Raise Up Your Voice - Prologue

"When all the world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. We raise up our voices, not to shout, but so that those without a voice will be heard."
Hear our Youth Opera perform the moving finale of Raise Up Your Voice: Intolerance Through the Voices of Children, from our Fall 2019 Season.
Originally performed as a prologue to the opera Brundibár by Krása.
ABOUT RAISE UP YOUR VOICE
By Martha Collins and Jesse Martins
When we first learned about Brundíbar, we were profoundly moved by the history surrounding the work - that of it having been performed by children in the Terezín camp-ghetto. As we delved more into the lives and writings of these children, most of whom were murdered under the Nazi regime, we became deeply inspired and humbled by these young people who strove to stay artistically alive under such prohibitive conditions. It became important to us that the companion piece we created to go with Brundíbar should not use words and stories created by us, but rather the actual words of young people. The search led us to the diaries and letters of children throughout the world written while they were living through the challenges of intolerance in its many forms.
In 1948, Winston Churchill said “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it”. It is important that we remember the stories of these children. We found wisdom in the words of these inspiring young people who were questioning the world that adults had created; these children who were able to see the world through a lens of what life could be when not limited by politics, hatred or indoctrination.

[@nancycurtis1725]

Beautiful voices with a beautiful message at this time in our Pandemic World!

[@janicenewman3503]

So moving! Thank you!

[@christopherphillips9891]

Wow -- Absolutely electrifying!!