Title: E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E
Description: E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E is the libretto for the performance, by the Commons Choir, of E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E. The libretto is the genome for the choir's entirely free and primary phenotypic expression. The relationship between the two (libretto and performance) is, ultimately, indivisibility. E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E is an epic, wishful, investigative, town hall musical that calls upon a panoply of reparative tones, tunes and intentions to plead the case for a more empathetic economy, proposing, with Thomas Paine and Martin Luther King, money as everyone's. E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E has named its idiom re-english, positing that today's economic, ecological and inequity crises are direct consequents of the sonic and connotative qualities of the English language. E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E draws upon forms and phenomena as diverse as algorithmic procedure, neuroendocrinology, choral ode, field holler, breathing patterns, dead languages and lost grammatical modes, constitutional law, triple bottom line accounting, innate awareness, blessings, dispelling, outright bad-english and even poetry to manifest one vast amulet that can re-tune, detox and de-delude our tongue, imbuing it with heretofore unheard of inherences, moods, admixtures and admonishments.