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A FREE professional choral concert of stunning and powerful music, illuminating injustice and showing how music comforts, heals, challenges, memorializes, and invigorates.
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State University, when four students were killed and nine injured while protesting the United States’ invasion of Cambodia. The Cleveland Chamber Choir will be joined by Kent’s Theodore Roosevelt High School ChoralWorks in commemorating this event through We March On! Music of Social Justice. We will present music that illumines injustice in the world and memorializes those who are working to make the world a better place.
Works featured include Joel Thompson’s shocking Seven Last Words of the Unarmed and music by British and American composers Ethyl Smythe (Songs of Sunrise), Linda Kachelmeier (Each of Us), and Catherine Dalton (She Stood For Freedom, a nod to the Rosa Parks story). The Chamber Choir will also premiere a new commission by Natsumi Osborn (Oberlin College). For her piece Legacy, Osborn was deeply inspired by the poem of the same name by Megan Neville-Jellen, which draws moving imagery from ... view more »
ADMISSION INFO
FREE (free-will donation of $20 suggested). A portion of the free-will donations will go towards Women For Women Ohio, a non-profit focused on supporting the education of girls in Cambodia.
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The Cleveland Chamber Choir marks the 50th Anniversary of the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State University with We March On! Music of Social Justice. Music has long been a source of comfort, allowing the expression of frustration with the status quo and hope for a better world. This powerful concert will present music that memorializes, comforts, speaks truth to power, and illumines both injustice in the world as well as the just who are working to make the world a better place. Featuring Joel Thompson’s Seven Last Words of the Unarmed and music by British and American composers Ethyl Smythe, Linda Kachelmeier, and Catherine Dalton. The collective power of this amazing music sung by the world-class voices of the Cleveland Chamber Choir is not to be missed.
LOCATION
1400 E Main St, Kent, OH 44240