Format: Octavo (manuscript)Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass, Piano, Violoncello, Maracas ($2 per singer + $15 for accompaniment) This product includes manuscript versions of the full score, piano-vocal score, and individual accompaniment scores. This passionate choral overture presents some of the key melodies and texts that frame this pre-Civil War voting rights story. Promised Land: a Voting…
Format: Octavo (manuscript)Piccolo, Soprano Solo, Baritone Solo, Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass, Piano, Double Bass, Snare Drum, Bass Drum ($2 per singer + $30 for accompaniment) This product includes manuscript versions of full score, piano-vocal score, individual accompaniment scores. This passionate choral overture presents some of the key melodies and texts that frame this pre-Civil War…
Format: Octavo (manuscript)Soprano Solo, Baritone Solo, Piano Here, the two main characters of Promised Land struggle with the decision to uproot their family and move to the frontier to obtain the vote. Lyman argues the big ideas while his wife Anna raises the real dangers to their family associated with this opportunity. Promised Land: a…
Format: OctavoSoprano Solo, Banjo Anna unpacks the stark realities of living as a black woman in a pre-Civil War free state that still practices voter suppression and tolerates racism. Promised Land: a Voting Rights Folk Opera – In the 1850s, abolitionist Gerrit Smith (with John Brown, Frederick Douglass and others) gave away over 120,000 acres…
Format: Octavo (manuscript)Soprano Solo, Tenor Solo, Baritone Solo, SATB, Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Violoncello, Double Bass, Bones/Spoons, Tambourine ($2 per singer + $45 for accompaniment) This product includes manuscript versions of full score, choral score, section scores, and individual accompaniment scores. This adaptation of the 19th c. minstrel tune, “Boatman’s Dance,” calls for black…