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