{"id":191442,"date":"2016-10-19T14:58:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T18:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=191442"},"modified":"2016-10-26T10:27:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T14:27:24","slug":"celebrating-suffrage-through-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/celebrating-suffrage-through-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating suffrage through song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"callout\" style=\"width: 30%; float: right; margin-left: 20px; font-size: .9em;\">\n<h3>Where you can hear the Women\u2019s Chorus<\/h3>\n<p>The Women\u2019s Chorus will perform a free concert with the Eastman Repertory Singers at 8 p.m. Friday, October 21 at Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music.<\/p>\n<h3>Program at Seneca Falls Dialogues Conference<\/h3>\n<p>Silvey has created a program of selected musical pieces that not only fit the occasion, but also create educational opportunities. The first part of the program centers on a theme of legacy of freedom through music, activism, and social justice:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cReverberations,\u201d an original chant piece done with a Tibetan singing bowl, an instrument made out of iron that produces a sustained sound.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSanta Maria Leva,\u201d a medieval-period sacred Virgin Mary piece that draws from traditional icons with narratives of restoration and redemption.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLineage,\u201d a composition by Andrea Ramsey, and based on the poetry of American poet Margaret Walker.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOn Children\u201d is written by Dr. Ysaye Barnwell, a long-time member of the all-female a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock, set to the poetry of Lebanese \u2013American poet Kahlil Gibran.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPast Life Melodies\u201d is composed by Australian composer Sarah Hopkins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The last three pieces on the program represent the different instances of injustice in history and show how music galvanized protesters who wished to assemble and unite in their causes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cSuffrage Song\u201d is the rally song first performed at the convention in 1848.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAsikhatali\u201d is a South African freedom song that arose during apartheid.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe Shall Overcome\u201d is the civil rights anthem sung at many American rallies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the same place that Elizabeth Cady Stanton\u2014one of the leading voices of the women\u2019s rights movement\u2014first stood, to declare the right to vote, the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½\u2019s Women\u2019s Chorus will also stand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think back about how far we\u2019ve come and about how important it will be to exercise my right to vote,\u201d says Jackie Powell \u201918. Powell, along with more than 60 other young women who make up the ensemble, will perform at the site of the Seneca Falls Dialogues conference on Saturday, October 22. Less than a month away from an election where voters have a choice to elect the first woman president, the chorus will express women\u2019s suffrage through song.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PCMIhSEuWOY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>The Women&#8217;s Chorus performs &#8220;Suffrage Song&#8221; during Meliora Weekend.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the ensemble\u2019s first trip to the Women\u2019s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls where they will sing a program of a capella music at the Wesleyan Chapel, the site where the \u201cDeclaration of Sentiments,\u201d was first proposed by Stanton in 1848. The biennial event attracts more than a 100 educators, activists, and students who come together to discuss activism, and exchange ideas in the spirit of the first women\u2019s national convention.<\/p>\n<p>A popular joint ensemble at the University, the Women\u2019s Chorus is the only ensemble comprised of students\u2014both music majors and nonmusic majors from the Arts, Sciences and Engineering, as well as voice and opera students from the Eastman School of Music. The ensemble also includes members from the Rochester community. The singers meet outside of their regular class schedule, but Philip Silvey, assistant professor of music education at Eastman, uses that time to teach topics as it is related to the humanities. \u201cI think of it as women\u2019s studies,\u201d says Silvey. Much of the music and materials taught during the chorus rehearsals are works performed by women, women poets, and women composers. \u201cIt\u2019s a powerful way for them to engage in poetry and music and to express themselves, says Silvey. \u201cI teach them about being artists and being artful in the way that they communicate. It\u2019s the idea of 21st-century skills, the kinds of skills that people are going to need for the current workforce, including creativity, problem solving, and cooperation. I think about us experiencing those in a musical way that they might not experience in a lab class or in a lecture class,\u201d Silvey says.<\/p>\n<p>The significance of the women\u2019s suffrage movement takes on a special meaning for the Rochester area as its former resident, famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass became a champion to Stanton\u2019s declaration. There\u2019s also the connection and long-time friendship between Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, who not only served as the pioneers for women\u2019s rights, but had an impact on the future of American civil rights.<\/p>\n<p>Sung entirely from memory, the chorus will perform a program of eight songs in the middle of the day. And throughout the conference, the chorus members will have the freedom to explore the museums, take part in the ongoing conversations, or attend the programs. \u201cHe hasn\u2019t just created this chorus where they sing pretty music and that\u2019s it,\u201d says Honey Meconi, professor of music in Department of Music and professor of musicology at the Eastman School of Music. \u201cHe\u2019s created a learning environment where they learn what it\u2019s like to be a woman.\u201d Meconi, who also served as director of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women\u2019s Studies for several years, says she\u2019s ecstatic for experience that the Women\u2019s Chorus will have during their visit. \u201cIt\u2019s an incredibly symbolic year,\u201d says Meconi. \u201cWomen have come a long way from the 19th century. But also\u2014here we are in Rochester, New York. It\u2019s a historical place of the abolition and women\u2019s rights movements and people who come to Rochester often haven\u2019t been to visit what\u2019s in our own backyard,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a sentiment also shared by Powell, an international relations major, writer of a women in sports column for the <em>Campus Times, <\/em>and radio host of the show,<em> \u201c<\/em>Everybody Talks,\u201d on<em> The Sting, <\/em>a WRUR online radio. \u201cI think it\u2019s cool that the material really relates to who we are as women,\u201d says Powell. \u201cDr. Silvey is very progressive. \u201cHe\u2019s a lot about the storytelling and it\u2019s why I\u2019m in the Women\u2019s Chorus. I can take my angst and I can put it into something positive. 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