[NEohioPAL] 1969 - A Music Theatre Event!!

[Kyra Burton]

The Cleveland Museum of Art's
VIVA! & Gala Around Town Presents...

Alarm Will Sound

Saturday, March 21, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Murch Auditorium

"The future of classical music-or let's hope so."
-Anthony Tommasini, New York Times
The Weathermen, Woodstock, Stonewall, Vietnam, Nixon: 1969 was a year in which it seemed that society itself could be overturned, and perhaps needed to be. And this revolutionary spirit infused the music of the time. While senior composers-Stravinsky, Copland, Shostakovich-undertook their final works, John Lennon used his Montreal bed-in to demand world peace, Jimi Hendrix destroyed a violin on the stage of Queen Elizabeth Hall, Steve Reich and Philip Glass seemed to reboot Western music at the Whitney Museum, Cornelius Cardew invited anyone to make music with his Scratch Orchestra, and Leonard Bernstein's Mass seemed to bring the threat of violent revolution directly to God.
Alarm Will Sound's 1969 is a music-theater event that tells the stories of these artists and their relation to the historical events of the time. With the contagious we-can-remake-the-world optimism of 1969 now a distant memory, this production offers a relevant evening of entertainment from the group that Alex Ross of the New Yorker has called "incontestably a sensational force." $34, CMA members $32.

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Kyra Burton
Production Manager
Performing Arts, Music & Film
The Cleveland Museum of Art
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