Yearning to Breathe Free

A concert exploring what it means to be patriotic in a country that has not always afforded freedom to everyone

Thursday, July 1 at 8:00 pm EDT
Broadcast live on YouTube
Free and Open to All

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FEATURING WORKS BY

Margaret Bonds
I, Too, Sing America

Oliver Caplan
The New Colossus

Tom Cipullo
Frederick Douglass

Maria Thompson Corley
On Mount Nebo

James Dargan
What, to the American Slave, Is Your Fourth of July?

Marek Harris
Amerika braucht Liebe, süße Liebe

J. Rosamond Johnson
Lift Every Voice and Sing
(arr. James Dargan)

Steven Mark Kohn
The War Prayer

Shawn Okpebholo
My Country

William Grant Still
Fanfare for American Heroes

André Thomas
I Hear America Singing
I Dream a World

Gwyneth Walker
Let America Be America Again

Christopher Wicks
The Mightier Word of Peace

WITH PERFORMANCES BY
Kelley Hollis, Soprano
James Dargan, Baritone
Julia Scott Carey, Piano