Cleveland Orchestra to Perform Free Community Concert in Hough This Week

The Cleveland Orchestra will perform a free community concert the evening of Thursday, August 11.

Led by Cleveland Orchestra Associate Conductor Brett Mitchell, the concert includes classical music by American composers and choral selections of gospel music as well as Rosamond Johnson's spiritual Lift Every Voice and Sing, and Copland's Lincoln Portrait narrated by Judge Patricia Ann Blackmon.

A Hough Community Chorus made up of Hough residents and Cleveland Orchestra Chorus members will join the Orchestra in several selections.

Complete information about this concert and the neighborhood residency is at the following links: bit.ly/2b8TwL3 and bit.ly/2aCVXbJ.

IF YOU GO:

Thursday, August 11, 2016

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Music & Art Showcase

7:30 pm Cleveland Orchestra Concert

Showcase will feature music and visual art talents from the Hough community: Music performances by student musicians from the Rainey Institute's El Sistema@Rainey program and student percussionists from the Lexington Bell Community Center. An exhibit created by the Cleveland Museum of Art will feature photographs of Hough residents that have been submitted throughout the residency titled "Clevelanders: Portraits of Our Community." The Cleveland Museum of Art will also display their year-long centennial self-portrait project highlighted by banners celebrating the Hough community.

At East Professional Center (formerly East High School), 1349 E. 79th Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44103

*Live broadcast online at clevelandorchestra.com and ideastream.org. A live radio broadcast of the concert will air on WCLV Classical 104.9 ideastream. A delayed TV broadcast will be shown on WVIZ/PBS on Friday, August 12 at 9:00 pm and will repeat on Sunday, August 14 at 3:00 pm.

This summer, The Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Museum of Art are celebrating music and art in Hough, a historic neighborhood east of downtown Cleveland. This new partnership between two of Ohio's premier cultural organizations is designed to create partnerships with communities to develop new and meaningful ways to enliven our community with arts and music. Both organizations are joining with residents to celebrate music and art in the Hough community from June through August, 2016.

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