WHY DO THE NATIONS
Stephen Powell, Baritone+Piano
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Release Date: SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
It’s easy to feel hopeless these days. Just look around.
The planet is warming, with consequences—fires, floods, and droughts—that verge on biblical. A microscopic menace with a name out of science fiction—COVID-19—brings our lives to a halt. Authoritarianism and hatred stomp across the globe, the footsteps echoing the ugliest moments of history.
Can music mend this madness?
Probably not.
Can music compel us to feel, impel us to think, inspire us to act?
That is the purpose of this album. WHY DO THE NATIONS is a collection of 27 art songs from 11 nations. These songs bear the imprint of their country of origin yet also speak to the universal themes that can heal a broken world - love and longing, of peace and possibility.
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