MUSIC

Bethany Collins: America: A Hymnal

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2023
7:00 PM

Society of Friends
15 Rutherford Place, Stuyvesant Square, Manhattan

Free
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Among multidisciplinary artist’s Bethany Collins’s output are some art books she calls
Hymnals, which trace iconic patriotic songs over the centuries, showing how their lyrics were changed at various times to make different (often repellant) uses of them. On of these Hymnals is devoted to “America” (“My country ‘tis of thee . . . .”). This musical presentation focuses on one version the song current during the Civil War, whose lyrics are presented in several different musical realizations. The singing (and realization) is by The Unsung, a local choral collective devoted to celebrating the Black experience.

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