Name: CYO Premieres When Still composed by Dana Hall
Start: 2024-05-17T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Tri-C Metropolitan Campus Auditorium

CYO Premieres When Still composed by Dana Hall

Contemporary Youth Orchestra is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to changing lives through the study and performance of contemporary and new music.   With a distinct focus on new music, CYO regularly commissions innovative new works and seeks out adventurous programming opportunities.  CYO operates a full orchestra and a chamber music program, and we support students' creative and technical growth in an inspiring and supportive community.

Contemporary Youth Orchestra

Contemporary Youth Orchestra presents world premiere of Dana Hall's When Still inspired by Chris Coles' Nine Lives Project.

Tri-C Metropolitan Campus Auditorium

CYO Season 29

We are thrilled to announce the Contemporary Youth Orchestra's dynamic 29th season! Please join us for these incredible performances, showcasing the talents of young musicians from throughout the greater Cleveland area!

CYO proudly premieres Dr. Dana Hall's When Still inspired by Chris Coles's Nine Lives Project. Coles's Nine Lives honors the nine souls who lost their lives in the 2015 shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Hall's new work extends Coles's project to reflect on ten souls lost in a Buffalo, NY grocery store shooting. Both Hall and Coles invite us to come together through music to seek a more connected, more compassionate, more tolerant and more empathetic future.This commission seeks to use music as a catalyst for important and difficult dialogue, to break free of preconceived ideas of what is possible in an orchestral setting and to provide students with a safe space to improvise and experiment musically. Dr. Hall's 4-movement piece challenges us to ask questions about ongoing gun violence in communities like Buffalo, Cleveland, Charleston and Chicago. His second movement entitled Six Minutes in Buffalo directly speaks to the mass shooting that occurred on May 14, 2022 in a grocery store in Buffalo, NY that claimed 10 lives.Dr. Hall's work, like Chris Coles's Nine Lives Project, invites us all to be a voice of reason amidst violence, chaos and hate. The final movement of Dr. Hall's piece entitled Mother Emanuel: Home evokes hope that compassion, understanding, empathy, tolerance, peace and love will prevail.CYO commissions contemporary voices to speak directly to current moments in time and to transform the orchestra into a laboratory for learning for musicians and audiences alike. Our intention is that this piece will inspire critical conversations and introduce young people to the idea of music as a means to build connections between people by showing empathy, respect and understanding.It is our honor to work with Dana Hall, Chris Coles and Zaire Darden on this reimagined project for orchestra, and we are humbled to carry on the light of the nine lives lost in Charleston and the ten lives lost in Buffalo.

Six Minutes in BuffaloOn May 14, 2022, there was a mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, NY. The act of violence was racially motivated and happened while individuals were going about their daily lives. Ten people were killed. The ten souls lost were: Aaron Salter, 55; Ruth Whitfield, 86; Pearl Young, 77; Katherine "Kat" Massey, 72; Heyward Patterson, 67; Celestine Chaney, 65; Roberta Drury, 32; Margus D. Morrison, 52; Andre Mackneil, 53; Geraldine Talley, 62.Nine LivesOn June 17, 2015, there was a mass shooting at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina. The act of violence was racially motivated and happened at the end of a Bible study while individuals were peacefully praying. Nine people were killed. The nine souls lost were: Clementa C. Pinckney, 41; Cynthia Graham Hurd, 54; Susie J. Jackson, 87; Ethel Lee Lance, 70; DePayne Vontrease Middleton-Doctor, 49; Tywanza Kibwe Diop Sanders, 26; Daniel Lee Simmons Sr., 74; Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, 45; and Myra Singleton Quarles Thompson, 59.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________Notice of Filming &amp; PhotographyPlease note that CYO is filming a documentary, and the performance you are attending will be filmed, audio recorded, video recorded and photographed.By entering the event premises, you consent to interview(s), photography, audio recording, video recording and its/their release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction to be used for news, web casts, promotional purposes, telecasts, advertising, inclusion on websites, social media, or any other purpose by CYO and its affiliates and representatives. Images, photos and/or videos may be used to promote similar CYO events in the future, highlight the event and exhibit the capabilities of CYO. You release CYO, its officers and employees, and each and all persons involved from any liability connected with the taking, recording, digitizing, or publication and use of interviews, photographs, computer images, video and/or or sound recordings.By entering the event premises, you waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties in connection with any use, exhibition, streaming, web casting, televising, or other publication of these materials, regardless of the purpose or sponsoring of such use, exhibiting, broadcasting, web casting, or other publication irrespective of whether a fee for admission or sponsorship is charged. You also waive any right to inspect or approve any photo, video, or audio recording taken by CYO or the person or entity designated to do so by CYO.You have been fully informed of your consent, waiver of liability, and release before entering the event.

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