Debussy's La Mer at Blossom Music Center

The Cleveland Orchestra
Kahchun Wong, conductor
Zlatomir Fung, cello

AKUTAGAWA Music for Symphony Orchestra

SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1

DEBUSSY La mer

Take a sonic trip to the ocean. Debussy developed his love of the sea during childhood visits to the Mediterranean, and this imaginative, impressionistic sketch captures all the moods of the sea, from tranquil to ominous and stormy, dazzling and full of elemental force.