Earthsongs: RISE

The final concert of our 2023-24 season explores issues surrounding the LGBTQIA2S+ community through music and movement. The program will illustrate how allies can make the world better by standing together in hope and love. Repertoire will feature music by Stephen Sondheim, Freddie Mercury, and so many other extraordinary queer composers.


Saturday, June 22nd
5 PM

Samper Recital Hall at Cabrillo College
6500 Soquel Drive
Aptos, CA

Sunday, June 23rd
5 PM

Mission Santa Clara de Asís
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA

General Admission $30 • Senior Citizens $25 • Students $10


PROGRAM

And So I Go On
—Jake Runestad

Bagels and Biscuits
—Theodore Lucas

Elevation
[World Premiere]
2024 Rachel Moore Choral
Composition Contest Winner

—Caden Marshall

Leaf & Tree
—Daniel Hughes

Meet Me Here
from Considering Matthew Shepard
—Craig Hella Johnson

No One Is Alone
from Into the Woods
—Stephen Sondheim

Nyon Nyon
—Jake Runestad

O Waly, Waly
—arr. Benjamin Britten
adapt. Daniel Hughes

Rise
—Edward J. Montilla, Korey Richmond, Andrew Evan Thielk,
Sam Hollander, Darren Criss, Theo Katzman
arr. Jennifer McMillan

The Times, They Are A-Changin’
[World Premiere]
—Bob Dylan
arr. Daniel Hughes

They Are Mother
—Jennifer Lucy Cook

Turn the World Around
—Harry Belafonte and Robert Freedman
arr. Larry Farrow

Yemaya
traditional Afro-Caribbean folk hymn
arr. Diana Saez

Yemaya Assesu
traditional Afro-Caribbean folk hymn
arr. Judy A. Rose