A spokesperson says---
“...These artists share a commitment to amplifying queer voices and stories, exploring Black and LGBTQ experiences through song. Arranged in pillars representing isolation, damnation, remembrance, and finally, revolution, and featuring music ranging from spirituals to songs by Copland, Ricky Ian Gordon, Schubert, Gershwin, Nina Simone and others, the concert takes listeners on a formidable journey, leaving them at their destination: hope. Arranged in pillars representing isolation, damnation, remembrance, and finally, revolution, and featuring music ranging from spirituals to songs by Copland, Ricky Ian Gordon, Schubert, Gershwin, Nina Simone and others, the concert takes listeners on a formidable journey, leaving them at their destination: hope..."
Program
OUR PEOPLE
Shut Me Out (Isolation)
Traditional Spiritual “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”
Aaron Copland Selections from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
Nature! The Gentlest Mother
Why do They Shut Me Out of Heaven?
William Bolcom “George,” from Cabaret Songs
Franz Schubert “Memnon,” D. 541
Margaret Bonds “Minstrel Man,” from Three Dream Portraits
“Lord, I Just Can’t Keep From Cryin,” from Five Creek-Freedman Spirituals
Going Up in Smoke (Damnation)
David Krakauer “The ‘80s Miracle Diet” from The AIDS Quilt Songbook
Ricky Ian Gordon “I Never Knew” from The AIDS Quilt Songbook
Abel Meeropol (Lewis Allan) “Strange Fruit” (arr. P. Campos)
Requiem (Remembrance)
George Gershwin “The Man I Love” (arr. E. Wild)
John Musto “Litany,” from Shadow of the Blues
Henry Purcell “Dido’s Lament,” from Dido and Aeneas
So Loud, So Proud (Revolution)
Gordon “My People,” from Genius Child
Sergei Rachmaninoff “Spring Waters,” Op. 14, No. 11
Nina Simone “Backlash Blues” (arr. P. Campos)
Zach Redler “Brown”
