“What Would You Do?” – from Promised Land: a Voting Rights Folk Opera

•  Full Score and 25-29 singers – $41.25
•  Full Score and 30-39 singers – $47.50
•  Full Score and 40-49 singers – $60.00
•  Full Score and 50-59 singers – $72.50
•  Full Score and 60-69 singers – $85.00
•  Full Score and 70+ – $97.50

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($2 per singer + $5 accompaniment)

This purchase includes manuscript versions of the full score, PV score, and banjo score.

In this duet, Anna Epps and Mary Brown share the difficult decisions of both black and white women in facing promoting access to the vote for their husbands, knowing that they will not receive the same right.

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.

Audio Recording –