The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra & The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus: Brahms & Billy The Kid

The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra & The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus: Brahms & Billy The Kid at Severance Music Center

The future of Cleveland's music scene doesn't happen someday. It happens when young musicians take the stage at Severance and tackle Copland, Brahms, and Vaughan Williams with everything they've got. That's a concert worth being proud to attend.

Some concerts feel like a preview of the future. COYO & COYC in Concert: Brahms & Billy the Kid feels like that, with the Cleveland Orchestra’s young players stepping into a program that asks for sweep, discipline, and real emotional range.

Copland’s Suite from Billy the Kid brings open-air motion and frontier character. Brahms’s Nänie turns inward, with choral writing that can feel both tender and grave. Then Vaughan Williams’s Toward the Unknown Region pushes outward again, giving the Youth Chorus a chance to shape music that looks ahead rather than back. It’s a strong, specific combination, and that matters: this isn’t a generic student showcase, but a program built around contrast and ambition.

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