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1001 Voices: Anthem for a new America
Frank London and Judith Sloan’s 1001 Voices: Anthem for a new America will be performed on Sunday December 15 at the Kupferberg Center for the Arts as part of the Queens Choral Society’s Winger Concert.
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A concert designed to inspire peace and unity in challenging times. Haydn’s Nelson Mass, written during a period of strife in Europe, will be followed by Vaughan Williams’s Dona Nobis Pacem, a heartfelt plea for peace that masterfully combines words from the Latin Mass with poetry by Walt Whitman. The concert will conclude with the final anthem from 1001 Voices: A Symphony for a New America, a project of earsay (composer Frank London/ librettist Judith Sloan) which reimagines Emma Lazarus’s famous poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty as an alternative national anthem.
QCCS will be joined by 200+ high school and middle school singers from across the area, offering a vision of harmony and hope for the future.
The video excerpt below is from a 2017 performance which included the animations and projections by Warren Lehrer.
New York State Council on the Arts Support for Artist Grants
EarSay artists Judith Sloan and Warren Lehrer received New York State Council on the Arts Grants through a partnership with City Lore. Sloan for Imperfect Allies, Lehrer for Letter Box
Andy Tierstein received a Support for Artist Grant through EarSay for a new composition.
This is Not a Drill – Coming in 2025
Judith Sloan and Andrew Griffin Artist Commissioning Grants from NYSCA
(New York State Council on the Arts)
Coming in 2025: A new project of music and theatre focused on Climate Crisis called This Is Not A Drill. We are interviewing people not only about the science but on how they feel about climate issues, and what they are doing. What kind of actions are you taking? We have been interviewing people of many ages, races and cultural backgrounds and from various parts of the world. If you are interesting in being interviewed please email us judith at earsay.org