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A large community is developing around award-winning composer Brent Michael Davids’ new work, SINGING FOR WATER. Through choral music, we hope to connect singers across the globe in solidarity to celebrate life and the powerful impact of water on our ability to live.
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Lend your voice to indigenous water protectors in the
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Human influence on global climate change requires worldwide solidarity and response. This need is seen profoundly in the Native American struggle against the building of antiquated oil pipelines across treaty-protected lands that threaten to contaminate crucial sources of fresh drinking water. The indigenous people are fighting on everyone’s behalf.
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Add your voice, be part of the change, join a larger community of voices!
Using Native American words, sounds and spirit, Davids hopes to provide a conduit between those of us around the globe and the people who have committed themselves to protecting the planet. Davids, a Mohican composer, writes, “The purpose of the new work is to give all people a chance to become allies with those protecting the water, and to sing lyrics that are the voice of Native Americans—to join the movement with an ever growing chorus of support.” The lyrics are adapted from the living voices of Native American Water Protectors.
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SINGING FOR WATER is accessible to the most novice of ensembles due to its unique layered musical structure, while at the same time providing a rewarding challenge to more advanced choruses.
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SINGING FOR WATER is for all people, to celebrate what human beings can do for one another, and to challenge the dangerous power that toxic entities can have on our planet, our water, and our lives.
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Will you join us?
PLAN TO SING THE WORK WITH YOUR GROUP! — Commit to a performance! Send us a video of your chorus performing it for the collaborative viral video project. The music is available at the Singing For Water website. Please visit http://singing4water.weebly.com/
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INVITE YOUR NEIGHBORS! — Invite your Native American neighbors to join your performance by contacting the local tribal offices (https://www.bia.gov/tribalmap/DataDotGovSamples/tld_map.html). We’ll help you ([email protected])!
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SPONSOR A PERFORMANCE! — Keeping with the Native American tradition of giving and receiving gifts, the cost for the sheet music does not go beyond sustaining the publication of the music itself; no net profits are collected for the composer, lyricist or publisher. However, choruses might need your kind assistance if you can give.
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DOWNLOAD THE ONE SHEET — Print and pass out the One Sheet to interested singers!
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