Cleveland Winds presents Amerikahn Graffiti by Katahj Copley

Name: Cleveland Winds presents Amerikahn Graffiti by Katahj Copley
Start: 2026-03-01T15:00:00-05:00
Location: Cleveland State School of Music

Schedule

Sun, 01 Mar, 2026 at 03:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Cleveland State School of Music | Cleveland, OH

Please consider attending our concert on March 1st either in-person or virtually. We are performing a brand-new work entitled “Amerikahn Graffiti” by Katahj Copley.
Here is a snippet of the composer’s notes:
Amerykahn Graffiti is an homage to that gallery. It is the canvas. It is a sonic offering.
A reimagining of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, painted in sound and soul, it is a
journey through the Black experience—our joy, our wounds, our beauty, our rage. Each
movement is a mural. Each sound, a heartbeat. Each note, a stitch in a story quilt.
It moves through the sounds once called “noise”
—hip-hop, gospel, funk, jazz and other black
music—sounds born in basements, communities and backstreets, now cornerstones in music
creation. Like graffiti, these sounds were ridiculed, erased, feared. But they endured. They
transformed. They became the soundtrack of the human soul.
This isn’t background music.
It’s a living, breathing, unapologetic portrait of a people who are as bold and colorful as any art.
This is a tribute.
This is a love letter.
This is a cry.
This is a testimony
This is Amerykahn Graffiti