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BEACHWOOD, OH – October 22, 2026 – The Suburban Symphony Orchestra (SSO) announces its second concert of the season: “Tchaikovsky Symphony 4: Life Triumphs, Life Flows.” The program is conducted by Guest Conductor Lorenzo Lopez.   The concert will be held on Sunday, November 8, 2026, at 3:30 p.m. at Beachwood High School, 25100 Fairmount Blvd, Beachwood, OH. Admission is free. Pre-concert activities open at 3pm in the lobby (themed games to win prizes). The event includes a food drive for the Cleveland Food Bank, Patrons who bring non-perishable food item will be entered into a raffle for pies from Patterson Fruit Farm.

Details can be found at https://suburbansymphony.org/tchaikovsky4

 A Guest Conductor and a Dramatic Fate-Themed Program

The program continues a season titled “Life Finds a Way”, built around themes of life, resiliency, and nature. The music invokes the triumph of the human spirit over darkness and despair, and the power of defying fate to choose one’s own destiny. The program opens with Smetana’s The Moldau, as a river carves its own path through Bohemia, followed by Liszt’s Les Preludes, a tone poem about the human journey through the storms of fate to the triumph of choosing one’s own destiny. The concert is headlined by Tchaikovsky’s powerful Fourth Symphony, written when Tchaikovsky was at his darkest, lowest point. The piece evolves from the darkness of an unrelenting foreboding fate to ultimately triumphing over it by finding joy from the goodness of other people.

Cleveland native Lorenzo Lopez steps onto the podium to guest conduct this program. Mr. Lopez works frequently with City Music Chamber Orchestra, and has performed with a variety of other ensembles in Cleveland, including the Cleveland Ballet. Lopez has also worked with top orchestras around the world, including Orchestre Métropolitain, the Chamber Orchestra of New York, and the Romanian Chamber Orchestra. 

Food Drive and Pre-Concert Activities

As part of its ongoing commitment to engaging with its community, SSO is collecting food donations for the Cleveland Food Bank. Anyone bringing a non-perishable food item will be entered into a raffle to win one of three pies from Patterson Fruit Farm.

The public is invited to arrive early to enter the Hall of Fate and try their hand at a variety of “Fate” – themed lobby games to win prizes such as Mitchell’s Scoop Certificates.

About the Suburban Symphony Orchestra

The Suburban Symphony Orchestra, currently led by Artistic & Music Director Domenico Boyagian, is an 80-member, Beachwood-based orchestra that has provided high-quality, free classical music to the community for over 70 years. The orchestra performs well-known masterworks and hidden gems and has strong ties to the community, frequently collaborating with renowned soloists, local choral and visual arts groups, and hosting a student concerto competition. Recent highlights include Beethoven’s Ninth at Severance Hall, a gospel collaboration with the Cleveland Chorale, and a performance of film music at Cain Park. Earlier this season, SSO partnered with the Cleveland Photographic Society for its fourth multi-media collaboration since 2019 and its first collaboration with photographers; previous participants in SSO’s Visual Arts Collaboration program included student artists from Canterbury Elementary School, Rainey Institute, and St. Dominic School in Shaker Heights.

Upcoming events in SSO’s 26-27 season titled “Life Finds a Way” explore music of hope, resilience and nature: Ugly Sweater Extravaganza (Dec 12), Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 (Feb 7), Mozart Requiem with West Shore Chorale (Mar 21, at Maltz Performing Arts Center), The Composer Next Door: A Public Collaboration Workshop (Apr 4) and Dvorak Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” featuring Young Soloist Competition Winners (May 16). More information can be found at: https://suburbansymphony.org

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