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An AIDS Quilt Songbook: Sing for Hope

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  1. Across the Sea

    by Joyce DiDonato

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  2. Autumn

    by Noah Stewart

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  3. Run Away

    by Nicole Cabell

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  4. Ordinary

    by Michael Slattery

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  5. No Giggly Time

    by Monica Yunus

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  6. What lips my lips have kissed: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed

    by Sharon Stone

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  7. Hold My Hand

    by Matthew Polenzani

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  8. Atripla!: Atripla!

    by Jamie Barton

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  9. Her Final Show

    by Anthony Dean Griffey

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  10. Hold On

    by Susanna Phillips

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  11. Morning Lullaby

    by Lester Lynch

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  12. Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me - Look Down Fair Moon

    by Ansel Elgort

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  13. Away, But Not Far Away

    by Monica Yunus

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  14. Retro

    by Daniel Okulitch

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  15. Union

    by Isabel Leonard

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  16. The Far Shore

    by Sean Panikkar

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  17. Shadow of the Blues: No. 2, Litany

    by Sasha Cooke

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  18. Everyone Sang

    by Sharon Stone

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  19. One Child

    by Melody Moore

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  20. Zero Plus Anything

    by Keith Phares

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  21. Let It Go

    by Adrienne Danrich

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  22. 4 Dickinson Songs: No. 4, If I?

    by Randall Scarlata

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  23. At Last

    by Camille Zamora

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Album description

An all-star cast of renowned singers and instrumentalists comes together on one CD to sing for hope and in the cause of supporting AIDS research: Joyce DiDonato, Yo-Yo Ma, Jamie Barton, Noah Stewart, Susanna Phillips, Sean Panikkar, Matthew Polenzani, Anthony Dean Griffey, Monica Yunus, Camille Zamora, Isabel Leonard, Randall Scarlata and many more. Actors Sharon Stone ("Casino", "Basic Instinct") and Ansel Elgort ("The Fault In Our Stars") contribute readings of poetry. All profits from the sale of this album will go to amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. This CD features new songs by established and emerging American composers, many specially commissioned to create a global musical portrait of AIDS today.

Album Reviews

"Powerful moments include mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and pianist John Musto voicing Musto's now-iconic anthem "Litany," on a short poem by Langston Hughes ("Gather up, In the arms of your pity, The sick, the depraved, the desperate, the tired, All the scum of our weary city") and Jamie Barton's stupendous yet easy-going delivery of Eric Reda's 2008 "Atripla!" Ken Merrill is the superb pianist for this virtuosic setting of a pharmaceutical pamphlet and Barton's rich voice, wondrous high notes and immaculate diction detail a hilarious - and at the same time horrifying - list of the drug's side effects." -Judith Malafronte, Opera News, April 2015