This seasonal showcase will bring to life the sounds of Chicago's historic Hyde Park neighborhood through a concert featuring original music, exciting choreography and multimedia presentations. It will also feature performances by Dimension, Uniting Voices Chicago's unique ensemble for singers age 12 and up who are beginning the vocal transition into their tenor and baritone range.
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.
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Hyde Park Neighborhood Choir and Dimension Community Concert
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Logan Center For The Arts
Conductors
Magdalena Delgado, Hyde Park Neighborhood Choir & School Programs
Judy Hanson, Dimension
About 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
Feel Inspired?
Like what you heard tonight? Want to be a bold voice for change and an ambassador for your community? Following tonight’s concert, students in grades 3 and up are invited to take part in a vocal placement and be ready to start in our programs for the very next rehearsal. Learn more about Uniting Voices Chicago and our sliding scale tuition at unitingvoiceschicago.org/join
Black History Month: Sankofa Speaks
February 27 & 28 | Chicago Symphony Center
Sankofa is an Akan Ghanaian word meaning “to go or return and retrieve what was lost.” With this pillar program Uniting Voices Chicago uses performance to raise the visibility of authentic Africana music including selections from Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Trinidad and Tobago, and South Africa, plus a rich legacy of African American music from the United States. Special guests include master djembekhan Sekou Conde and renowned soprano Audrey DuBois Harris.
Concert Program
Hyde Park Neighborhood Choirs Combined / Dimension / School Programs
Jubilate Deo
Michael Praetorius
Translation:
Sing joyful to God, Hallelujah
Hyde Park Allegro
Ani Ma’amin
Trad. Jewish folk song; arr. Paul Caldwell & Sean Ivory
Translation:
I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah,
and though he tarries, I will wait daily for his coming.
*Translation from The Standard Prayer book by Simeon Singer (1915) (public domain)
Old Abram Brown
Benjamin Britten; lyrics by Walter de la Mare
Hyde Park Allegro and Vivace
Corner of the Sky
Stephen Schwartz; arr. Teena Chinn; choreography by Magdalena Delgado
Hyde Park Vivace
Nube de Hielo
Benito Cabrera; arr. Dante Andreo; lyrics by Andrés Molina
Translation:
I draw you on a piece of paper, painting shadows to the sea;
the cloud that saw me born, also saw me leave.
The distance hurts more if all good is behind;
like a child without play, like a sad song.
Could of ice in the peak of the wide sea.
Cloud of silence, what can you tell?
My youth, my adolescence, and my age of play.
You will see how my life will go.
Hyde Park Vivace and Presto
When I Rise Up
J. David Moore; lyrics by Wendell Berry
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Eleanor Daley; lyrics by W.B. Yates
Hyde Park Presto and Dimension
Modimo rea go boka
Trad. Sotho church chorus
Translation:
Lord we praise you
we rejoice you
Messiah, we hail you
Tu lu lu lu…
Medieval Gloria
Vijay Singh; text from the ordinary of the Mass
Ich will denn Herrn loben
George Philipp Telemann; arr. Wallace DePue
Holly Jolly Christmas
Johnny Marks; arr. Greg Gilpin
Pompeii
Dan Smith; arr. Jacob Narverud; choreography by Judy Hanson
Hyde Park Neighborhood Choirs Combined / Dimension / School Programs
United
W. Mitchell Owens III; choreography by Judy Hanson and Voice of Chicago singers
Tonight’s Performers
Hyde Park Neighborhood Choir Allegro
Marta Allesina
Maliyah Brown
Aya Burns
Elias Considine
Samika Dangi
Elias Evans
Jahlani Fulton
Mars Hall
Livia Harrison-Smit
Laura Hieronymus
Rosa Isaac
Madeline Laurence
Juliet Lopez
Maria Lopez
Willa Ludwig
Vivian Maguire
Addison McClain
Callia Muhammad
Nicholas Muthu
Lena Nixon
Leah Papczun
Sumana Paranjape
Lashawn Pritchett
Lena Rappaport
Elliot Ridgway
Avi Ruby
Kainoah Rutledge
Celia Talbott
Avery Veldman
Anna Vermylen
Ray Weitzman
Vespasia Wells
Hyde Park Neighborhood Choir Vivace
Isis Culbert
Vera Cyrenne
Christian Davis
Mayumi Felder
Jaylah Fulton
Hazel Gates
Victoria Gonzalez
Sophia Hieronymus
Zion Hohenkirk
Reagan Jones
Cedelle Owusu
Eloise Pope
Marlowe Savage
George Stoops
Katelynn Walters
Hyde Park Neighborhood Choir Presto
Success Abiola-Fagba
Imani Bragg
Arianna Fernando
Reed Francez
Alethia Ikem
Esther Jen
Derricka Matthews
Nico Rademacher-Wedd
Morgan Robinson
Helena Smith-Donald
Anaya Scott
Dimension
Liam Brandfonbrener
Blaze Brown
Lincoln Burnell
Ravi Chandra
Jonathan Costello
Jamion Cotten
Oliver DeMarea
Andrez Elliot
Henry Ellis
JaRonn Gamon
Edison Gong
Josiah Hill
Vali Kizilbash
Rene Krall-Lanoue
Connor Lane
Jackson O’Brien
Exavier Pope, III
Alexander Rossi
Patrick Spera
Maxwell Stone
Vennes Tabiliran
Aris Velasquez
Eliot Warren
Owen Zeller
School Programs
Beulah Shoesmith Elementary School
Bret Harte Math & Science Cluster School
Musicians
Chieko Garling (Pianist)
Anna Piotrowski (Violin)
Dave Hiltebrand (Guitar)
Tim Seisser (Bass)
Marquis Carter (Drums)
Special Thanks
Michael Knowles; Director of Operations, First Unitarian Church of Chicago
Thank you to our Program Assistants Jackie Johnson and Elinor Keener.
Beulah Shoesmith Elementary School
Hannah Haller and Yolanda Anderson, Liaisons
Bret Harte Math & Science Cluster School
Charles Bright, Principal Shequitis Shelton-Turner, Assistant Principal & Liaison
Logan Center for the Arts
Bill Michel, Executive Director
Hyde Park Neighborhood Choir is supported in part by CIBC.