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Voices of Haiti in New York 2018 – December 13th – Last day
December, 13th 2018 – “Time to say goodbye” resonates inside the Madison Square Garden and it arrives to the 36 young choristers of the Voices of Haiti as a message of Maestro Bocelli, his family, friends and all over the 18.000 people in the audience to accompanies their way back to home.
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Voices of Haiti in New York 2018 – December 12th – Day 3
December, 12th 2018 – “Memories” is the word that marked yesterday for the Voices of Haiti. The 36 choristers spent the morning visiting the place of memory par excellence: Ground Zero. Many little fingers touched the inscriptions and the numerous names, with curiosity and respect and their eyes explored their surroundings from the top of the tower, taking in the power of the city.
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Voices of Haiti in New York 2018 – December 11th – Day 2
December, 11th 2018 – “Welcome” is the word of the day! It is the word that the over one hundred students part of the “Sing for Hope” said to the Voices of Haiti choristers at their entrance in auditorium. Yesterday morning it was the time to meet the “peers” of the “Greeley Middle School”, to share experiences, feelings and curiosities but mainly to share music.
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Voices of Haiti in New York 2018 – December 10th – Day 1
December, 10th 2018 – At 5am many little faces were peeping out the room doors, a mix of excitement and emotion made the first night of the Voices of Haiti short.
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Voices of Haiti in New York 2018 – December 9th – The Journey
December, 9th 2018 – It’s time to go. Time to put on their backpacks with their togas and leave for the next incredible destination: New York. The 36 young talented choristers left Port-au-Prince with a renewed enthusiasm in their hearts and with a new light in their eyes.
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“Voices of Haiti” in New York: a Christmas filled with opportunity and hope.
The talented young Haitian children – the stars of the music project created by the Andrea Bocelli Foundation and the Foundation St Luc Haiti – will sing alongside Maestro Bocelli on the famous Madison Square Garden’s stage on December 12th and 13th.
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The “Voices of Haiti” will also be featuring in Andrea Bocelli’s new album
The Choir composed of sixty Haitian children, the beneficiaries of the Andrea Bocelli Foundation” and “Fondation St Luc” project took part to the recording of the new album of unreleased songs “Sì” out on October 26th…
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Voices of Haiti in Miami
They have collected standing ovations everywhere, they have been the soundtrack of the “Lincoln Center Global Exchange”, they have sung at The United Nations for the royal family of Sweden, at the Teatro del Silenzio and for the Pope. Through their performances they have, once again, given evidence of how art can be a powerful instrument of cooperation, a tool for the development of one’s own potential…
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VOH featuring in Maestro Bocelli’s new CD
Music is the voice of the soul, its strength and beauty cam open minds and arouse a deep thinking ability. Art and culture are an integral part of human rights. With this conviction and in the respect of these principles, Andrea Bocelli Foundation with its local partner in Haiti Fondation Saint Luc conceived the ’Voices of Haiti” Project…
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Voices of Haiti in Miami 2017 – Day 3
Once the official commitments are over, it is time to discover Miami and devote ourselves to friendship. Friendship and esteem are precious gifts that make the choristers bond with each other, that link ABF and Saint Luc teams…..
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Voices of Haiti in Miami 2017 – Day 2
Today is the day! With choir robes ready in their backpacks and their fresh enthusiasm the “Voices of Haiti” choir reached the Port of Miami at 9am for the rehearsal of the concert. The choir alongside Maestro Bocelli have been invited to perform at the naming ceremony of the MSC Seaside ship, that will be operating a cruise around the Carribian islands starting on December 23rd….
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Voices of Haiti in Miami 2017 – Day 1
“Joyful is real only when it is shared” – the saying goes – and it is something that the Voices of Haiti (VOH) choir exudes during its first day in Miami. After breakfast, the bus drove the group through Downtown Miami to reach the University of Miami (UM) Frost School of Music…
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Voices of Haiti in Miami 2017 – The journey
Twenty-nine choir members of the ABF- FSL “Voices of Haiti” project arrived at the Miami airport with their wonderful smiles and their backpacks ready to take part in two important moments alongside founder Maestro Andrea Bocelli and the ABF: the inauguration ceremony of the MSC Seaside cruise ship and…
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Voices of Haiti in Italy 2017 – Day 10-11
Where is time, where has it gone, how comes it has already passed, this is something that many are asking for, children and adults, Haitians and Italians. ‘Yesterday’ they had arrived from Paris, now they are leaving for Paris from a very hot Rome, early in the morning…
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Voices of Haiti in Italy 2017 – Day 8-9
It is the dome consecrated to the first among the Apostles, to the first Pope and head of the Church: it dominates also from the terrace of the structure hosting the Haitian delegation; it stands out on the landscape and overlooks the whole scene…
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Voices of Haiti in Italy 2017 – Day 7
On the coast of Versilia, our children are dancing on the sand, they are running after the ball, they are following, eyes wide open, the magic of a magician; they are trying to paint on a long white canvas that is there just waiting for their creativity to blossom…
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Voices of Haiti in Italy 2017 – Day 6
«Stay hungry, stay foolish, because only those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world they really change it»… Hungry for dreams, for life and hope, foolish to the point of daring, without hesitation, faithful to one’s values…
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Voices of Haiti in Italy 2017 – Day 4-5
“You are beautiful … And you sing well!” Pope Francis thus addressed our sixty children. The general hearing was over, the twelve thousand pilgrims in the meantime continued to celebrate the Supreme Pontiff and to pack Paul VI Hall…
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Voices of Haiti in Italy 2017 – Day 3
At a quick pace, playful, though warmed by tropical temperatures, admired and filmed by cameras and cell phones, applauded and followed by the smile of anyone who has intercepted it, ABF and Fondation St. Luc journey continues. The Voices of Haiti’s Italian tour continues. Today, Florence: a city where time is declined in a very special way, perhaps because, in the ‘new Athens’ as dreamed by Lorenzo the Magnificent, the past and the future have always coexisted, rarely expressing a conflict…
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Voices of Haiti in Italy 2017 – Day 2
Now close your eyes and fall in love with these children. This is what said, Laura Biancalani, general manager of ABF, on stage at Lajatico, presenting the Italian debut of Voices of Haiti. The people from the home country of Andrea Bocelli were flooding the main square, set up for the occasion by Alberto Bartalini, the director of the Teatro del Silenzio…
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Voices of Haiti in Italy 2017 – Day 1
It is the day when the mosaic is reassembled, when the team meets again, and the group is completed. The Haitian representatives join the Italian ones and also those who have come from all over the world to offer their support. To summarize it in a word, this day of study and leisure, of curiosity and astonishment for the first ancient Italian wonders visited, sharing rest and food, would suffice an adverb: ‘together’…
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Voices of Haiti in Italy 2017 – Il viaggio
L’unica rivoluzione possibile, l’unica auspicabile, è quella interiore, perseguita attraverso l’istruzione, la cultura, l’arte. Arte che è tale, se è per il bene; arte che, con la sua forza pacifica, è il vero motore della società…
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Voices of Haiti in New York – Last day
The final rush. First a morning visit at the “Frank Sinatra School of the Arts,” founded by Tony Bennet, and then the last performance, on the Metropolitan Ballroom stage, at the Clinton Global Initiative…
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Voices of Haiti in New York – Day 5 and 6
Taking care of others and as a consequence making a difference in their lives. The will to take care of people, or lack thereof, divides the world into two kinds of people: those who are against this unbalance and try to understand what to do for others, and those who do not…
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Voices of Haiti in New York – Day 4
The United Nations General Assembly will soon reunite most of the heads of state of the world in the tall glass building where our young choir performed the Haitian national anthem just yesterday…
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Voices of Haiti in New York – Day 3
Seeds. This is how Andrea Bocelli described them, after infinite hugs at “Jazz at Lincoln Center”. In the rehearsal room, the children sang for him, and then he for them. A unique opportunity…
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“Voices of Haiti” in New York: in some of the world’s most prestigious forums, the debut of Andrea Bocelli Foundation’s choir
Guest of Global Exchange, the choir will perform alongside Andrea Bocelli also at United Nations, for the Clinton Foundation and for the royal family of Sweden. Education of artistic talent to overcome barriers is a the heart of ABF music project.
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Voices of Haiti in New York – Day 2
A real stage. And a huge stage at that! Radio City Music Hall has welcomes the young ABF and St. Luc singers. Behind them stands a 3-level orchestra, sorrounded by columns holding up screens…
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Voices of Haiti in New York – Day 1
They are finally here! For one week they will showcase their voices in New York, reminding the world through music that education, culture and art are essential in order to overcome challenges…
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A choir for Andrea Bocelli Foundation: “Voices of Haiti” will debut in new york along with its founder
When art overcomes all barriers: a week of great events, from the Lincoln Center to the United Nations, for sixty young Haitian choristers, in the new ABF music project
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A new ABF project, “Voices of Haiti”
Music is the soul’s voice, its strength and beauty open minds, and develop thoughts; art and culture are a human right. According to these principles, and acting on a land where our foundation is intrinsically recognized with particular force, after checking the irrepressible impact that such experiences have had in South America, ABF has launched a new project, conceiving and creating a choir called “Voices of Haiti“.
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