Cleveland Heights High Concert

The Cleveland Heights High Instrumental Music Department will present its inaugural concert of the 2013-2014 school year on Friday, November 22 at 7:30 PM in the Cleveland Heights High Dina Rees Evans Performing Arts Center.  The performance features the Heights High Symphony, Concert Orchestra, and Heights High Symphonic Winds.  In addition, several chamber and ensemble groups will perform in the Social Room prior to the concert (6:30 to 7:00) and Jazz Ensemble will perform at a post-concert reception. Tickets will be available at the door the day of the show.
    The evening features Instrumental Music Director Daniel Heim conducting the Cleveland Heights High Symphony in the first movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 in C Major.  The Symphony will also perform selections from Sergei Prokofiev's “Romeo and Juliet”, as well as pieces from Heights High’s 2013 musical “Hello Dolly ”
    Symphonic Winds will perform G. H. Huffine’s “Basses on a Rampage,” Gordon Jacob’s “Suite in B Flat” and Robert Sheldon’s “Resurgences”  under the direction of Instrumental Music Director Brett Baker.
    The evening will open with Concert Orchestra performing Gregg A. Porter’s “Dorchester Street Songs,” Susan H. Day’s “Bat ‘N Bones,” and Thom Sharp’s “Mambo Amable for String Orchestra and Latin Percussion” with Mr. Heim conducting.
    After the concert, Mr. Baker and the Jazz Ensemble entertain guests during a reception in the Social Room.
    Cleveland Heights High’s instrumental music program is considered one of the best.  Founded in the 1920s, the music program has enjoyed extraordinary music directors and a supportive community and school board. The orchestra has been awarded “superior” ratings, and every year several Heights High students have been honored to join Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, Contemporary Youth Orchestra, Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony, the Camarata emsemble, and other performance groups.