ABOUT
On May 10, join us as we continue our year of musical resistance with the next installment in the PROTESTRA 2025 series, A Concert for the 99%.
The concert will protest the outsized influence that corporations and the billionaire class hold over the U.S. government and call on elected officials to work for the American people. We will donate a portion of ticket proceeds to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Foundation in support of its efforts to defend the civil rights of those most vulnerable to government overreach.
Those unable to attend the performance can still donate to the ACLU Foundation through the ticketing page.
PROGRAM
Ludwig van Beethoven | Overture to Egmont
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor | Violin Concerto in G minor
Igor Stravinsky | Petrushka
Music Director Michelle Rofrano will lead the ensemble in a program that explores themes of resistance, workers’ rights, and government corruption. Beethoven’s fiery Overture to Egmont captures the spirit of triumph over oppression and taking a stand for a noble cause. Soloist Reuben Kebede makes his PROTESTRA debut with Coleridge-Taylor’s stunning Violin Concerto in G minor, a nod to the Coleridge-Taylor family’s fight for stronger protections and fair compensation for composers. The concert’s finale transforms Petrushka, Stravinsky’s ballet about a Russian puppet master and his puppets, into a multidisciplinary performance involving live dance and video projection that serves as a timely critique of the outsized role the 1% plays—and has always played—in American politics and public policy formation.
May 10, 2025 @ 2:00 PM
St. Paul and St. Andrew United Methodist Church