Songs of Protest

This Classical Series performance from Oakland Symphony featured LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture No. 3, SAMUEL BARBER: Second Essay for Orchestra, MARTIN ROKEACH & REBECCA ENGLE, LIBRETTIST AND DRAMATURGE: Bodies on the Line: The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike (world premiere, Oakland Symphony commission with support from the Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music and Saint Mary’s College of California (Frank J. Filippi Professorship in Performing Arts; Provost’s Research Grant; Faculty Development Fund; Office of Faculty Development Writers’ Retreat); with parts Prologue; On the Line; Company Town; Memo from GM/Wife’s Lament; The Demands; Letters Home: “Sittin’ Tight, Feelin’ Fine”; Well, Mr. Diary; Letters Home: “They Shut Off the Heat”; Bull’s Run; Battle Royal; Taking Chevy 4; Bitter for a Businessman; Still We Stand. Additonally, Melody Wilson, mezzo-soprano; Marc Molomot, tenor; Morgan Smith, baritone; Oakland Symphony Chorus Ash Walker, acting chorus director; Pacific Edge Voices Ash Walker, music director. NO/NO attendees received SWAG bags.