In late 2015 I started designing Harmony & Hope. Like so many of us, I had been overwhelmed by the number of shootings in our country and felt that I needed to do something about it. Little did I know at that time that things would continue to get worse and that more p...
Healing is needed now more than ever...may the speeches and concerts from Harmony & Hope help to ease the pain in our hearts, remember the love of those who have been killed, and give us all hope for a future without violence.
CONCERT X: Isaura Mendes, the speaker before the 10th concert of the day,lost her sonBobby in 1995 when he was stabbed to death. Eleven years laterher son Matthew was shot and killed. Both were in their early 20s when they were killed. She also lost three of her nephew...
CONCERT XI: The 11th concert of the day started with a speech by Courtney Mark Grey, Director of Trauma Response and Recovery Boston Public Health Commission, and continued with music performed for both baritone and piano and viola and piano with baritone David Kravitz...
Harmony & Hope was designed as a day of music to ease the pain in our hearts, to remember the love of those who were killed, and to give us hope for a future without violence.
FROM CONCERT III: The 3rd concert of the day started with a speech by Arline I...
"I designed this event as a massive response to a major crisis in our society. Like so many of us, I have been overwhelmed by the number of shootings in our country and have felt that I wanted to do something about it. As music is my passion and profession, I decided t...
