[NEohioPAL] CityMusic Cleveland presents 2 FREE concerts in November (RESCHEDULED)

[Beverly Simmons]

Dear Friends,

Originally announced for November 4th, CityMusic Cleveland's concert  
has been changed to Wednesday, November 5th (still 7:30 pm at  
Fairmount Presbyterian Church). We know everybody will be tied to  
their televisions on Tuesday, watching election returns. So we've  
rescheduled our performance.

I'm also enclosing information about CityMusic's Children's Concert,  
featuring the Simple Symphony of Benjamin Britten, and Prokofiev's  
"Peter & the Wolf" on Saturday, November 8th (3 pm, also at Fairmount  
Presbyterian Church). This is part of an expanded Education Program,  
including school concerts in Elyria and Slavic Village, and  
instrumental instruction in those two neighborhoods, as well as  
Cleveland Heights.

We'd appreciate your help in getting the word out.

As always, I would be happy to provide you with photos or any  
additional information that you might like.

Cordially,
Beverly Simmons, Marketing Director
CityMusic Cleveland
PO Box 1930
Cleveland, OH 44106
cell 216-401-2485
info at CityMusicCleveland.org
www.CityMusicCleveland.org

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PRESS RELEASE
Contact: 	Beverly Simmons, 216-283-4649 or 216-401-2485 (not for  
publication)
  	 	info at citymusiccleveland.org

CityMusic Cleveland presents 2 FREE concerts in November: for Adults &  
Children


With ever-larger audiences, CityMusic Cleveland continues to attract  
both aficionados and those new to classical music. Gramophone magazine  
raved: “[Music Director James] Gaffigan draws incisive and flexible  
playing from the orchestra, whose strings are elegant and precise,  
woodwind full of character, brasses firm and timpani pointed.” Fanfare  
magazine added, “Bravo!” The Cleveland Plain Dealer has called the  
orchestra “pure genius,” with music “superbly played” and  
CoolCleveland.com notes the orchestra’s “uncompromising ability to wed  
sonic and formal imagination with expressive depth.” In addition,  
CityMusic Music Director James Gaffigan was recognized by the League  
of American Orchestras with its 2008 Helen M. Thompson Award for  
emerging music directors.

CityMusic's Fifth Anniversary Season, 2008-09, includes many  
expansions and innovations for CityMusic Cleveland. These include 27  
orchestral concerts, a 30-week Education Program repeated in three  
communities, children’s concerts, and a concert tour to Michigan and  
Pennsylvania. The tour program is presented Tuesday, November 5, at  
7:30 pm in Fairmount Presbyterian Church (2757 Fairmount Blvd,  
Cleveland Heights). Conducted by James Gaffigan, the program features  
the phenomenal young cellist, Joshua Roman, whom the press has dubbed  
a “Classical Rock Star.” He’ll solo in the Schumann Cello Concerto in  
A minor. The program also includes Beethoven’s Symphony no. 2 and the  
Ballet Music from Mozart’s opera Idomeneo.

Since winning the principal chair in the cello section of the Seattle  
Symphony at the age of 22, Joshua Roman has become a favorite of  
Seattle music lovers, with sold-out solo and chamber performances  
throughout the city. When not performing in or in front of a Symphony  
Orchestra, Joshua is likely to be found on the stage of a club,  
performing music as varied as jazz or rock, as well as chamber music  
or a solo sonata by Kodaly or Bach. His fearless pursuit of new  
challenges has led him to expand his horizons and embark full-time on  
his growing solo classical career. His interest in and exploration of  
new music have led Joshua to work with many composers in performance  
of concerti, chamber music, and solo works, including works of his  
own. His 2008-09 season includes, among others, performances with  
CityMusic Cleveland, the Edmonton Symphony, Quad City Symphony,  
Stamford Symphony, and a return to the Seattle Symphony for the  
premiere of the David Stock Cello Concerto. Joshua's desire to  
communicate takes him beyond diverse concert venues. In the summer of  
2006 in response to his own growing awareness of the atrocities in  
Africa — specifically Rwanda — he traveled with his violin-playing  
siblings to Uganda where they played chamber music in schools, HIV/ 
Aids centers and displacement camps, bringing a message of hope  
through music.

A gifted musical communicator, James Gaffigan has been Music Director  
of CityMusic Cleveland since its second season. He is also Associate  
Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, under Michael Tilson Thomas,  
after serving for three years as assistant conductor of the Cleveland  
Orchestra. In June 2008, Maestro Gaffigan was awarded the prestigious  
Helen M. Thompson Award for Emerging Music Directors, from the League  
of American Orchestras. He commented, "As a conductor, the work I  
value most is that which allows me to introduce the relevance of  
classical music into the everyday lives of all listeners. My work with  
CityMusic Cleveland has been instrumental to this idea and I hope to  
continue to be able to excite audiences with accessible concert-going  
and adventurous programming."

On the following Saturday, November 8, at 3 pm (also in Fairmount  
Presbyterian Church), CityMusic Cleveland invites children of all ages  
and their families to a free concert featuring Sergei Prokofiev's  
Peter and the Wolf and Benjamin Britten's Simple Symphony. Also  
conducted by Maestro Gaffigan, this program features poet Mwatabu S.  
Okantah as narrator of the popular Prokofiev story.

Mwatabu Okantah holds the BA in English and African Studies from Kent  
State University (1976) and the MA in Creative Writing from the City  
College of New York (1982). Currently, he is an Assistant Professor  
and Poet in Residence in the Department of Pan-African Studies at Kent  
State University.  A former Director of the Center of Pan-African  
Culture, he has taught at Union College, The Livingston College of  
Rutgers University, Cleveland State University and Lakeland Community  
College. He has published many books of poetry, including Reconnecting  
Memories: Dreams No Longer Deferred, released in 2004 by Africa World  
Press. In addition, Baba Okantah has worked in a variety of musical  
situations, including time as Griot for the Iroko African Drum & Dance  
Society; in an ongoing collaboration with the Cavani String Quartet;  
and as leader of the Muntu Kuntu Energy Ensemble. A spoken word and  
original music CD, Guerrilla Dread: Griot Stylee, is scheduled for  
release in 2009. To date, Mr. Okantah has appeared at diverse venues  
including Merkin Concert Hall in NYC, Market Square Concert Series in  
Harrisburg, Cleveland Museum of Art’s Nia Café, Cleveland Institute of  
Music Concert Series, Cleveland’s Sanaa  and Ingenuity Festivals, the  
Juneteenth Festival at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, First Night  
Akron, Akron’s Annual African American Festival, Kent Heritage  
Festival, Detroit’s Broadside Poet’s Theatre, and a number of  
universities, including University of Ibadan (Nigeria) and Cheikh Anta  
Diop University (Senegal).

For more information, call 216-321-8273, write to info at citymusiccleveland.org 
, or visit www.CityMusicCleveland.org.

CONCERT INFORMATION: (*free childcare available; call venue for  
reservation)

Program #2
James Gaffigan, Music Director
Joshua Roman, Solo Cello
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ballet Music from "Idomeneo"
Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony #2 in D Major

	Wednesday, November 5, 2008, at 7:30 pm
	Fairmount Presbyterian Church*
	2757 Fairmount Blvd, Cleveland Heights 44118; 216-321-5800; www.fairmountchurch.org

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Children's Program
James Gaffigan, Music Director
Mwatabu S. Okantah, Narrator
Sergei Prokofief: "Peter & the Wolf"
Benjamin Britten: Simple Symphony

	Saturday, November 8, 2008, at 3 pm
	Fairmount Presbyterian Church
	2757 Fairmount Blvd, Cleveland Heights 44118; 216-321-5800; www.fairmountchurch.org


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CityMusic Cleveland is a professional chamber orchestra, founded to  
perform free concerts throughout Northeast Ohio, accompanied by art  
shows of local artists.

Our mission is to develop audiences and build communities through the  
arts by:
	¶ Presenting the finest quality performances of classical repertoire,
	¶ Eliminating the twin barriers of high ticket prices and unfamiliar  
venues,
	¶ Working with neighborhood leaders to enrich the cultural offerings  
of their     	
       communities.

In so doing, CityMusic Cleveland builds audiences for both the musical  
and visual arts organizations in Northeast Ohio and beyond.

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