First Glimpse 2022 - Your Voice
Music and Text by Raquel Acevedo Klein
Jasmine Muhammad, soprano
Ron Robinson, piano
Text:
No one can deny you your voice.
No one can deny us our voices.
Let's make waves across these cities.
Let's make waves across this world.
Don't turn a blind eye,
embrace your voice.
Voices carrying our stories,
questioning the silence,
speaking truth to power.
No one can deny us our love.
No one can deny us our strength.
You've got your voice,
I've got my voice.
We've got our voices,
let's build our voices.
Video - Chris Comfort
Audio - Craig Slon
Production Assistant - Joel Kalow
Recorded on location at South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY
Created in Cycle 11 of The American Opera Project’s “Composers & the Voice” Fellowship Training Program
C&V Artistic Director: Steven Osgood
Head of Music: Mila Henry
Head of Drama: Matt Gray
Music Directors: Mila Henry, Kelly Horsted, Ron Robinson
http://aopopera.org/composers-voice
Composers & the Voice is made possible in part by generous multi-year awards from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.