"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." ~Leonard Bernstein 

We stand together in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in the black community. We hope that our heartfelt message is heard––we’re calling for justice and equality for black lives.

But we can’t sing together for a while yet. Dammit! (The particularly cruel irony has not been lost on us that one of the most dangerous things we can do right now is sing together.)

But we can collaborate together, from home, to bring you some of our favorite quotes from LGBTQ+ musicians! Our first quote, about living in violent times, from Leonard Bernstein, is already special to our singers, since we sang a setting of it in our Lenny & Friends concerts in 2018.

We hope you enjoy this Choral Collage, and we hope you’ll be looking forward to the next one!
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