VocalEssence Chorus, VocalEssence Singers of This Age, Casey Rafn, piano, Kate Brinkert, Maria Coughlan, Emma Jirele Sandhurst, soloists

Who are you that rubles in the dark
and who are you that draws your veils across the stars?
I’m the one who dreamt a dream while still a serf of kings
A dream so strong, so brave, so true that even yet it sings.
To build a homeland of the free.
For all the songs we’ve sung,
and all the dreams we’ve dreamed,
America was never America to me,
and yet I swear: America will be!
—Adapted from Let America Be America Again
by Langston Hughes
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breath free,
give me the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these to me!
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
—Adapted from The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus