The Starbucks Chorus presents Street Requiem

Various artists and Starbucks Chorus

Sunday, May 1, 2016 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)

Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States

$29-$59

Kathleen McGuire / Andy Payne / Jonathon Welch — Street Requiem

Come experience for one night only a stage full of volunteer singers & musicians from the Pacific Northwest as they share their passion for music to help the homeless with the Seattle premiere of Street Requiem, a choral benefit concert for those living and dying on the streets! Street Requiem gives these souls a voice.

Street Requiem is a multi-movement cantata, scored for choirs, soloists, and chamber orchestras. The work is neither secular nor religious, is intended to be spiritual, and includes English, Latin, and African lyrics. It aims to bring a sense of peace, remembrance, action, and hope to communities struggling with homelessness, poverty, hate-crime, and street violence.

It is a new major Australian work composed & conceived in 2014 by Dr. Jonathon Welch AM and written in collaboration with Dr. Kathleen McGuire and Andy Payne. It premiered in Dallas and San Francisco in 2015 to rave reviews and has been selected as a semi-finalist in the professional choral composition division of The American Prize national nonprofit competitions in the performing arts.

This event is sponsored by The Starbucks Chorus Global Month of Service Project and includes over 25 local choral groups from the Puget Sound area. The Homeless Remembrance Project from the Women’s Housing Equity and Enhancement League (WHEEL) will begin the concert leading an acknowledgement & dedication to the homeless and the souls lost on the streets.

Ninety percent of the purchase price of the ticket will be distributed evenly among local nonprofits directly helping the homeless:
Sawhorse Revolution
Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC)
Pike Market Senior Center
Real Change
Seattle Housing and Resource Effort

Homelessness is a crisis and in every zip code in King County. We hope you feel as compelled as we do to demonstrate your compassion for our community by attending this concert.

This event is presented by The Starbucks Chorus and 25 choral organizations from the Pacific Northwest.

All seating is reserved.