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Visionary voices soar in pitch and poetry with bold aspiration toward the best of what we can be in community and as country. Margaret Bonds’s 1965 setting of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Credo powerfully expands his “I believe” texts, moving us towards a “life lit by a large vision of beauty and goodness and truth.” Our community partner, Youth Speaks Seattle, grounds us in the here and now with “I believe” responses by young poets, engaging with Du Bois’s Credo today in Seattle. Bonds’s longtime friendship with Langston Hughes comes alive in solo song settings of his poetry, sung by guest artists Myah Rose Paden and Richard L. Hodges. Hopeful settings of Langston Hughes by Atlanta-based composer Joel Thompson spur us to dream of a new dawn, to sing for the future, and to swear for all, “America will be!”

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Choral Arts Northwest