsonThomas Morris

HARP

Jody Guinn PRINCIPAL

STRING BASS

Tracy Rowell PRINCIPAL

LIBRARIAN

Nishana Dobbeck

PERSONNEL

Karyn Garvin DIRECTOR

Christine Honolke MANAGER

2014 BLOSSOM FESTIVAL BAND

Blossom Festival BandC O N S I D E R E D O N E O F T H E F I N E S T ensembles of its kind in the nation, the Blossom Festival Band performs each summer in Northeast Ohio, continuing a long and well-loved 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 off erings at Blossom since 1969. That year, a Fourth-of-July band concert was presented as part of the second an-nual 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 fl utist. 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 sum-mer 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 fi rst album, under the direction of Lo-ras John Schissel. It was released as a CD by the Musical Arts Association (parent organ i-zation of The Cleveland Orchestra).

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FLUTE/PICCOLO

Kyra Kester PRINCIPAL

John RautenbergDiondre McKinneySally Sherwin

OBOE

Elizabeth Camus PRINCIPAL

Robert Royse

ENGLISH HORN

Robert Royse

B-FLAT CLARINET

Amitai Vardi PRINCIPAL

Stanislav GolovinJames KalynDrew SullivanTom ReedBlair HotzAlix ReinhardtLindsay CharnofskyDenise SoulsbyLuiz Coelho

E-FLAT CLARINET

Dennis Nygren

E-FLAT ALTO CLARINET

David Adamson

BASS CLARINET

Lisa Antoniou

BASSOON

Mark DeMio PRINCIPAL

Todd Jelen

SAXOPHONE

Howie Smith, soprano PRINCIPAL

Rich Shanklin, altoKent Engelhardt, tenorGeorge Shernit, baritone

HORN

Meghan Guegold PRINCIPAL

Cynthia Wulff Kent LarmeeBenjamin Reidhead Lisa Christensen

CORNET

Michael Mergen PRINCIPAL

Kyle DobbeckLoren ToplitzJohn Brndiar

TRUMPET

Alexander Pride PRINCIPAL

Marc Sutton

TROMBONE

James Albrecht PRINCIPAL

Paul FergusonEdward ZadroznyJason Smith

EUPHONIUM

Travis Scott PRINCIPAL

Rebecca Ciabattari

TUBA

John DiCesare PRINCIPAL

Jason KoiJ.c. ShermanDaniel Honaker

TIMPANI

Dylan Moffi tt PRINCIPAL

PERCUSSION

Bruce Golden PRINCIPAL

Frank Del PianoJack DiIanniMatthew LarsonThomas Morris

HARP

Jody Guinn PRINCIPAL

STRING BASS

Tracy Rowell PRINCIPAL

LIBRARIAN

Nishana Dobbeck

PERSONNEL

Karyn Garvin DIRECTOR

Christine Honolke MANAGER

2014 BLOSSOM FESTIVAL BAND

Blossom Festival BandC O N S I D E R E D O N E O F T H E F I N E S T ensembles of its kind in the nation, the Blossom Festival Band performs each summer in Northeast Ohio, continuing a long and well-loved 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 off erings at Blossom since 1969. That year, a Fourth-of-July band concert was presented as part of the second an-nual 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 fl utist. 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 sum-mer 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 fi rst album, under the direction of Lo-ras John Schissel. It was released as a CD by the Musical Arts Association (parent organ i-zation of The Cleveland Orchestra).

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Hollywood Under the StarsTHE GREAT FILM SCORES of our time. Hollywood maestro Richard Kaufman leads a blockbuster trib-ute to some of Hollywood’s most memorable fi lm music, with selections from Lawrence of Arabia, Lincoln, Gone with the Wind, Th e Godfather, Th e Magnifi cent Seven, Th e Right Stuff , and more.

July 13 Sunday

August 3 Sunday

Sci-Fi SpectacularMUSIC FROM A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY. Join Th e Cleveland Orchestra on a musical journey through space and time . . . to the fi nal frontier! Explore strange, new worlds with tunes and tones from the biggest and best science fi ction 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!

Broadway Standing OvationsA “WICKED” GOOD EVENING. Come to Blossom for a concert of Broadway showstoppers, includ-ing selections from Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Les Misérables, and more. And featuring the comedic Christina Bianco in excerpts from her Diva Mo-ments solo show, bringing down the house with her celebrity impressions of Julie Andrews, Barbra Strei-sand, Judy Garland, and more.

July 27 Sunday

EXPERIENCE BLOSSOM!See a full listing of 2014 Blossom Music Festival concerts on pages 36-37 of the Festival Book.