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Cantare singers fete U.S. 250th anniversary, call for freedom in Lafayette concert
East Bay choral organization Cantare’s season finale concert on Saturday in Lafayette, called “Until All of Us Are Free,” is deliberately titled.   Cantare Artistic Director David Morales and Director of Children’s and Youth Choirs Julie Haydon decided to close the season with a salute to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, but with a realistic spin.  “We wanted to recognize there’s a part of our history and a part of belonging,” Morales says, but […] The post Cantare singers fete U.S. 250th anniversary, call for freedom in Lafayette concert appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, Cantare singers fete U.S. 250th anniversary, call for freedom in Lafayette concert, East Bay choral organization Cantare’s season finale concert on Saturday in Lafayette, called “Until All of Us Are Free,” is deliberately titled. Cantare Artistic Director David Morales and Director of Children’s and Youth Choirs Julie Haydon decided to close the season with a salute to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, but with a realistic spin. “We wanted to recognize there’s a part of our history and a part of belonging,” Morales says, but […] The post Cantare singers fete U.S. 250th anniversary, call for freedom in Lafayette concert appeared first on Local News Matters .
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