We the People

7:30pm / Saturday, October 12 / Covenant Presbyterian Church, Scranton

3:00pm / Sunday, October 13 / St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Wilkes-Barre

7:30pm / Friday, October 18 / St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Stroudsburg*

Join us for our 2024-2025 season opener! We the People explores themes of American democracy with works by composers such as Alice Parker, Gwyneth Walker, Erwin Chandler and Joan Szymko. In this election year, let pieces like Randall Thompson's The Testament of Freedom and Howard Hanson's Song of Democracy stir your patriotic heart as we acknowledge the gifts and responsibilities of the democratic process.

Settings of texts by Thomas Jefferson, Walt Whitman, and African American suffragist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper appear on this program, as do words from our country's Constitution, all illustrating the hard-won democratic freedoms that characterize the American ideal. 

From asserting independence from monarchy to asserting voting rights for all, our fall program will remind us of the struggles of the past, the challenges of the present, and the hope for the future that we all share. Come be inspired! 

Tickets available online or at the door:

• Adults: $15

• Seniors/WVIA members: $12

• Students free

*Thanks to our generous hosts at St. John's Church, admission to the concert on Friday,  Oct. 18 is free.  A freewill offering will be taken.