Drops of Color

Cleveland-based singer/songwriter Luca Mundaca will join Contemporary Youth Orchestra (CYO) tonight at 7 at Cuyahoga Community College’s Metropolitan campus for Drops of Color, a night of music featuring renditions of her songs as well as music from Brazil’s Antônio Carlos Jobim. Jobim was a Brazilian composer, songwriter and singer whose work celebrates Brazil and "a passion for the natural world," as it's put in a press release. Considered by many to be the "father of bossa nova,” he merged Brazilian music with jazz to create a new sound that achieved great popularity in the 1960s. CYO will perform four of his works written specifically for orchestra. The rarely presented compositions come from the Latin Grammy-winning album Symphonic Jobim. Arranger, producer, conductor and orchestrator Rob Moose and Morron will work with the students on special musical arrangements of Mundaca’s songs. The concert will also be livestreamed to reach Luca's international audience.