Tue 4/22 @ 7:30PM
The city of Akron is revving up for its bicentennial celebration with a ton of events happening all day. (Find them here.)
This week, the region’s oldest music presenting organization, the nonprofit Tuesday Musical Association, founded in 1887, joins in the celebration with the world premiere of a new piece commissioned from noted California-based composer/conductor/educator Peter Boyer, called Festival Fanfare (For Akron’s Bicentennial).
It will open Tuesday Musicals Akron Bicentennial Concert with the brass and percussion sections of The Cleveland Orchestra, led by the orchestra’s principal trumpet Michael Sachs. The piece will be recorded for open-access use at Akron civic events. The Cleveland Orchestra members will also perform Modest Moussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, early 20th-century Australian-American composer Percy Grainger’s Lincolnshire Posy, and other selections.
The concert takes place at E.J. Thomas Hall. Get tickets here.