Lisa Bielawa's Voters' Litany with Cathedral Choral Society

On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 4pm, the world premiere of Lisa Bielawa's Voters' Litany will be presented by the Cathedral Choral Society and Orchestra, led by Steven Fox, at Washington National Cathedral. For this program, I Have Something to Say, the Cathedral Choral Society has commissioned three of today's leading women composers - Lisa Bielawa, Jessie Montgomery, and Augusta Read Thomas - that demonstrate the impact of speaking up and speaking out. As part of the day's activities, audience members will also get to dictate a postcard to a real or imagined President as a part of Sheryl Oring's work I Wish to Say.

Bielawa explains of Voters' Litany, "While it has been 102 years since women in the United States got the vote with the historic passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, Voters' Rights is still a vital issue in our country today. The diversity of American citizenry is storied, issuing out of complexity and struggle as well as freedom and opportunity."

The texts for Voters' Litany are excerpted from postcards created through Sheryl Oring's ongoing project I Wish to Say. Launched in 2004, I Wish to Say consists of performances where Oring and sometimes a pool of typists set up stands in well trafficked public areas where people can walk up and dictate their messages to the current President, or - in election years - to the next President.

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Category: Arts | Performing Arts | Music

Price:
General Admission: USD 25.0