sing it to the air, sing it to the ground, spill the wine, take that pearl
by Matthew Paul Olmos
A socio’political play featuring and inspired by the music of the band WAR.
The story reimagines the 1970 Los Angeles Chicano Moratorium, in which global majority communities march against the disproportionate number of brown and black lives being lost to war, while still battling day-to-day injustices in their own neighborhoods.
Set to WAR’s songs of community, peace, and protest, "sing it to the air…"...
A socio’political play featuring and inspired by the music of the band WAR.
The story reimagines the 1970 Los Angeles Chicano Moratorium, in which global majority communities march against the disproportionate number of brown and black lives being lost to war, while still battling day-to-day injustices in their own neighborhoods.
Set to WAR’s songs of community, peace, and protest, "sing it to the air…" explores the lives of those no longer willing to be treated as minority, while music brings them together in hope. Originally commissioned by BMG Music and WAR.
