Earthsongs: FREEDOM & HOPE
Earthsongs: FREEDOM & HOPE spreads its wings with a concert dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Like a flock of birds rising together in flight, this program celebrates resilience, unity, and the universal longing for a freer, more hopeful world. Our season finale also features a few world premieres, including the first-place winner of our 2025–26 Rachel Moore Choral Student Composition Contest. Join The Choral Project for an evening of powerful voices carrying messages of justice and joy.
General Admission $40 • Senior Citizens (62+) $30 • Students (High School ➕ Undergraduate College) $15
EARTHSONGS: FREEDOM & HOPE
Sunday, June 28, 2026
5 PM
Mission Santa Clara de Asís
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053
REPERTOIRE
“America the Beautiful”
Samuel A. Ward, Katharine Lee Bates
arr. Daniel Hughes
“Babethandaza”
Traditional South African Song
arr. Daniel Hughes
“Famine Song”
VIDA
arr. Matthew Culloton
“How Can I Keep From Singing”
American Folk Hymn
arr. Ronald Staheli
“Keramos”
Stephen Schwartz
“Lighten Mine Eyes”
Bo Hansson
“No One Is Alone”
(from Into the Woods)
Stephen Sondheim
“O know to end as to begin”
(from The Hour Glass)
Irving Fine
“Refugees”
Daniel Hughes
“The Heart is the Compass”
Neil Ginsberg, Linda Marcus
“Sing Me the Universal”
S.E. Andrews
First Place Winner
Rachel Moore Choral Composition
“Tonight Eternity Alone”
(from Dusk at Sea)
René Clausen
“Unclouded Day”
Rev. J.K. Alwood
arr. Shawn Kirchner
“You Are the New Day”
John David
arr. Peter Knight