The Lakeside Symphony Orchestra is celebrating its 45^th season. Robert Cronquist will be returning to Lakeside for his 38th year as conductor of the Lakeside Symphony Orchestra - presenting another wonderful season of great music and outstanding soloists.  Cronquist also conducts the historic Cleveland Women’s Orchestra – www.clevelandwomensorchestra.org.  

The final week of Lakeside’s Symphony season brings the return of Jae won Lee on August 19 for her third appearance at Lakeside.  She will perform Rachmaninoff’s “Piano Concert #2 in C-Minor.”    This wonderful concerto, Rachmaninoff’s most popular work, contains an exciting array of familiar melodies and glorious sound.     Closing this program is another blockbuster, the “E-Minor Symphony” of Jan Sibelius.  Written in 1899 when Sibelius was 34 years old, the symphony was initially quite unpopular because of its key of E-Minor.  But as it was performed more, the public and critics began to appreciate the wonderful colors and moods of Finland expressed in the work.   The symphony has a grandeur and melancholy that creates the magic spell of the “northcountry.”