Amnesty International Group 11 44th Annual Benefit Concert
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About this Event
This is the 44th consecutive year that Group 11 of Amnesty International USA will present a benefit concert to support AIUSA’s activities defending human rights.The concert is on Sunday afternoon, December 8 at 3:00 PM at Christ and St. Stephens Church, 120 West 69th Street (between Broadway and Columbus Avenue).
The musical centerpiece of the program will be a piece called Human Rights written for chorus and jazz quartet by the French composer, Antoine Miannay. The text is based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. The music is beautiful and passionate with lyrical, rhythmic and bluesy qualities. The December 8th performance will be conducted by Claude Lévy and will be the second performance of this piece in the United States. Human Rights is a spirited and uplifting celebration of international human rights in music and words.
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