{"id":997,"date":"2025-04-25T00:38:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T00:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/?p=997"},"modified":"2025-05-15T00:45:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T00:45:24","slug":"may-3-4-concord-chorale-performs-we-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/25\/may-3-4-concord-chorale-performs-we-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"May 3 &amp; 4: Concord Chorale Performs &#8220;We Exist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Concord Chorale will perform <em>We Exist<\/em> twice this weekend, in a program centered on kindness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Created with author <a href=\"https:\/\/naseemrakha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Naseem Rakha<\/a> in late 2017 after the violence in Charlottesville, <em>We Exist<\/em> (scored for chorus and orchestra) emerged  as a musical call to action. Its message is even more urgent today\u2014a call to embrace diversity, defend freedom, and affirm the dignity of all races, faiths, and genders. Love and equality begin with each of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday, May 3 at 7pm<br>Sunday, May 4 at 4pm<br>St. Paul&#8217;s Episcopal Church<br>21 Centre Street<br>Concord, NH<br><a href=\"https:\/\/concordchorale.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Copy-of-Concord-Chorale-Winter-Cheer-8.5-x-11-in.png-791x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-999\" srcset=\"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Copy-of-Concord-Chorale-Winter-Cheer-8.5-x-11-in.png-791x1024.png 791w, http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Copy-of-Concord-Chorale-Winter-Cheer-8.5-x-11-in.png-232x300.png 232w, http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Copy-of-Concord-Chorale-Winter-Cheer-8.5-x-11-in.png-1187x1536.png 1187w, http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Copy-of-Concord-Chorale-Winter-Cheer-8.5-x-11-in.png-300x388.png 300w, http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Copy-of-Concord-Chorale-Winter-Cheer-8.5-x-11-in.png-600x777.png 600w, http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Copy-of-Concord-Chorale-Winter-Cheer-8.5-x-11-in.png.png 1545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Concord Chorale will perform We Exist twice this weekend, in a program centered on kindness. Created with author Naseem Rakha in late 2017 after the violence in Charlottesville, We Exist (scored for chorus and orchestra) emerged as a musical call to action. Its message is even more urgent today\u2014a call to embrace diversity, defend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-performances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivercaplan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}