“Come Up to Timbuctoo” – from Promised Land: a Voting Rights Folk Opera

•  Full Score and 25-29 singers – $95.00
•  Full Score and 30-39 singers – $105.00
•  Full Score and 40-49 singers – $125.00
•  Full Score and 50-59 singers – $145.00
•  Full Score and 60-69 singers – $165.00
•  Full Score and 70+ – $185.00

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($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 families to accept land grants to obtain the vote in Pre-Civil War rural New York State.

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 of Adirondack farmland to 3,000 free blacks in an attempt to fulfill New York State’s onerous property requirement necessary for blacks to vote. This opera brings this complex struggle to life with deeply emotional melodies, driving 19th century dance rhythms and the dramatic struggle for racial equality and inclusive democracy.

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