My Hands
Hello everyone from LAUSD Central High #9.
The piece you’ll be performing is a collaboration. The lyrics were taken from different poems, essays, conversations and letters written by people who live in one of the roughest areas of San Francisco. They live in the community housing development that Mercy Housing runs there, the same organization that is building a new affordable housing community here in LA.
To help you get started, there are five different audio files posted here. The first is a full mix of the song, with every part and all of the solos balanced. The other 4 are rehearsal mixes, one per part. For each part listed, the part you are learning is mixed to the right, and everything else is mixed in the other ear. You can take one earphone out and just hear your part, or take the other out and hear everything else. Hopefully this will help you get the pieces down in time for the performance.
Click on the link to listen, then click again on the “download” button to grab the file.
Good luck, and I can’t wait to hear it performed.
My Hands Are Lifting Up
My Hands Are Lifting Up – Full Mix
My Hands – Soprano
My Hands – Alto
My Hands – Tenor
My Hands – Bass
Copyright 2010 Michael A. Lee
Lyrics inspired by Voices of Our Own – Mothers, Daughters, and Elders of the Tenderloin Tell Their Stories © 2001 Nancy Deutsch. From My Window Books. www.frommywindowbooks.com.