Name: Empowerment Through Music Concert 2023
Start: 2023-03-04T19:00:00
Location: Cornell University

Cornell University Chorus

How do we empower ourselves and others when we are frustrated with an increasingly bleak reality? How do we continue to believe in love and care when inhuman acts of violence and greed drown out hope? The Cornell Chorus’ 2023 Empowerment through Music event centers around a recently premiered project: “Freedom on the Move, Songs in Flight.” Basing their music on the Cornell-founded “Freedom on the Move” database (the largest crowdsourced database of fugitive slave advertisements in North America), composers and performers including Shawn Okpebholo, Mason Bynes, Tsitsi Ella Jaji, Rhiannon Giddens, and more collaborated to weave narratives from the source material to sound out liberation and re-humanization of people escaping enslavement.