CLEVELAND —  The Cleveland Orchestra's summer tour of Europe will include festivals in Austria and Switzerland and first-time appearances in Milan and Turin, Italy.

The tour includes 13 performances from August 17 through September 3. It will take the orchestra to festivals in Salzburg, Austria, and Lucerne, Switzerland.

It will also include an August 16 symposium in Salzburg on music and the brain co-sponsored by the Cleveland Clinic research hospital.

The orchestra, under the direction of Franz Welser-Moest, announced the tour schedule Tuesday.

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