A multimedia concert with voices from Ellis Island

Project by Gabriele Vanoni, with Ensemble/Parallax (Peyman Farzinpour, Artistic Director) and Malo Lacroix (Video Art)

World Premiere

Tickets: $10; open seating

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Island of Peoples is a multimedia concert based on stories of immigrants coming to the United States and draws inspiration and material from the stories of the Ellis Island Oral Histories, a project of the Ellis Island Museum, that preserves and collect interviews of US immigrants who went through Ellis Island between 1900 and 1954. The concert includes original material obtained directly from actual immigrant interviews.

These interviews include amazing stories of struggle, pain and sadness, but also of joy, love, friendship and faith. In the opera, the stories are told and unfold intertwined around a few common traits: the longing for home, the perils of traveling for days, and the cultural, social and human uncertainties of the new world. The stories reveal common aspects that become a sort of collective memory, that reach and touch universal, human experiences that everyone can relate to: we are all “wanderers,” and to be an immigrant, to be eradicated, just makes this perception more acute.

Show presentation:

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2019
12:45 PM | AUDITORIUM, SECOND FLOOR
At the event:

Island of Peoples: Looking Back and Smiling Forward

With Diana Pardue, Chief, Museum Services Division, Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, and Gabriele Vanoni, Assistant Professor, Berklee College of Music, and Composer of Island of Peoples

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