The Score | CSO Looks Around

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra estimates that 7,500 people attended its free “CSO Look Around” community music event on August 3, curated by singer/songwriter Shara Nova, filmmaker/director Mark deChiazza, performance poet Siri Imani, and composer/performer Nathan Thatcher. The event spanned two city parks and featured hundreds of local artists and arts groups playing simultaneously in different parts of the parks, flashmob style. Participants ranged from the May Festival Chorus to African heritage drummers Bi-Okoto, the Cincinnati Korean American Chorale, rapper Napolean Maddox, and the Greater Cincinnati Native American Coalition. In photo: a procession led from 13th Street to Washington Park, where multiple ensembles joined for a performance with the CSO.