Voice for the Voiceless: Women

A recital of contemporary classical music featuring voices of the feminist movement: allies, youth, women around the world, pop culture, & activists.

RECITAL DESCRIPTION
Voice for the Voiceless is a curated program celebrating women of different stages of life, backgrounds, and social status. The program features music in 8 different languages, a growing selection of commissions, as well as two sets of carefully curated music from the 20th and 21st centuries. Through the intimacy of recital, depth of viewpoints presented in each song, and a layout which moves from questions of our past towards answers of tomorrow, singer and curator Chelsea Hollow aims to spark conversations inspiring progress and collective growth.

PROGRAM
Voice of the Allies: A set of songs and arias showing women with interesting depth of character by Heggie, Bloch, Poulenc, & Garrop.
Voice of the Young: Commissioned for the purpose of this recital program, Chris Martin (age 17) set 3 poems by young girls (ages 6, 8, & 9)
Voice of Worldwide Women: Turkish, Arabic, Chinese, and Spanish songs and arias based on feminist texts and figures. Includes a recital commission from Sophie Xuefei Zhang and songs by Tsippi Fleischer & aria by Carla Lucero.
Voice of the Cabaret: Cabaret and blues have long been a venue giving voice to women of all walks of life. Here, we celebrate the music of "Ma" Rainey, Edith Piaf, and Kurt Weill.
Voice of the Activist: Commissioned for this recital program, Niloufar Nourbakhsh's powerful, Darkness of the Womb uses text by Valarie Kaur from her speech where she encourages us to "breathe and push" to birth a better society.