A Time Like This: Music for Change
Performers
Lemon Andersen, Poet and Emcee
Rhiannon Giddens, Vocals
Toshi Reagon, Vocals
Young Paris, Vocals
Carrie Compere, Vocals
Ro James, Vocals
Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Vocals
Emily Eagen, Vocals
Emeline Michel, Vocals
Roya Marsh, Poet
Kenny Seymour, Music Supervisor, Director, and Arranger
with Special Guests
Noga Cabo, Songwriter and Vocals
Hannah Coleman, Songwriter and Vocals
Robert Pollock, Singer-Songwriter
Emma Thompson-Haye, Songwriter and Vocals
A Time Like This Band
·· Orson Benjamin, Vocals
·· Bridget Barkan, Vocals
·· Parris Lewis, Vocals
·· Kenny Richardson, Keyboards
·· James Moore, Guitar
·· Isaias Umali, Guitar
·· George Farmer, Bass Guitar
·· Clayton Craddock, Drums
·· James Shipp, Percussion
·· Mauricio Herrera, Percussion
·· Jason Marshall, Woodwinds
·· Scott Kreitzer, Woodwinds
·· John Walsh, Trumpet
·· Nick Marchione, Trumpet
·· Dexter Nurse, Trumpet
·· Chris Washburne, Trombone
·· Mazz Swift, Violin
·· Skye Steele, Violin
·· Pala Garcia, Violin
·· Erica Dicker, Violin
·· Daniel Barthels, Violin
·· Jessica Meyer, Viola
·· Jocelin Pan, Viola
·· Hamilton Berry, Cello
·· Marika Hughes, Cello
·· Saskia Lane, Bass
·· DJ Mode, DJ
Wadleigh High School Choir
·· Kim Walton, Director
Songs of Solomon
·· Chantel Wright, Director
Elias Howe Elementary School Second Grade Choir
·· Katie Traxler, Director
Future Music Project Ensemble
·· Saskia Lane, Faculty
·· James Shipp, Faculty
·· Mazz Swift, Faculty
·· Matthew Chiu, Vocals
·· Hannah Coleman, Vocals
·· Myea Patterson, Vocals
·· Noga Cabo, Guitar and Vocals
·· Ian Ackerman, Guitar
·· Malo Ingledew, Guitar
·· Seuss Fu-Rubin, Woodwinds
·· Diego Flores, Clarinet
·· Asia Hickman, Alto Saxophone
·· Ean Valte, Bass
·· Yeshak Pellot, Drums
·· Christopher Bell, Piano
·· Ed Horan, Piano
Free Verse Poets
·· Dave Johnson, Co-Founder, Director, and Lead Poet
·· Napoleon Felipe
·· Sherese Francis
·· Michael Gomez
·· Nicole Goodwin
·· Bruce Kirkland
·· Herbert Odom
·· Taqiy Witter
nicHi douglas, Stage Director
Dan Scully, Projection Designer
Stacey Boggs, Lighting Designer
Josh Reid, Sound Designer
Program
STEPHEN STILLS "For What It's Worth" (arr. Future Music Project Ensemble)
TRAD. Freedom / Motherless Child
HANNAH COLEMAN Unrequited Activism
QUEENASIA BAKER / EMELINE MICHEL / CLAIRE BRYANT Shooting Stars
WADLEIGH HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR / JAMIE HARRISON JONES Break the Chains
MARVIN GAYE / JAMES NYX JR. Inner City Blues
PS 177Q TECHNOLOGY BAND Take a Stand
SANDHYA KILAMBI /FALU SHAH One and the Same
JOSEPH WILSON Gnarly Knees (We All Fall)
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EMMA THOMPSON-HAYE afro americana
CHRISTOPHER BELL Complicit
ARETHA FRANKLIN / TEDDY WHITE Think
KENYATTA HUGHES What Are We Fighting For
BELMONT ACADEMY / AYNSLEY POWELL / ORSON BENJAMIN Let ’em Say
ROBERT POLLOCK Testify
NOGA CABO Stephen Said!
PS 51M ELIAS HOWE SECOND GRADE CHOIR / KATIE TRAXLER / EMILY EAGEN Yes, We Can
HENDRIX JIMI HENDRIX Bold as Love
An additional song will be announced from the stage.
Lead funding for Create Justice is provided by an anonymous donor.
Major funding is provided by Ameriprise Financial, MetLife Foundation, and The Kresge Foundation.
At a Glance
Through its education and social impact programs, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute (WMI) works each year with hundreds of songwriters from kindergarten through adulthood. In preparation for this afternoon’s culminating event, these songwriters have focused on the music and ideas of the 1960s over the past several months, listening to artists who have made big musical contributions to our culture, such as Johnny Cash, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Richie Havens, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Nina Simone, Stephen Stills, and Stevie Wonder. These artists not only took up the causes of equal rights, economic empowerment, and peace, but also created a deep body of music that has influenced generations of music makers since. Building from these powerful inspirations, WMI’s songwriters have been coached and encouraged to make their own work that is tied to causes and ideas they believe in today.
On this afternoon’s program, we hear 13 new songs selected from those written across the Weill Music Institute’s programs each year, along with several covers of influential songs from the 1960s. Some of the songwriters themselves join this afternoon’s program as guest artists onstage. Since the 1960s and long before, the Carnegie Hall stage has been a platform for the voices and causes that shape our world. This afternoon’s event builds on this legacy as the voices of tomorrow join forces with some of the leading artists of our time in a rallying cry for unity and the power of music for change.