Sat 10/5 @ 7:30PM
Cleveland’s Bluewater Orchestra chamber ensemble returns to launch its 2024-25 season with a diverse concert program called “Threads of Time, Struggle and Hope.”
A performance (reading?) of the 1941 poem “I Dream a World,” by poet Langston Hughes, who spent his high school years in Cleveland, opens the evening, followed by Adolphus Hailstork’s setting of the African-American spiritual “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” and Roldo Dilworth’s “Freedom’s Plow,” which combines another spiritual with another Hughes poem. Finally, the program will conclude with Beethoven’s 1808 Symphony No. 5, one of the most widely familiar pieces in the classical repertoire.
Joining the orchestra are special guests Michigan-based trumpeter Neil Mueller (formerly principal trumpet with BlueWater Orchestrs) and the Cleveland School of the Arts R. Nathaniel Dett Concert Choir and Select Strings. The concert takes place at the Church of the Covenant in University Circle. Go here for tickets.
Cleveland, OH 44106