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Title - Forgotten Voices: A Song Cycle for Voices & String
Artist - Kelly Hall-Tompkins

For those unaware, multi-award-winning violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins is the entrepreneurial spirit behind Music Kitchen, the pioneering project that brings top classical music and musicians into homeless shelters, sharing the inspirational, therapeutic, and uplifting power of music with those experiencing homelessness.

Founded in New York City, Music Kitchen has presented over 100 concerts to more than 30,000 homeless shelter clients coast to coast, including in Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Oakland, Rochester, and internationally in Paris, France.

According to the New York Times, “The concerts have an air of authenticity and directness that sometimes does not exist in concert halls.”

Forgotten Voices is a song cycle commissioned by Music Kitchen – Food for the Soul, with support from Carnegie Hall, comprising works by 15 of today’s foremost composers featuring evocative and poignant texts by homeless shelter clients that have provided a profound source of inspiration and reverence.

1. STEVE SANDBERG: Thank You (April 30, 2019 Cluster House) (4.21)
2. JEFFREY SCOTT: Für meinen Vater (January 29, 2019 Olivieri Center) (6.18)
3. ERROLLYN WALLEN: My Soul (August 1, 2019 Cluster House) (3.27)
4. JON GRIER: Save It in My Jewelry Box (July 31, 2019 Cluster House) (4.16)
5. ELLEN TAAFFE ZWILICH: Music Kitchen Interplay (September 30, 2019 Main Chance) (4.24)
6. COURTNEY BRYAN: You Made My Day (October 29, 2019 Olivieri Center) (3.29)
7. KELLY HALL-TOMPKINS: Gretchen’s Threads (March 23, 2019 Holy Trinity, HUG Program) (2.30)
8. JAMES LEE III: From My Heart (February 25, 2019 Olivieri Center) (5.32)
9. KEVIN PUTS: Bad Ass (January 7, 2020 Cluster House) (1.49)
10. KAMALA SANKARAM: Hooking In (May 20, 2020 via Zoom) (3.51)
11. GABRIEL KAHANE: All Is Quiet (February 19, 2020 Olivieri Center) (3.29)
12. CARLOS SIMON: A Wonderful Hearing (November 25, 2019, 52nd Street Women’s Center) (4.06)
13. ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN: These Strings (December 31, 2019, 52nd Street Women’s Center) (3.16)
14. BEATA MOON: At Peace (June 19, 2019 Cluster House) (3.05)
15. PAUL MORAVEC: Music Is Love (May 29, 2019 Main Chance) (3.09)
16. PAUL MORAVEC: Music Is Love (tutti reprise) (4.06)

Opening on Steve Sandberg’s aching yearn within Thank You and the hankering, yet quietly spirited hunger within Jeffery Scott’s Für meinen Vater, next up is the stoically-imbued My Soul (Errollyn Wallen), the flirtatious adamant Save It in My Jewelry Box (Jon Grier), Ellen Taafe Zwilich’s languishing Music Kitchen Interplay, and then comes Courtney Bryan’s joyously beholden You Made My Day, Kelly Hall-Tompkin’ reaching thirst within Gretchen’s Threads, and the James Lee III’s veritably ethereal From My Heart.

The simply heavenly recording continues onward with the vibrantly alert Bad Ass by Kevin Puts and the decadently-sculptured Hooking In (Kamala Sankaram), and they are in turn followed by Gabriel Kahane’s grandiosely dulcet All Is Quiet, Carlos Simon’s fluttering A Wonderful Hearing, the album rounding out on the embolden These Strings (Angélica Negrón), Beata Moon’s aptly-named work, At Peace, closing on a heartfelt pairing from Paul Moravec of Music Is Love and a tutti reprise of the same track.

Forgotten Voices premiered to a sold-out Carnegie Hall audience in March 2022 and inspired a short film that has won multiple awards at festivals around the globe, including Winner: Best Cause-Driven Film and Finalist: Best Director and Best Documentary at the Cannes World Film Festival, Winner: Best Short Film at the Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival, and Winner: Best Short Documentary at the Berlin Indie Film Festival.

Music Kitchen - Forgotten Voices - World Premiere at Carnegie Hall [Official Trailer

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