Sing for Hope, an artists’ peace corps that mobilizes professional artists in volunteer service to benefit communities in need, presents A Musical Celebration featuring Michael Baitzer, Richard Cox, and Holli Harrison. This benefit concert brings awareness and funding to Metropolitan Ministries. The mission of The Metropolitan Ministries is to receive with dignity and respect all who come for assistance by providing the emotional, spiritual, and physical help needed. This includes providing emergency assistance with rent, utilities, prescription medication, gasoline and transportation, and food.
A Musical Celebration will be held at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, located at 305 West Seventh Street (at Pine Street) in Chattanooga, at 7:00 PM on Friday, February 19, 2010. Inspired by a belief in the transformative power of the arts, the musicians performing in this concert will donate their time and tremendous talent so that all funds raised will contribute directly to Metropolitan Ministries’ vital service programs.
Pianist Michael Baitzer, who has served on the faculty of The Juilliard School, Aspen School of Music and the coaching staff of Washington National Opera, Central City Opera, and Spoleto Festival USA, will join Chattanooga natives and rising opera stars, Tenor Richard Cox (Metropolitan Opera, LA Opera, Teatro Municpal de Santiago, Oper Frankfurt, Glimmerglass Opera, Semper Oper) and Soprano Holli Harrison (Metropolitan Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Pittsburgh Opera) in a special program featuring arias, songs, and duets by Beethoven, Mozart, Bernstein, and more!
Concert admission is a fully tax-deductable donation of $25. All other donations are welcome and will fund Metropolitan Ministries’ ongoing homelessness prevention efforts and initiatives.
Metropolitan Ministries is a non-profit organization that provides emergency assistance to clients in the greater Chattanooga area.
For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact Rebecca Whelchel at 423.624.9654, rwhelchel@comcast.net .
To purchase tickets, please contact Janice Howard at 423.838.2013.
About Sing for Hope
"What Sing for Hope does is wonderfully simple. It maintains a roster of compassionate, world-class artists who donate time and talent to the humanitarian causes that inspire them."
- Dr. Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Sing for Hope Board Member
Founded by opera singers with a desire to lift their voices for social change, Sing for Hope is a non-profit organization that mobilizes more than 600 professional artists – from classical musicians to photographers to Broadway performers – in volunteer service to benefit communities in need. An “artists’ peace corps,” Sing for Hope provides three programs: Informance Arts (dynamic arts and leadership education for underserved children), Healing Arts (in-hospital performances and workshops that complement the
healing process), and Gala Arts (benefit concerts that raise awareness and funds for humanitarian causes). Each Sing for Hope project is defined by the volunteerism of professional artists and our belief in the transformative power of the arts. Sing for Hope (www.singforhope.org) is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
