Amasa Stone Chapel
Free and open to the public
6:15 PM | In Conversation: Cecilia McDowall with Charles Edward McGuire, PhD, Oberlin College and Conservatory
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Cecilia McDowall
Renowned and award-winning British composer Cecilia McDowall will visit Cleveland, OH and join the Cleveland Chamber Choir, Case Western Reserve University Concert Choir, and Youngstown State University Dana Chorale for a series of master classes and rehearsals, which will culminate in Cecilia and Her World: Music of Cecilia McDowall and Britten, Tallis and Stravinsky, with the first of two performances on Saturday, February 26, 2022. A second performance with the Kent State University Chorale and Cleveland State University Chorale will take place on Sunday, Feb. 27.
Central to these concerts celebrating her choral works and inspirations will be the world premiere of On the Air (Dear Vaccine) commissioned by the Cleveland Chamber Choir. For its text, McDowall chose lines from hundreds of entries in the Dear Vaccine—A Global Vaccine Poem, a worldwide community poetry project giving voice to express hope and healing. The programs will also include music by Britten, Stravinsky, and Tallis; composers she considers influential to her own style. McDowall won the British Composer Award for Choral Music in 2014 and, more recently, the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Works Collection in 2021. Her works are performed worldwide.
Performing Ensembles
Scott MacPherson, Artistic Director & Director of Choral Studies, Kent State
Dr. Christopher Clark, Director of Choirs, CWRU
Brian Bailey, Director of Choirs, CSU
Hae-Jong Lee, Director of Dana Chorale, YSU
This concert is generously supported by grants from the Ohio Arts Council, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, and the Tri-M Foundation; and presented in partnership with CWRU Department of Music and Cleveland State School of Music.
Preferred Parking
- Visitor Information Center (CWRU) Parking Lot ($10 cash or credit)
- Parking Lot 1B ($10 cash or credit)
Other parking options:
- Meters along Bellflower Road, East Blvd, and Euclid Avenue
- Paid parking in the Ford Drive garage or Campus Center (Severance Hall) garage
- CWRU Parking Locations
- University Circle parking lots
- Public Transportation
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