Many of our video recordings are on our channel at the PeerTube instance toobnix.org.

1. Recent Seattle Peace Chorus sample videos

   A New World: Demanding freedom & justice, 7 June 2025

   Here’s our concert program.

   “Prende la Vela,” with the Miho & Diego Duo

   “Let America Be America Again,” with Yusef Severs, soloist, and text by Langston Hughes

   Teach Your Children: Songs for the next generation, 23 & 24 November 2024

   Here’s our concert program.

   “Know that You Yourself Are Essential to this World,” with Sondra Segundo, Haida soloist

   “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around,” with the African American Cultural Ensemble

2. 2022 Seattle Peace Chorus sample videos

   Jubilation in My Soul, 5 June 2022

   1. Download: Jubilation in My Soul
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   2. Download: Right Where You Stand Is Freedom Land
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   3. Jubilation in My Soul - concert photos

   Bringing People Together through Song, 6 June 2021

   1. Download: Where There Is Unity
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   2. Download: I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
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   Freedom Rings! 25 October 2020

   1. Download: All Good People
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   2. Download: Courage My Soul
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3. More Seattle Peace Chorus videos (for download only)

   Download: Together Apart

   Lyrics

   Now we seek to help our neighbor,
   Working together apart,
   Doing our part for friend and for stranger,
   Love at a distance spanned by the heart.

   Seattle Peace Chorus thanks the Action Ensemble “Together Apart” Virtual Choir:

   • Guitarist
   • Nedra Gaskill
   • Sopranos
   • Martha Baskin
   • Patricia Clayton
   • Margarita Muñoz
   • Nikki Nichols
   • Rosalyn Schiller
   • Mary Wilson
   • Altos (including borrowed sopranos)
   • Dee Knapp
   • Emily Leslie
   • Zarifah Spain
   • Cindy Talley
   • Wendy Zieve
   • Tenors
   • Doug Balcom, composer and ensemble director
   • Jeff Carter
   • Sue Hurley Rector
   • Basses
   • Steve Bauck
   • Stephen Ernst
   • David Matthews
   • Dale Rector

   Canto General, performed by Seattle Peace Chorus, Town Hall Seattle, 8 June 2019

   1. Download: Algunas Bestias
   2. Download: Vegetaciones
   3. Download: Amor America
   4. Download: A Emiliano Zapata
   5. Download: Lautaro
   6. Download: Neruda Requiem
   7. Download: Lautaro
   8. Download: Sandino
   9. Download: America Insurrecta
   10. Download: A Mi Partido
   11. Download: Los Libertadores
   12. Download: Voy a Vivir

   Lyric sheets and slides:

   1. Download: 2019CantoGeneralLyrics.pdf
   2. Download: 2019CantoGeneralLyricsShow.pdf

   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.

   In Collaboration With:

   Tom Bell – Accompanist/Piano 1, Charles Hiestand – Piano 2, Jakob Phipps – Double Bass, Sarah Bassingthwaighte – Flute 1, Cassie Lear – Flute 2, Josefina Mutascu – Flute 3, Elizabeth Brown – Guitar 1, Mark Hilliard – Guitar 2, Storm Tucker – Guitar 3, Dr. Miho Takekawa – Percussion 1, Matt Kusche – Percussion 2, Emmy Ulmer – Timpani

   Sopranos

   Martha Baskin*, Miriam Blau, Julie Buchans, Jessica Cherry, Carol Dansereau, Julie Eriksen, Lindsay Fallert, Dee Knapp, Emily Leslie, Jessica McCoy, Nikki Nichols, Rosalyn Schiller

   Altos

   Elizabeth Alexander, Rosemary Bell, Meta Chessin, Martha Cohen, Mary Giordano, Alicia Henson, Sue Hurley Rector*, Anita Lenges, Kelsey Merrick, Julie O’Connor, Molly Ryan, Kris Zawisza, Wendy Zieve

   Tenors

   Doug Balcom, Jeff Carter, Bill Cote*, Joe Knight, Kevin O’Connor Sylvain Slaton Karel Stephers

   Basses

   Bob Andrews, Steve Bauck, Christopher LeeKeenan, David Matthews, Dale Rector, Tom Sharp, Straton Spyropoulos, Markos Weiss*

4. Seattle Sings Choral Festival, 8 October 2015

   

   Seattle Peace Chorus, directed by Frederick N. West

   Greater Seattle Choral Consortium: Seattle Sings Choral Festival Thursday, October 8, St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle

   View the concert program and list of participating choirs at seattlesings.org.

   1. Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika
   2. Singabantwana Besikolo
   3. El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido
   4. Rachmaninoff, All Night Vigil, Movement 8
   5. All of Your Precious Light, composed by Frederick West
   6. The Storm Is Passing Over, with Kent Stevenson at the piano

5. Songs, Marimbas, & Schubert for our Children, 4 June 2016

   

   Schubert’s Mass in G, and Cantata for the Children by Frederick N. West, 4 June 2016, University Congregational Church, Seattle

   15 tracks.

   Featuring Alexandra Picard (soprano), Denise Schlickbernd (alto), Justin Ferris (tenor), Steve Tachell (baritone), Thione and Gora Diop (drums).

   1. Mass in G - Kyrie
   2. Mass in G - Gloria
   3. Mass in G - Credo
   4. Mass in G - Sanctus
   5. Mass in G - Benedictus
   6. Mass in G - Agnus Dei
   7. Cantata for the Children - Oh How Glorious / It Takes a Whole Village
   8. Cantata for the Children - All of My Heart
   9. Cantata for the Children - You Are a Miracle
   10. Cantata for the Children - The Lion Walked
   11. Cantata for the Children - The Beacon (to the spirit village)
   12. Cantata for the Children - In Every Man there Is a Father
   13. Cantata for the Children - I Believe
   14. Cantata for the Children - Her Name Is Africa
   15. Cantata for the Children - Rain Still Talks to Me