Sun 3/10 @ 1PM
In 2019, Oklahoma Chickasaw composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate (who earned his masters in piano performance and composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music) wrote Moonstrike in honor of the 50thanniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. In it, a string quartet and a narrator navigate three Native American legends with traditional songs, opening and losing with an arrangement of a Calusa Corn Dance, a piece performed by southeastern tribes at harvest moon when the corn harvest begins. (Tate’s own middle name refers to a traditional corncrib facility).
Is it a coincidence that City Music Cleveland is performing the piece in non-traditional (for concerts) space? We doubt it. Tate will be the narrator and violinists Kiarra Saito-Beckman and Minchae Kim, violist Colin Henley and cellist Trevor Kazarian will be the musicians when City Music performs it on Sunday March 10 at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
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