Seattle Men's Chorus
JUNE 2017 PAUL CALDWELL ARTISTIC DIRECTOR JUNE 23 & 24 M C CAW HALL Holland America Line proudly supports SEATTLE MEN’S CHORUS & SEATTLE WOMEN’S CHORUS and their production of BETTE, BABS & BEYONCÉ FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Middle School. Their choral director a better place for us. Over the course of had asked us for musical mentorship. the program, six kids came out in public, He asked us to help him countermand to us and to their peers. the refrains of hate and division that fall The kids talked to us about the presence on the ears of his students every day. of bullying in their school. It’s horrifying, This was an invitation to do something really, the things they see and experience different, something bold, something every day. And it’s not just queer kids. really beautiful. It’s Jewish kids, Muslim kids, nerdy kids, So in February, I started going to the smart kids, and small kids. I’ve only been here a few months now, school every week. But I didn’t go alone. In December, I stood on stage at but that’s long enough to have some Forty singers from SMC and SWC took Benaroya Hall and told you that Seattle favorite memories: Jane Abbott Lighty off work to be there with me at 1:30 has become my home. We are family: and Pete-e Petersen walking me down every Thursday afternoon. These people, Seattle Men’s Chorus, Seattle Women’s the aisle for the Seattle Women’s Chorus OUR singers, requested PTO from their Chorus, me…and you.
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