{"id":4375,"date":"2020-10-27T11:47:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T15:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vpropera.org\/site\/?p=4375"},"modified":"2020-11-29T13:09:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T17:09:41","slug":"voting-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vpropera.org\/site\/2020\/10\/27\/voting-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"VOTING RIGHTS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"VOTING RIGHTS from The Constitution, A Secular Oratorio by Benjamin Yarmolinsky\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CBNpe7UBQuE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any state, on account of age, by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax, on account of sex, on account ot race, on account of color, or of previous condition of servitude.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>VOTING RIGHTS from <em>The Constitution, A Secular Oratorio<\/em> by Benjamin Yarmolinsky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Text derived from the Voting Rights Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, specifically Amendment 15 (1870), Amendment 19 (1920), Amendment 24 (1964), and Amendment 26 (1971)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Featuring<br>Liz Lang and Michelle Trovato, sopranos<br>Judith Barnes and Linda Collazo, mezzo-sopranos<br>Andrew Egbuchiem, countertenor<br>Byron Singleton, tenor<br>Roland Burks and Blake Burroughs, bass-baritones<br>Felix Jarrar, piano<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter Szep, music director and video editor<br>Judith Barnes, artistic director\u00a0 <br><br>VOTING RIGHTS was commissioned by Vertical Player Repertory for the 2019 premiere of <em>The Constitution, A Secular Oratorio<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>VOTING RIGHTS is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).<\/em><br>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any state, on account of age, by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax, on account of sex, on account ot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vpropera.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vpropera.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vpropera.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vpropera.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vpropera.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4375"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vpropera.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4418,"href":"https:\/\/vpropera.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions\/4418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vpropera.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vpropera.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vpropera.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vpropera.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}