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Kent State’s Percussion Ensemble opens the concert's second half with the colorful and warm “Citadel of the Stars.” Next is the Kent State New Music Ensemble’s performance of faculty composer Adam Roberts’ new work “Sometime There Is a Day.” Then, guest clarinetist David Shifrin-who came to Kent State as a student of the Kent Blossom Music Festival in summer 1970-will join the Kent State University Orchestra to perform Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto. Concluding the first half of the concert is African Ensemble and Steel Band with Afrobeats dance team Asé Xpressions performing Davido’s “FEM.” Pianists Alena Miskinis and Will Baughman then perform Frederic Rzewski’s “Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues,” featuring eight student dancers choreographed by Dance Department faculty member Jeffrey Marc Rockland. Singers from Kent State Opera Theatre will next perform selections from “Blind Injustice,” a contemporary work by Scott Davenport Richards and David Cote based on the stories of those who were wrongfully convicted and later exonerated by the Ohio Innocence Project. Kent State’s Thai Ensemble then performs the Buddhist-teaching-inspired Khmen Phothisat. It will also include guest spoken word artist Orlando Watson. Next is the world premiere of Bobby Selvaggio’s “I Have a Dream,” a work inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous speech, for jazz ensemble and strings. The concert begins with David Gillingham’s “With Heart and Voice,” featuring the Kent State Wind Ensemble, Symphony Band and Kent State Youth Winds.
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I hope that through art, we can gather as a community to continue to learn and face them together.” “Today, we face many of the same challenges that led to May 4. “I’m thrilled we’re able to perform at Severance Music Center, presenting such a powerful and important concert,” said Kent McWilliams, director and professor of the School of Music. The poems will be selected from the Wick Poetry Center’s collection commemorating the 50th anniversary of the tragedy. Interspersed throughout the concert will be poetry, read by guest speakers like Roseann “Chic” Canfora-an eyewitness to the events of May 4 and a current faculty member in Kent State’s School of Media and Journalism. Each work explores social justice, civil rights and the complex emotions felt before, during and after tragedy. Titled “Stories of Peace, Protest and Reflection,” the concert is a commemoration of the tragic Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970. It will also feature collaborations with the School of Theatre and Dance and the Wick Poetry Center. featuring nearly 300 students from across the university performing a rich lineup of genres and styles from classical and jazz to gospel and world music. The Kent State University School of Music returns to Severance Music Center on May 2 at 7 p.m. Scheuer was killed in the shooting and Canfora, who died in 202, was wounded. People placed notes and candles on the May 4 memorial markers for Sandra Scheuer and Alan Canfora.