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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">LCCC Presents Civic Orchestra Concert<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Lorain County Community College Arts and Humanities division’s Civic Orchestra will hold a performance at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22 in the Stocker Arts Center Hoke
Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Under the direction of Robert Beckstrom, the orchestra will perform two new works by Cleveland area composers, as well as a classic favorite. The performance begins with
The Watchers, by William Rayer, who composed the piece in conjunction with a novel (same title) he authored. His music conveys the themes of good vs. evil, greed vs. benevolence, and triumph out of conflict.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The second premiere piece is Due Concertante 2019 for two B-flat clarinets and orchestra, by Daniel Shell. His evocative music has a Latin influence and explores unusual
orchestral sounds woven together by the two soloists. Shell is the orchestra's principal bassist, as well as an adjunct instructor in the LCCC Cisco Network Academy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The concert also includes the Swan Lake Suite by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For tickets, call the Stocker Arts Center Box Office at (440) 366-4040. General admission is $9 for adults. Tickets for LCCC students, staff, children and seniors 65+ tickets
are $8. Tickets are $7 for groups of 15 or more. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For more information, contact the division of Arts and Humanities at (440) 366-4013 or visit
</span><a href="http://www.lorainccc.edu/stocker/civic-orchestra"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">www.lorainccc.edu/stocker/civic-orchestra</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Stocker Arts Center is on the campus of
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Lorain County Community College, 1005 N. Abbe Road, Elyria, Ohio. Parking on campus is free.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">LCCC Stocker Arts Center Hosts “Ain’t I A Woman!”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Lorain County Community College’s Social Sciences and Human Services division will present “Ain’t I A Woman!” in honor of Women’s History Month and Black History Month at
7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4 at Stocker Arts Center as part of the Random Acts Series in the Cirigliano Studio Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The chamber music theatre work produced by The Core Ensemble brings to life four outstanding African American women: former slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth, novelist
and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, folk artist Clementine Hunter, and civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. Dramatic interpretations are accompanied by a jazz trio, drawing upon music ranging from rural to urban, from Antebellum Spirituals to the Jazz
Age, from folk music to compositions for the concert stage including works by Diane Monroe. An after-talk with the ensemble follows the performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A craft session will be held before the show from 6-7 p.m. in the Studio Theatre lobby led by Gail Crum, Jill Milenski and Gayle Pritchard, artists are from the "Women in
Conversation" art exhibit that will be on display in the Beth K. Stocker Art Gallery from February 28 through April 2.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Call the Stocker Box Office at (440) 366-4040 to order tickets for this event.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tickets are $8 or $5 for students.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The box office is open from noon to 6 p.m. Monday-Friday and 90 minutes prior
to ticketed events. Guests may also purchase tickets online at <a href="http://www.stockerartscenter.com">
www.stockerartscenter.com</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Stocker Arts Center is located on the campus of Lorain County Community College at 1005 North Abbe Road, Elyria, Ohio. Parking on the campus is free. Follow Stocker Arts
Center on Facebook and @StockerArts on Twitter and Instagram. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">LCCC Hosts Civic Concert Band<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Lorain County Community College’s Civic Concert Band will hold a "Music From Your Hymnal” concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 1 at the Stocker Arts Center in the Hoke Theatre.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The performance features familiar hymns such as God of our Fathers, Lead on, O King Eternal, My Shepherd Will Supply My Need, Battle Hymn of the Republic, How Firm a Foundation,
Eternal Father, Strong to Save and Amazing Grace. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The concert is directed by Mark Wainwright. Admission is free.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For more information, contact the division of Arts and Humanities at (440) 366-4013 or visit
</span><a href="http://www.lorainccc.edu/stocker/civic-orchestra"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">www.lorainccc.edu/stocker/civic-orchestra</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Stocker Arts Center is on the campus of
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Lorain County Community College, 1005 N. Abbe Road, Elyria, Ohio. Parking on campus is free.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Allison Jack<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Writer & Project Coordinator | Marketing & Communications <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Lorain County Community College<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(440) 366-7082<o:p></o:p></p>
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