Wake Up! Wake Up! A Choral Tapestry Honoring Our Earth

Mon Jun 21 2021 at 06:30 pm to 07:45 pm

Richard Rodgers Amphitheater | New York

Earth Requiem
Publisher/HostEarth Requiem
Wake Up! Wake Up! A Choral Tapestry Honoring Our Earth
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Free distanced outdoor concert with 18-voice choir and preview of Earth Requiem. Readings by Dorceta E. Taylor. Presented on Make Music Day.
About this Event

“Wake Up! Wake Up! A Choral Tapestry Honoring Our Earth” is a a free outdoor concert, with an 18-voice professional choir directed by Malcolm J. Merriweather The program features choral settings of music that anticipates and was inspired by the Environmental Justice movement, with a musical message transcending class, race, religious, and political boundaries: that all of creation is worth protecting. The program is interspersed with narration by the preeminent Environmental Justice scholar and author Dorceta E. Taylor, reading selections from her books, in the role of a modern prophet giving a sermon on the damage wrought by environmental racism.

The program will feature a preview of choral excerpts of music composed by the critically acclaimed British composer Errollyn Wallen and five time Emmy-winning composer Jeff Beal, with a libretto by Diana Wege, from Earth Requiem (2020), a newly commissioned four-movement symphony that is one part of a multidisciplinary art project by the artist Diana Wege. The project, also titled Earth Requiem, incorporates music, literature, and painting. Entrance is free to the public on a first come, first served basis. More information may be found by visiting earthrequiem.org, or contacting [email protected].

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Richard Rodgers Amphitheater, 18 Mount Morris Park West, New York, United States

Tickets

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