Voices of Hope
The life-affirming power of music and the arts during times of crisis comes under the spotlight in Carnegie Hall’s Voices of Hope. This online festival examines the resilience of artists and explores the works they felt compelled to create despite—and often because of—appalling circumstances and human tragedy.
With streamed performances that range from orchestral and chamber works to folk and jazz, Voices of Hope features music that inspires change and lifts the human spirit. The Hall’s Weill Music Institute also engages its educational program participants, inviting songwriters of all ages from across New York City and beyond to create music exploring this theme.
Leading cultural and academic organizations extend the scope of the festival through online programming and events, exhibitions, performances, and film screenings, considering humankind’s capacity for hope, courage, and resilience in the face of the unimaginable.
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Festival Partners
The Africa Center
American Indian Community House
Americas Society
Apollo Theater
Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University
Battery Dance
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Brooklyn Museum
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University
Centro Primo Levi New York
China Institute
Flushing Town Hall
Global Arts Corps
Harlem Stage
Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University
Irish Arts Center
Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University
Japan Society, in association with the Mid-Manhattan Performing Arts Foundation
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Jazzmobile
The Jewish Museum
The Joyce Theater
Keyes Art Projects
Latin American Writers Institute of Hostos Community College, CUNY
Leo Baeck Institute, New York | Berlin
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
Louis Armstrong House Museum & Archives
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Opera
Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
Museum of the City of New York
National Black Theatre
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
New-York Historical Society
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Read650
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Yiddish Book Center
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Voices of Hope is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and TD Bank.