Songs for Peace featuring The Houston Ebony Opera Guild

Wednesday, March 28 at 7:30 p.m. The Rothko Chapel presents Songs for Peace featuring musicians from the Houston Ebony Opera Guild in a concert affiliated with the Music for Peace Project. The program will be dedicated to the theme of Peace with selections ranging from Marvin Hamlisch's One Song to Let there be peace on Earth. The event will feature Negro Spirituals and operatic pieces including duets from Don Giovanni, and will conclude with a medley comprised of songs from the 70's including Curtis Mayfield's People Get Ready, The Staple Singers I'll Take You There, and Stevie Wonder's Heaven Help Us All. Performers: Melissa Givens, soprano Joan Hubert, soprano Jason Oby, tenor Dorceal Duckens, bass John Cornelius II, piano The Houston Ebony Opera Guild is committed to the expansion of opportunities for participation in and exposure to opera, Traditional Negro Spirituals and other classical music genres. The Guild is acclaimed by audiences and critics for its performances of both concert music and staged opera. The Music for Peace Project is a global effort to fill the world with music as a call for peace. By coordinating a vast number of concerts worldwide between March 30 - April 1, 2007, The Music for Peace Project will bring popular and media attention to international peace efforts while building a global community of active, socially conscious artists. Dedicated to cultivating peace as both a means and an end, The Music for Peace Project creates a global celebration of peace and provides a voice for the vibrant community that believes in peaceful solutions for the future. Any musician can participate. Over the last three years, the Musicians' Alliance for Peace has sponsored over 350 concerts in 30 countries in the course of three 3-day weekends. This international, non-partisan call for peace was shared with audiences as diverse as the music itself. Music has the power to inspire compassion and foster understanding between cultures while deepening the bonds that form our communities. Together, all musicians participating in The Music for Peace Project are helping to create a global community of musicians that cannot be ignored. "Be the change you want to see in the world." –Gandhi. The Music for Peace Project: www.m4p.org