The Bach Choir of Pittsburgh, in collaboration with singers from the South Hills Chorale and other choirs throughout the Pittsburgh region, will present the America250PA Choral Series featuring Sing Democracy 250 on Friday, July 3, at 7:30 p.m. at the O\u2019Reilly Theater in Pittsburgh\u2019s Cultural District.<\/p>\n
Created to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the United States, this special concert features two newly commissioned choral works that invite audiences to reflect on the promises, challenges, and responsibilities of American democracy.<\/p>\n
The program includes \u201cRedeem the Dream\u201d by composer Dr. Brandon A. Boyd, based on Langston Hughes\u2019 landmark poem \u201cLet America Be America Again.\u201d Written during the Great Depression, Hughes\u2019 poem examines the gap between the ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the lived experiences of many Americans, while ultimately expressing hope that the nation can fulfill its promise of freedom, equality, and opportunity for all.<\/p>\n
Also featured is \u201cUS\u201d by composer Michael Bussewitz-Quarm, inspired by Richard Haass\u2019 bestselling book \u201cThe Bill of Obligations.\u201d The work explores 10 obligations of citizenship and concludes with a call for Americans to actively engage in the civic responsibilities that sustain a healthy democracy.<\/p>\n
Tickets and additional information are available at bachchoirpittsburgh.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bach Choir of Pittsburgh, in collaboration with singers from the South Hills Chorale and other choirs throughout…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8120,98704,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-227613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-america250","tag-bach-choir-of-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}