Movie music has been cropping up on more and more Cleveland Orchestra programs in recent seasons — even when it’s not advertised.
This was all to the good at Severance Music Center on Thursday, July 25. The Orchestra sounded very much its polished self in the second concert of this year’s Summers at Severance series, the set of strictly classical offerings that the ensemble has brought back to balance out this summer’s lighter programming at Blossom Music Center.
All the same, summer was in full swing on Euclid Avenue. The front terrace outside Severance was strung with lights and set up with white tents serving refreshments. Thursday’s concert may have started with an old-school tone poem by César Franck and ended with Antonín Dvořák’s Sixth Symphony, but the piece that came between would have been right at home as part of a movie night at Blossom.