Listen to the a Conspirare virtual concert of Unity: Songs of Invitation presented over the weekend as a streaming event via YouTube.

Unity invites viewers into a reverie that breaks new ground and elevates the virtual concert space from the familiar grid of squares. Artistic Director Craig Hella Johnson will ground the concert in two selections of Bach, connecting with the organization’s musical roots and including Conspirare favorites “Requiem,” “1000 Beautiful Things,” and Samuel Barber’s iconic “Agnus Dei.” The timely poetry of Joy Harjo, Erika Fine, N. Scott Momaday, and Herman Hesse complete the program. South African Director Andrew Timm and his team have masterfully combined the elements of the artists’ audio and video recordings and will stage them in a virtual 3-D amphitheater design. Timm and his team were influenced by Kintsugi, the Japanese art of using gold to repair cracks in a piece of broken pottery.

The program is available as a PDF document for viewing and/or printing here. If you prefer to watch this video directly on YouTube in another window (or even full-screen), click on this link or “YouTube” on the bottom right in the embedded player below. If you don’t have time for the entire program, you might just watch them perform God Bless America.

Videos

Unity: Songs of Invitation (Nov 2, 2020) – 1 hr

God Bless America (from Unity) – 3 mins

Listen to more of his music at my Conspirare post with additional albums, videos, and links.