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- 2024 Fall - Teach Your Children: Songs for the Next Generation
- 2024 Spring - Classical Traditions: East meets west in the key of C
- 2023 Fall - Opening Doors to the World through Song
- 2023 Spring - Peace to the Planet
- 2022 Fall - Be the Change: Songs of peace, justice, and compassion
- 2022 Spring - Jubilation in My Soul: A Gallery of Dynamic Black Lives
- 2021 Spring - Bringing People Together Through Song
- 2020 Fall - Freedom Rings: Get out the vote & bring in the light
- 2019 Spring - Canto General
- 2018 Spring - People of the Drum
Teach Your Children: Songs for the Next Generation
Seattle Peace Chorus, directed by Frederick N. West, in collaboration with Sondra Segundo and the African American Cultural Ensemble with Kent Stevenson, performs songs that inspire us. As each wave of generations comes into its own, we look at what would we like to pass on, what would we like our children to learn. Songs have a special role to move us to be involved in building community and to work for a more peaceful world. Songs can bring hope, reflection, and a sense of well being as well as action.
Classical Traditions: East meets west in the key of C
Seattle Peace Chorus, directed by Frederick N. West, builds a song bridge spanning Eastern and Western classical traditions. For the first half of the concert, with guest artists South Indian violinist Amrutha Varshini Achalla, tabla player Anil Prasad, and composer and lead vocalist Richard Russell, the chorus performs original kirtan music. For the second half, Amrutha, Anil, and a string quartet led by guest artist Matt Weiss accompany our performance of movements from Beethoven’s Mass in C. The chorus also sings Maurice Duruflé’s “Ubi Caritas” and other compositions.
Saturday 1 June 2024
Sunday 9 June 2024
Opening Doors to the World through Song
Seattle Peace Chorus performed international songs from gospel and classical traditions—from Cuba, Greece, Russia, South Africa, Latvia, Italy, and the Americas—from our 40-year history of singing for peace and justice.
Peace to the Planet
With guest artists Chava Mirel, Kent Stevenson, and Mary Kantor, plus a personal recorded message from environmentalist Bill McKibben, features movements from "Upon This Land: an environmental oratorio" and other works celebrating the beauty of the earth and calling for stewardship of the land and all its creatures.
Saturday 3 June 2023
Sunday 11 June 2023
2022 Fall - Be the Change: Songs of peace, justice, and compassion
Seattle Peace Chorus and Seattle Iranian Choir, with Kent Stevenson and Chava Mirel, perform songs affirming the universal rights of justice and freedom, with the desire for peace and compassion toward all people and the planet that sustains us. We sing out especially for women’s rights.
Jubilation in My Soul: A Gallery of Dynamic Black Lives
An original choral work by Kent Stevenson performed in concert by the Seattle Peace Chorus, directed by Frederick N. West, with special guests: Shades of Praise Gospel Choir; pianist & composer: Kent Stevenson; narrated by Stephanie Scott Hatley & Cleve Ticeson; bass: Michael Stickler; violin: BJ Montoya; Greenwood Story scene coordinator: Vania Bynum; dancers: Darwin Black & Vania Bynum; Greenwood youth narrators: Aliyah Bynum, Olivia Frieson (vocalist), Beliyah Richards.
Bringing People Together Through Song
A virtual concert with guest gospel soloists Tanisha Brooks and Lisa Allen.
Freedom Rings: Get out the vote & bring in the light
A virtual concert, including “Let America Be America Again” — musical setting of the poetry of Langston Hughes, & other songs inviting all citizens to open their hearts and participate in our democracy, featuring:
- Jason Turner, soloist
- Jimi Malary, baritone soloist
- Sondra Segundo, Haida soloist
- Chris Daigre, renown African-American dancer
- The Courage Ensemble, with Reverend Dr. Kelle Brown, soloist
- Emmy Ulmer on timpani
- Guest conductor Kenya Léger
- Shades of Praise Choir, directed by Kent Stevenson
- Gretchen Yanover on cello
Canto General
Seattle Peace Chorus,directed and conducted by Frederick N. West, with Nadia Tarnawsky, alto soloist, and Jonathan Silvia, baritone soloist. Music by Mikis Theodorakis, lyrics by Pablo Neruda, performed at Town Hall Seattle, 8 June 2019. Videography by Henry Slater, camera work by Henry Slater and John Slater.
People of the Drum
Seattle Peace Chorus performed this premier on Saturday 2 June 2018 at Seattle First Baptist Church. It was composed by Frederick N. West to honor Native Americans and their contributions to our nation, community, and our environment. Guest artists—Tom Bell: piano, Josefina Mutascu: flute, Logan Esterling: oboe & English horn, Jim Hendrickson: French horn, Mary Kantor: bass clarinet Fred Winkler: soprano sax, Matthew Weiss: first violin, Elizabeth Alexander, second violin, Jenn Glenn: viola, Karen Fardal: cello, Attila Kiss: double bass, Kent Stevenson: piano, Sid Law: drums, electric guitar, & vocals, “Che oke ten” Wagner: Native American drum & vocals, Charlie Hiestand: bass guitar, Thione Diop: Sengegalese drum. Soloist--Sondra Segundo-Cunningham.