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DEVELOPING AND PRODUCING ORIGINAL WORKS OF MUSIC-THEATRE,
FOSTERING THE GROWTH OF ARTISTS,
AND ENGAGING WITH THE COMMUNITY IN PARTNERSHIP
Changing the Conversation Through the Arts
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This Veterans Day, November 11, (previously Armistice Day,) join us in a music-theatre program in remembrance of ancestors and others lost to commemorate what was known as “the war to end all wars.”
Alliance member artists John Boulanger, Alan Naylor, and Cara Schaefer will transport audience members back over a hundred years, bringing to life a very different era of the nation’s history through the lens of one American family caught up in the war. Portraying noted essayist, biographer, and playwright John Jay Chapman, his wife, Elizabeth Astor Chapman, and son Victor, they reminisce about Victor’s service in the French Foreign Legion and as a WWI aviator.
The program features Victor’s letters home, interspersed with poetry and songs written during the “Great War.” Selections include the iconic “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae, and poems by other noted war poets including Wilfred Owen, Alan Seeger, and Siegfried Sassoon. You’ll hear American popular songs by George M. Cohan and others, settings of John McCrae’s famous title poem by Charles Ives and John Phillip Sousa, and a group of settings of A.E. Housman’s “A Shropshire Lad” poems by British composer George Butterworth, a British composer who died in the war.
We have launched the next phase of this project and will share musical numbers from our work-in-progress. No Story is more important than that of DC Emancipation
