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A Gift To Be Free

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  • When May 31, 4 – 5:30 pm
  • Where Broadway Presbyterian Church
    Broadway at 114th Street, New York, NY
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  • Hosted by New Amsterdam Singers
  • Cost $30 – $35

A musical reflection on what freedom means today

The centerpiece of this concert is Caroline Shaw’s To The Hands, a work that takes the text of Emma Lazarus’ poem The New Colossus and intermingles it with the chorale Ad Manus from Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri in poignant ways. Filling out the program are works by six other acclaimed contemporary composers, including Jake Runestad’s The Peace of Wild Things, David Lang’s If I Am Silent, and Karen Siegel’s To Be Free, an adaptation of the Shaker/Copland tune Simple Gifts.

To the Hands Caroline Shaw
To Be Free Karen Siegel
American Dream Jocelyn Hagen
The Peace of Wild Things Jake Runestad
Sometimes We Talk Past Each Other Saunder Choi
if i am silent David Lang
I Shall Not Live in Vain Thomas LaVoy
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