Concert Program

America Will Be Tour: Kravis Center, W. Palm Beach, FL

November 2, 2025 6:30 PM

A Note from the Artistic Director

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

English and Spanish

800-273-8255

One morning in Asheville, NC, I was approached by a police officer while on my way to retrieve some things from my car. The officer stopped and questioned me, and he asked for my identification. After he dismissed me, I was left confused and embarrassed, and I struggled to figure out the reason why I was approached by the officer. I did not do anything wrong. It became obvious to me that it was because I am a man of color.

This type of incident occurs far too often in our society, and it has to stop. Based on that experience, I knew that I needed to do something. No more racism, no more exclusion, no more discrimination. I decided to do what I do best: make music. I decided to form a choir whose purpose is to increase awareness through music. After meeting every member of Tonality, I realized that I was not alone, that many others possess a passion for unity, for bringing people together.

Since its formation a short time ago, Tonality has received support from artists who also value diversity and social justice through their music. India Carney from U.S. Season 8 of The Voice says, “Tonality is going to broaden horizons for music and show a diverse array of faces for classical music as we know it.” Grant Gershon, Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, states, “Choral singing is about sharing our voices, our traditions, and our experiences. Tonality has the potential to bring the amazingly diverse voices, traditions, and experiences of Los Angelenos together in a powerful new way.”

Tonality, now a Grammy award-winning ensemble, has grown immensely since that first rehearsal on June, 6, 2016. The singers come from a variety of backgrounds, ethnicities and countries. They are professional singers from Los Angeles who care about the future of our country and our world, and we sing in unity to actively demonstrate the beauty of diversity.

We hope that this concert offers a safe space for those who are dealing with mental illness and friends and loved ones who support. While this concert speaks of challenges of mental health and suicide prevention, we also hope that this concert will serve as a reminder that each of you are loved, appreciated, and valued in our community. Thank you for coming and sharing your hearts with us.

Alexander Lloyd Blake
Executive/ Founding Artistic Director

Concert Program

Can You See

Music by:
Zanaida Robles
Text by:
Lyrics taken from protest signs

Oh, say say say say
Say say say say

Say say say say


Can you see, can you see,

Can you see, can you see,

Say, can you see, can you see,

Can you see, can you see,

Can you see, can you see,

By the dawn’s early light,

Dawn’s early light?

Love is love, 

Can you see, can you see,

Can you see, can you see,

Can you see, can you see,

Love is love,
Love is love, 

Black lives matter,

Black lives matter,

Black lives matter,

Matter.


Women’s rights are human rights,

no human is illegal.
Women’s rights are human rights,

no human is illegal.

No human is illegal.

No human is illegal.

No human is illegal.

Women’s rights are human rights.
Say, can you see, can you see,

Can you see, can you see,

Can you see, can you see,

By the dawn’s early light,

Science is real. Water is life.

Science is real. Water is life.

Science is real. Water is life.

Science is real. Water is life.

Science is real. Water is life.

Science is real. Water is life.

Love is love. Love is love.

Love is love. Love is love.

Love is love.

Kindness is ev’rything. Kindness is ev’rything.

Kindness is ev’rything. Kindness is ev’rything.

Ev’rything. Ev’rything.

Oh, say can you see

By the dawn’s early light?
Love is love.

Black lives matter.

Women’s rights are human rights.

Oh, say can you see

By the dawn’s early light?
No human is illegal.
Science is real.
Water is life.

Kindness is ev’rything.
Kindness is ev’rything.

Ev’rything, ev’rything.

Oh say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free

and the home of the brave?

In This House

Music by:
Cristian Larios
Text by:
Text by Cristian Larios and from the ‘Know and Exercise Your Rights’ presentation by Chicago Legal Protection Fund/Community Navigator Fund

Hmm…

If you are detained by ICE: Remain silent.

You have the right to not sign anything.

You have the right to call your attorney or emergency contact.

You have the right to call your consulate.

You have the right to find out your Alien Number.

Todos tenemos estos derechos.

(We all have those rights.)

Todos tenemos estos derechos.

(We all have those rights.)

Todos.
(All.)

This house was built on dreams,

This house was built on dreams,

And fear, and hope, and the unknown.

Unknown, unknown.

This house was built on love,

And tradition, and food.

In this house, we harbor “drug lords”
In this house, we harbor “drug lords”

and “rapist” And “illegals” and “aliens”

If ICE comes to your home,

do not open the door.

[In this house, we harbor tias (aunts),

and primos (cousins), and hermanas (sisters)]

You are NOT required to open the door

unless ICE has a warrant signed by a judge.

[In this house, we harbor tias (aunts),

and primos (cousins), and hermanas (sisters)]

Ask them to show you the warrant -
Slide it under the door or hold it up to the window.

[In this house, we harbor tias (aunts),

and primos (cousins), and hermanas (sisters)]

IF THEY TRY TO FORCE THE DOOR OPEN

Write down the agents’ badge numbers

and vehicles’ license plate numbers. 

[In this house, we harbor tias (aunts),

and primos (cousins), and hermanas (sisters)]

Ah…

In this house, in this house,
we harbor innovators,

and workers, and dreamers,

Dreamers, mm.

Dios te bendiga. Dios te bendiga.

Dios te bendiga. Dios te bendiga.

(God bless you)

mm

n’na’nn

Angelica Rowell, Kurt Tijamo, Vi Jordan, Sammy Avila, speakers

Make Peace

Music by:
David Lang
Text by:
David Lang

If you can make peace, make peace:

in the heavens, in us, in all the world.

Make peace.

A Lullaby

Music by:
Ryan Murphy
Text by:
Eugene Field

The stars are twinkling in the skies;

the earth is lost in slumbers deep.

So hush, my sweet, and close thine eyes,

and let me lull thy soul to sleep.

Compose thy dimpled hands to rest,

and like a little birdling lie secure within thy

cozy nest upon my loving mother breast,

and slumber to my lullaby.

So hushaby, hushaby,

hush my sweet and close thine eyes,

and slumber to my lullaby,

so hushaby, hushaby.

The moon is singing to a star

the little song I sing to you.

The father sun has strayed afar

as baby’s sire is straying too.

And so the loving mother moon

sings to the little star on high;

and as she sings, her gentle tune is borne to me,

and thus I croon for thee, my sweet, that

lullaby of hushaby, hushaby,

hush my sweet and close thine eyes,

and slumber to my lullaby,

so hushaby, hushaby.

There is a little one asleep

that does not hear his mother’s song;

but angel watchers as I weep

surround his grave the night-tide long.

And as I sing, my sweet, to you,

oh, would the lullaby I sing,

the same sweet lullaby he knew

while slumbering on this bosom too,

were borne to him on angel’s wing!

So hushaby, hushaby,

lullaby, lullaby, hushaby, hushaby,

lullaby.

Vi Jordan, Piano

Sing About It

Music by:
Moira Smiley
Text by:
Moira Smiley

It’s so sad, we don’t understand each other yet.

How can this be when we’ve been livin’ together

so long, so close to each other’s beauty?

It’s so sad, makes me feel so bad.

I can’t stand by anymore. Gonna sing about it.

Gonna sing it when I feel like crying,

when I’m uncomfortable and don’t know why yet,

when I am guilty of the laissez-faire,

my ignorance of you laid bare.

I’ll talk to you before I raise my hand,

so you can call on me to make a stand.

Am I responsible?

Are you responsible?

What are we responsible for?

I’m gonna look up from my own concerns,

reach across the chasms of what I never learned

So wide, so full of burning.

Your eyes are turning to me now saying,

“It’s time, it’s way past time

to step outside the echo chamber.

Stop pretending it’s alright.

Stop pretending this is not our fight.”

Molly Pease, soloist

New Collective Consciousness: 1. We Know

Music by:
Joseph Trapanese
Text by:
Andri Snœr Maganason

I. “We know”

Ok is the first Icelandic glacier

to lose its status as a glacier.

In the next 200 years,all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path.

This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done

Only you know if we did it.

Please Stay

Music by:
Jake Runestad
Text by:
Adapted from tweets using #IKeptLiving – expressions of hope from those who battle depression and chose to live.

No! Don’t go!

Don’t let your worst day be your last.

The storm is strong, but it will pass.

You think you can’t go on another day,

but please stay. Just stay.

Hope is real. Help is real.

You are breath, you are life,

you are beauty, you are light.

Your story is not over.

You are not a burden to anyone.

Please stay. Just stay.

Angelica Rowell, Soloist; Vi Jordan, Piano

Let Your True Self Sing

Music by:
Carlos Cordero
Text by:
Ryan Heller

Cold winds blow over my barren soul,

Scattered pieces of my life across broken time,

I am alone.

Surrounded by eternity

I hear a voice

Calling me:

Come back…

I am broken, yet whole.

Listen deeply,

Your true self sings

Throw open the door,

Come back to that voice,

Share that voice,

Your voice…

America Will Be!

Music by:
Joel Thompson
Text by:
Langston Hughes, Emma Lazarus, and students of Freedom High School Chorus

mm… oo…
oh  oo  oh  mm  ah  mm

Yo sueño de un nuevo amanecer… 

(Spanish: I dream of a new dawn)

Who are you that mumbles in the dark?

Who are you that draws your veil across the stars?

Mage anagatha sinduwa…

(Sindhala: I sing for the future)

Umaasa ako no may pagbabago

(Filipino: I hope there is a change)

‘Atamanaa ‘an albashar yatealam an yu hib

(Arabic: I hope that people can learn to love)

Eu canto porque estou livre

(Portuguese: I sing because I am free)

I’m the one who dreamt a dream

while still a serf of kings,

A dream so strong, so brave,

so true that even yet it sings,
even yet it sings,

mm ah

Umaasa aka no may pagbabago…
(I hope there is change.)

Mage anagatha sinduwa…
(I sing for the future.)

‘Atamanaa ‘an albashar yatealam an yu hib…
(I hope that people can learn to love.)

Eu canto porque estou livre.
(I sing because I am free.)

To build a homeland of the free.
Free?
Oo…

Give me your tired,

Wŏ mèngxiăngzhe měihăo de wèilái

(Mandarin: I dream of a better future)

Give me your poor.

Seigi wo motomete

(Japanese: I hope for justice)

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

Ich singe für eine Flucht aus der Welt

(German: I sing for an escape from the world)

Give me the wretched refuse

of your teeming shore.

Còn uoć mong hoà binh

(Vietnamese: I dream of peace)

Mwen chante pou lapè sou Latè

(Haitian Creole: I sing for peace)

Send these to me! Send these to me!

Send these to me!

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

ah

For all the songs we’ve sung,

And all the dreams we’ve dreamed,

America was never America to me,

and yet, and yet I swear, and yet I swear:

America will be!

Hannah Abrahim and Vi Jordan, soloists

Soñar es Desear (A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes)

Music by:
Mack David, Al Hoffman, Jerry Livingston
Text by:
Spanish version by Edmundo Santos

Soñar es desear la dicha (To dream is to wish for joy)
En el porvenir (in the future)
Lo que el corazón anhela (What the heart longs for)
Se sueña y se suele vivir. (it dreams and it’s used to living.)

Si amor es el bien deseado (If love is well-desired)
En dulces sueños llegará (it will come in sweet dreams)

No importa cuan dificil sea. (It doesn’t matter how difficult it is)

En tanto tú lo creas (as soon as you belive it,)

Se hará realidad tu soñar. (your dreaming will be your reality.)

Arranged by Derric Johnson

Performers

Soprano

  • Hannah Abrahim
  • Molly Pease
  • Vi Jordan

Alto

  • Miriam Adhanom
  • Hannah Rose Lewis
  • Angelica Rowell

Tenor

  • Sammy Avila
  • Isaiah Chacon
  • Josh Munnell

Bass

  • Antonio Fernandez
  • Aaron Jung
  • Kurt Tijamo

Accompanist

  • Vi Jordan

ASL Interpreter

  • Amy Hair

Special Thanks

Tonality Board of Directors

  • Dr. Alexander Lloyd Blake, Executive/Founding Director
  • Dr. David Connors, Chairperson
  • Caroline McKenzie, Vice-Chairperson
  • Joe Trapanese, Secretary
  • Dr. Kimberly Bradshaw, Treasurer
  • Edward Enriquez-Cohen
  • Roman GianArthur
  • Kelci Hahn
  • Ahmed Khater
  • David Morales
  • Julie Smith
  • Anji Tan
  • Daniel Tapetillo

Honorary Board Members

  • Michael Abels
  • Kris Bowers
  • Lara Downes
  • Dr. Melissa Dunphy
  • Nikky Finney
  • Scott Hoying
  • Brian Lauritzen
  • Kevin “K.O.” Olusola
  • Joel Thompson

Advisory Board Members

  • Dr. Derrell Acon
  • Stacy Brightman
  • Branden Chapman
  • Melissa Denton
  • Kristy Edmonds
  • Ted Hearne
  • Daniel Hurlin
  • Stu Marks
  • Luke McEndarfer
  • Thomas Mikusz
  • Jen Rogers
  • Patrick Scott
  • Sara Scott
  • Dr. Tram Sparks
  • Leslie Thomas
  • Booker White

We Sincerely Thank:

  • Emily LaSalle, Director of Operations
  • Alex Morales, Vocalist Operations Manager
  • Bea Irwin, Tonality Intern
  • Ninette Ayala, Director of Strategic Partnerships
  • Lisa Baxter, Development Director
  • Andrew Glick, David Lieberman Artist's Representatives (www.dlartists.com)
  • David Lieberman, David Lieberman Artist's Representatives (www.dlartists.com)
  • Gregory Ram, Technical Director, Kravis Center
  • Melinda Gallant, Production Manager, Kravis Center
  • Madi Fernandez, Education Coordinator, Kravis Center

Acknowledgments

2025 Supporters of Tonality

  • California Arts Council
  • California Community Foundation LA Arts Recovery Fund
  • California Impact Grant
  • City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
  • Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture Organizational Grant
  • Michael and Irene Ross Endowment of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles
  • National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
  • Tejemos Foundation

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