This seasonal showcase will bring to life the diverse sounds of Chicago's historic Hyde Park neighborhood through a concert featuring original music, exciting choreography and multimedia presentations. This concert will also feature a performance from special guests Girls Choral Academy.
Tickets are $10* per person, available for purchase at the concert. All seating is general admission.
*Uniting Voices Chicago has a pay-what-you-can policy, allowing guests to pay as much or as little as they like per ticket, including requesting free tickets if desired*
Uniting Voices Chicago strives to make music and performance accessible to anyone who wants it. Assistive listening devices are available at the ticketing desk. All public performance areas at Logan Center are equipped to accommodate wheelchair users. To request accommodations, please email info [at] unitingvoiceschicago [dot] org.
Hyde Park Neighborhood Choir is supported in part by CIBC. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Hyde Park Neighborhood Choir Community Concert
Featuring Grandville Avenue Girls Choir of Girls Choral Academy
Saturday, May 6, 2023
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. College Preparatory High School
Conductors
Magdalena Delgado, Hyde Park Neighborhood Choir
Maya McAdory, Grandville Avenue Girls ChoirAbout Uniting Voices Chicago
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.
After the Show
Paint The Town Red
May 25
11am | Pritzker Pavillion
Join us downtown for our largest and most-anticipated event of the year! Singers from all levels of our programs will come together in song alongside dazzling special guests to celebrate the power of music and everything they’ve learned in our programs over the past year.
Paint The Town Red Giving Day
Support this transformative day that brings together the next generation of global leaders in Chicago! Join in the spirit of togetherness as young people from every corner of Chicago harmonize in the heart of the city with a donation to keep these programs accessible to
all singers.
Concert Program
HYDE PARK NEIGHBORHOOD CHOIRS COMBINED
Salaam (od yavo shalom aleinu)
Mosh Ben-Ari/Sheva; arr. Lisa Arnold
Jubilate Deo
Michael Praetorius
HYDE PARK NEIGHBORHOOD CHOIR ALLEGRO
I Love Everybody
American Civil Rights freedom song; arr. Lonnie Norwood, Jr.; soloists Celia Talbott, Geordan Boling, Kainoah Rutledge, Willa Ludwig & Hannah Holt
Ay, Jalisco no te rajes
Manuel Esperón; arr. Danny Wallenberg & Lisa Arnold
HYDE PARK NEIGHBORHOOD CHOIR ALLEGRO & GRANDVILLE AVENUE GIRLS CHOIR
Build Me a World
Ginger Littleton
GRANDVILLE AVENUE GIRLS CHOIR
More to Me
Pinkzebra
El Coquí
Trad. Puerto Rican song; arr. Mark Burrows
HYDE PARK NEIGHBORHOOD CHOIR VIVACE & PRESTO
Courage My Friend
Trad. South African anti-Apartheid song; arr. Lonnie Norwood, Jr.; soloists Mayumi Felder, Jaylah Fulton, Derricka Matthews & Farrah Benson
Dirait-On
Morten Lauridsen
Como la flor
Abraham Quintanilla III & Pete Astudillo; arr. W. Mitchell Owens III; choreography by Farlanda Buchannon; soloists Helena Smith-Donald & Nico Rademacher-Wedd
HYDE PARK NEIGHBORHOOD CHOIRS COMBINED
En mi Viejo San Juan
Noel Estrada; arr. Danny Wallenberg & Lisa Arnold; soloists Jahlani Fulton, Avery Veldman & Morgan Robinson
ALL CHOIRS COMBINED
We All Live Here
W. Mitchell Owens III; choregraphy by Judy Hanson
TODAY'S PERFORMERS
HYDE PARK NEIGHBORHOOD CHOIR ALLEGRO
Marta Allesina
Gaia Ansah
Geordan Boling
Maliyah Brown
Aya Burns
Elias Considine
Samika Dangi
Eli Evans
Jahlani Fulton
Masha Gorbacheva
Mars Hall
Livia Harrison-Smit
Laura Hieronymus
Hannah Holt
Madeline Laurence
Willa Ludwig
Vivian Maguire
Susannah McCormick
Callia Muhammad
Nicholas Muthu
Charissa Nieh
Lena Nixon
Leah Papczun
Sumana Paranjape
Lashawn Pritchett
Lena Rappaport
Elliot Ridgway
Avi Ruby
Kainoah Rutledge
Natalie Schmitz
Ava Sherman
Celia Talbott
Avery Veldman
Anna Vermylen
Ray Weitzman
Vespasia Wells
HYDE PARK NEIGHBORHOOD CHOIR VIVACE
Okikiola Abiola-Fagba
Farrah Benson
Morgan Boyd-Shields
Maya Cooper
Isis Culbert
Christian Davis
Derneisha Elisias
Mayumi Felder
Jaylah Fulton
Hazel Gates
Victoria Gonzalez
Sophia Hieronymus
Reagan Jones
Cedelle Owusu
Eloise Pope
Katelynn Walters
HYDE PARK NEIGHBORHOOD CHOIR PRESTO
Wuraola Abiola-Fagba
Vera Cyrenne
Arianna Fernando
Reed Francez
Alethia Ikem
Esther Jen
Derricka Matthews
Nico Rademacher-Wedd
Morgan Robinson
Helena Smith-Donald
Anaya Scott
GRANDVILLE AVENUE GIRLS CHOIR
Brittany Alfonso
Isabella Cano-Puente
Dareli Colbert
Amy Cortez
Anai Lopez DeLeon
Kimberly Diaz-Ramirez
Aubrey Frazier
Elena Galvan Ramirez
Phyenix Gillespie
Meraris Lopez Bravo
Jaslyn Martinez
Leah Ochoa
AuZariya Mitchell
Debora Morales
Connie Nolasco
Paola Noyola-Ayona
Jeanine Omary
Jannely Puente Corona
Marshay Pratt
Journey Richardson
SaRiyiah Robinson
Mia Rodriguez
Victoria Rodriguez
Valeria Sanchez
Yuseyli Vail
Dayana Vasquez
Alizae Zambrana
MUSICIANS
Greg Strauss (Trumpet)
Chieko Garling (Piano)
Marquis Carter (Drums)
Dave Hiltebrand (Guitar)
Tim Seisser (Bass)
ABOUT GRANDVILLE AVENUE GIRLS CHOIR
The Grandville Avenue Girls Choir is a free after school program for girls who attend Grand Rapids Public Schools in the southwest neighborhoods of Grand Rapids. Schools represented today are Buchanan Elementary School, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary School and Southwest Elementary School. The Grandville Avenue Girls Choir is a part of the Girls Choral Academy, which serves girls all over West Michigan.
SPECIAL THANKS
This project is supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
This project is supported, in part, by a CityArts grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events
Support for Neighborhood Choir programs is provided by Peoples Gas.
Support for the Hyde Park Neighborhood Choir is provided, in part, by CIBC & Richard L. Duchossois Memorial Foundation.
First Unitarian Church of Chicago
Michael Knowles, Director of Operations
Murray Language Academy
Gregory Mason, Principal
Cicely Perry, Liaison