BLACK LIVES MATTER

Concord Chorale joins with all who are outraged by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police officers. We support the thousands of Americans all over our country who are peacefully protesting this and other wrongful deaths of Black Americans in police custody, and decry the racial inequities in our country. We intend to listen and educate ourselves, to understand and recognize how we are complicit in the current system, and make a choice to do better.

Here are words we had hoped to sing this spring (from Adrienne Albert’s A Choral Quilt of Hope), which were adapted by Susan Suntree from the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948):

Recognition of the dignity of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom,
justice and peace in the world, which we proclaim as the greatest hope of everyone, everywhere.

We look forward to the day when we can stand shoulder to shoulder again, and express our feelings of grief, anger, and love through the common language of choral singing.

– Board and Music Director, Concord Chorale, Inc.