Fri 11/18 @ 7-9PM
CityMusic Cleveland is a chamber orchestra that performs in a variety of venues across northeast Ohio in a variety of configurations.
For its upcoming concert at the Praxis Fiber Workshop Gallery, it’s stripping down to a quartet to perform an adventurous program of music, featuring only one piece likely to be familiar to listeners, Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet in F major.
The program also includes the world premiere of 75-year-old African-American cellist/composer Akua Dixon’s We the People, commissioned by CityMusic as part of its theme for last season “Justice, Equality, Freedom.” She says it’s inspired by the Preamble to the Constitution and “the ongoing fight for equity in America today,” an uneasy blending of classical techniques with African rhythms “to provoke challenging emotions as the audience engages with this musical depiction of Black America’s ongoing struggle for equality.”
The concert opens with two pieces by living composers: Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s Psalom and Chickasaw classical composer/pianist Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate’s Pisachi (Reveal): Six Epitomes for String Quartet.
Musicians include violinists Susan Britton and Eunho Kim, violist Yael Senamaud-Cohen and cellist Trevor Kazarian. Get more information here.
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