Uniting Voices Chicago will participate in a workshop and performance as part of the Festival Coral Infantil y Juvenil at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México on Saturday, June 15, at 6 pm.
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Performance, Festival: 3er. Festival Coral Infantil y Juvenil Ciclo de Iniciación Musical de la Facultad de Música UNAM
Saturday, June 14, 6pm
Xochipilli Room of the Faculty of Music of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Conductors
Josephine Lee, President, Uniting Voices
Judy Hanson, Senior Director, Uniting Voices
About Uniting Voices
Founded in 1956 at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, Uniting Voices Chicago (formerly Chicago Children’s Choir) empowers and unites youth from diverse backgrounds to find their voice and celebrate their common humanity through the power of music. As a leading non-profit organization, we serve thousands of youth ages 6-18 from every zip code of Chicago through transformative and accessible music education programs and performance opportunities.
Voice of Chicago will be performing selections from:
Original Music
United
W. Mitchell Owens III, Uniting Voices Alum & Composer in Residence; Choreography by Judy Hanson & Voice of Chicago 2022-2023 Groove Members
We All Live Here
W. Mitchell Owens III; Movement by Judy Hanson
We Are
W. Mitchell Owens III
Believe in Love
W. Mitchell Owens III
Classical/Standard Choral
Locus Iste (Gradual)
Anton Bruckner
O Fortuna (from Carmina Burana)
Carl Orff
Sanctus (Requiem, Op. 9, IV)
Maurice Duruflé
Set Me As a Seal (from a new Creation)
René Clausen
Magnificat (First Movement)
Johannn Sebastian Bach
World Music
Vela Vela
South African Xhosa Song
Asimbonanga/uMandela
Johnny Clegg (Zulu language); as performed by the Soweto Gospel Choir/Xhosa South African anti-apartheid song; taught by Mollie Stone
La Cumbia del Mole
Lila Downs & Paul Cohen; arr. Julio Morales; Choreography by Cecilio Garcia
Madre, la de los primores
Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695)
Una Sangre
Lila Downs, Paul Cohen & Celso Duarte; arr. Julio Morales
En mi Viejo San Juan
Noel Estrada; arr. Daniel Wallenberg
Arirang
Korean folk song; arr. Josephine Lee & SKIM
Gospel and Spirituals
Eyes on de Prize
Lyrics by Alice Wine and Freedom Riders of the American Civil Rights Movement; arr. Lonnie Norwood, Jr.
I Need You to Survive
David Frazier; arr. Rollo Dilworth & John Goodwin
There is Room for All
W. Mitchell Owens III
Revelation 19
Jeffrey LaValley; arr. Lonnie Norwood, Jr.
Popular Music
People Get Ready
Curtis Mayfield; arr. W. Mitchell Owens III
Found/Tonight
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Benj Pasek, & Justin Paul; arr. W. Mitchell Owens III
Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen, arr. W. Mitchell Owens III
What Was I Made For
Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell; arr. Josephine Lee
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Paul Simon; arr. Kirby Shaw
A Coco Celebration!
Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez/Camilo Lara/Gael Garcia Bernal & Anthony Gonzalez; arr. W. Mitchell Owens III; Choreography by Sasha Bravo & Judy Hanson
“The Best” Medley
Music by U2, words by Bono/Jonny Coffer, Beyoncé, Carla Marie Williams, Dean McIntosh (Arrow Benjamin), Kendrick Lamar, Frank Tirado, Alan Lomax and John Lomax, Sr./Taylor Swift/Mike Chapman & Holly Knight/Michael Jackson & Lionel Richie; arr. W. Mitchell Owens III; Choreography by Judy Hanson & Farlanda Buchannon
Funk Medley
George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell/Prince/George Clinton, Walter Morrison, Garry Shider/Lonnie Simmons, Rudy Taylor, Charlie Wilson/Robert Earl Bell, Ronald Nathan Bell, Donald Boyce, George Melvin Brown, Robert Spike Mickens, Claydes Charles Smith, Clifford Adams, Dennis Thomas/Lakeside/Ronald Nathan Bell, Claydes Charles Smith, George Melvin Brown, James "J.T." Taylor, Robert Spike Mickens, Robert Earl Bell, Eumir Deodato/Norman Whitfield/Jerome Brailey, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins/James Brown; arr. W. Mitchell Owens III; Choreography by Farlanda Buchannon
Voice of Chicago Performers
Amir Anderson
Ella Anello
Lexi Antoine
Ryan Antoine
Sofia Bondurant
Elisabeth Cami
Rishi Chandra
Isis Clark
Chloe Combs
Christopher Copeland
Michael Coppola
Stella Corotis
Jamion Cotten
Jack DeKoker
Annie DeMarea
Tobin Ferrall
Monique Frauenheim
Victoria Gekker
Christian Hampton
Tori Hampton
Lucy Hawk
Andrea Hernandez
Theo Hinerfeld
Maude Hovey-Bradshaw
Riley Jacobson
Hana Javed
Emily Kirkpatrick
Eleanor Koss
Lydia Kuhr
J Licklider
Isabel Loza
Eve McMillin
Isamary Medina Marrero
Charlotte Miller
Tori Mooney
Myah Morris
Olivia Nach
Jevon Neal
Colin Nelsen
Claire Nitzsche
Yohance Nowlin
Jackson O’Brien
Megan O’Connor
Wyatt Parr
Abigail Rades
Lucia Ross
Nathan Ruger
Myra Sahai
Atlas Salomon
Rochelle Sazon
Annika Sevig
Sophia Smith
Gabrielle Sneed
Katherine Talmers
Laelia van der Bijl
Kaliyah Venson
Eliot Warren
Ryan Warren
Nadia Wieda
Owen Zeller
Musicians
Piano: John Goodwin
Percussion: Mitchell Owens
Development Credits
Uniting Voices international tour scholarships are funded, in part, by the generosity of Crescendo Fund donors, Joe & Janet Nolan and Jim & Ginger Meyer.
SPECIAL THANKS
Uniting Voices Chicago
Magdalena Delgado, Cultural Liaison
Giramondo Tours
Lorena Silva
Anahi Silva
Shure
Eduardo Valdes
Mariana Ceruti
León Soriano
David Roman
Nelson Arreguin
CIM - Ciclo de Iniciación Musical de la Facultad de Música UNAM.
Patricia Morales
Gabriela Ramirez
US Embassy - Mexico
Mtro. Antonio Pineda, Chief of Protocol
Mr. Robert Quiroz, Cultural Attaché
Elizabeth Andion, Cultural Specialist