Premiere - A More Perfect Union: Repeal of Prohibition

“A MORE PERFECT UNION: Musical Reflections on Five Amendments to the U.S. Constitution” will present concerts in months prior to America's 250th, interpreting constitutional amendments through the lens of contemporary music. REPEAL OF PROHIBITION (a musical bar-crawl)

Thomas Whitman – A Hummingbird Flies to Mars* [premiere] *In 1930, Texas Senator Morris Sheppard famously said, “There is as much chance of repealing the 18th Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail.”

Kile Smith – In the Ratskeller (German drinking songs) [premiere]

Nina Siniakova – Tsiache vada u yarok (Water Runs into a Gully) (Belorusian drinking song) [premiere]

Shinjoo Cho – Life is a Sh*tshow (Korean drinking song) [premiere]

Susan Watts – Klezmer/Jewish drinking song [premiere]

Robert Maggio – I Saw A Skull (Sicilian drinking song) [premiere]

Darin Kelly – The Thirsty Irishman [premiere]