Sing Out Strong: Voting As Freedom
Company: Milton Community Concerts
On Sunday, September 15 at 3pm Milton Community Concerts will be embarking on its tenth anniversary season with a timely concert event called "Sing Out Strong: Voting As Freedom". This concert is a collaboration between MCC and White Snake Projects. Performers include singers Aurora Martin and Chihiro Asano, pianist Jamie Lorusso, and guest speaker/host Cerise Lim Jacobs, founder of WSP. The concert will take place at First Parish of Milton, 535 Canton Avenue.
White Snake Projects has developed this program as a part of a multi-year community-based project called "Sing Out Strong: Emancipated Voices". For this concert composers from around the country have set texts from students, immigrants, and other members of the local Boston community to music. These texts were written in response to the question: "What do voting and freedom mean to you?". Composers young and old submitted their musical responses to these texts in a Call for Entries in 2023. Eleven composers were chosen to set these texts to music for this concert, ranging from young emerging composers to established award-winning ones, and representing various socio-economic, age, gender, and racial backgrounds. These composers collaborated with the writers, four of whom are students at Boston International Newcomers Academy, a public high school devoted to recently arrived immigrants. The result is a program of songs featuring many different musical styles that entertain, outrage,and educate at a time when the issue of voting is a critical one.
Admission for this concert is PAY AS YOU CAN, with a suggested donation of $25 general/$15 senior/Free for 18 and under (tickets available at the door only). The venue is accessible, and free parking is plentiful.
White Snake Projects has developed this program as a part of a multi-year community-based project called "Sing Out Strong: Emancipated Voices". For this concert composers from around the country have set texts from students, immigrants, and other members of the local Boston community to music. These texts were written in response to the question: "What do voting and freedom mean to you?". Composers young and old submitted their musical responses to these texts in a Call for Entries in 2023. Eleven composers were chosen to set these texts to music for this concert, ranging from young emerging composers to established award-winning ones, and representing various socio-economic, age, gender, and racial backgrounds. These composers collaborated with the writers, four of whom are students at Boston International Newcomers Academy, a public high school devoted to recently arrived immigrants. The result is a program of songs featuring many different musical styles that entertain, outrage,and educate at a time when the issue of voting is a critical one.
Admission for this concert is PAY AS YOU CAN, with a suggested donation of $25 general/$15 senior/Free for 18 and under (tickets available at the door only). The venue is accessible, and free parking is plentiful.
For more information visit
https://www.miltoncommunityconcerts.com/singoutstrong, 3:00 pm
Milton Community Concerts
535 Canton Avenue
Milton, MA 02186
United States
Type:
Recital & Concert