Lift Ev’ry Voice: The
Musical Legacy of the Underground Railroad will take place
February 15, for two performances at 9:45 a.m. and 11:00
a.m. at the Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle Theater. The
Toledo Symphony Orchestra along with additional community
organizations will come together to explore Toledo’s
Underground Railroad history through music. Special friends
from the Lathrop House will be on hand to narrate and make
history come to life. This program features a screening of
the word-less storybook Unspoken by Henry Cole and a
sing-along of Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing. This event is sold
out.
A Preschool Storytime will
take place February 22, at 10:30 a.m. at the Sanger branch
of the Toledo Lucas County Public Library. This Preschool
Storytime will feature musical guest, members of the Toledo
Symphony Orchestra. Free and open to the public.
Registration required.
Reaching for Our Stars
will take place February 25, at 5:00 p.m. at St. Martin de
Porres Catholic Church. The Toledo Symphony Orchestra will
perform a neighborhood concert in celebration of Black
History Month. Tickets at St. Martin de Porres,
419-241-4544.
An Instrument Petting Zoo
will take place February 27, at 4:30 p.m. at the Kent branch
of the Toledo Lucas County Public Library. Children will
see, hear, and play a variety of orchestral instruments.
Members of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra and the Toledo
Symphony Youth Quartet will present music inspired by
spirituals from the 1850s to present day. Free and open to
the public.
A Conversation on Romance
and Spirituals will take place March 1, at 6:30 p.m. at the
West Toledo branch of the Toledo Lucas County Public
Library. Merwin Siu, Toledo Symphony Artistic Administrator
and Principal Second Violinist, will provide insights behind
the programming of Romance and Spirituals, the Blade Chamber
Series performance on March 11. Free and open to the public.
Romance and Spirituals
Open Rehearsal will take place March 11, at 1:15 p.m. at the
Main Library of the Toledo Lucas County Public Library.
Audience members will hear music inspired by the Underground
Railroad and experience a behind-the-scenes look at
rehearsal as finishing touches are added to the program.
Free and open to the public.
Romance and Spirituals
will take place March 11, at 7:00 p.m. at the Main Library
of the Toledo Lucas County Public Library. Small groups of
musicians will perform in a genre-defying, music without
words program, including a piece by Haitian-American
composer Daniel Bernard Roumain inspired by the story of
Rosa Parks. Tickets at toledosymphony.com.
Kathleen Battle,
Underground Railroad—A Spiritual Journey will take place
March 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle
Theater. Performed only in cities along the Underground
Railroad, Metropolitan Opera star and Ohio native Kathleen
Battle, joined by the Clarence Smith Community Chorus and
the Voices at BGSU, presents a program of stories and
spirituals inspired by the extraordinary journey to freedom
during times of slavery. Tickets at toledosymphony.com.
I Dream, presented by the
Toledo Opera, will take place April 6 & 7 at 7:30 p.m. and
April 8, at 2:00 p.m. at the Valentine Theatre. I Dream is a
modern, rhythm & blues opera recounting the final 36 hours
in the remarkable life of American icon Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. Tickets at toledoopera.org.
Classical Ellington
concludes the North Star Festival on April 20 & 21 at 8:00
p.m. at the Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle Theater. These
performances will explore the orchestral world of Duke
Ellington in his version of The Nutcracker and his own tone
poem, Harlem. The program will also include the world
premiere of Latin Jazz Suite by Alice Gomez, featuring TSO
Principal Trumpet Lauraine Carpenter, and Four Parables by
Toledo composer Paul Schoenfield, featuring pianist Natasha
Paremski. Tickets at toledosymphony.com.
“I’m very proud of the
programming the Toledo Symphony has assembled for this new
North Star Festival. It’s a honor to highlight our local
heritage and showcase more diverse music. I hope everyone
will join us in one way or another to celebrate with music,”
said Felecia Kanney, Director of Marketing for the Toledo
Symphony.
Tickets to the North Star
Festival performances are available at toledosymphony.com or
by calling the Toledo Symphony Box Office at 419-246-8000.
For more information,
please contact Felecia Kanney, Director of Marketing for the
Toledo Symphony at
fkanney@toledosymphony.com.
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