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Featuring twenty one\nnew recordings, ranging from fresh arrangements of traditional folk tunes, pop\nsongs, and jazz standards to mainstays from the western classical repertoire,\nthe songs on the album bring a sense of community, identity, and purpose,\ncrossing boundaries and binding us together in thanks, consolation, and\nencouragement. This is music that tells stories, that marks occasions private\nand public, that gives voice to celebrations, remembrances, and all of life's\nmysteries. They are songs that pay tribute to champions of social justice like\nPaul Robeson and Violeta Parra and to the troubadours of our joy, imagination,\nand sorrow like Wu Tong, Francis Poulenc, and Benjamin Britten. 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It had long been their wish\nto explore this medium further, but they could never have imagined that the\ncatalyst would be a pandemic that fundamentally rearranged our ways of living.\n\"Songs of Comfort and Hope\" was conceived in April 2020 when people everywhere\nwere entering a dramatic new world, one in which we have been separated from\nour loved ones and many filled with fear and isolation. Featuring twenty one\nnew recordings, ranging from fresh arrangements of traditional folk tunes, pop\nsongs, and jazz standards to mainstays from the western classical repertoire,\nthe songs on the album bring a sense of community, identity, and purpose,\ncrossing boundaries and binding us together in thanks, consolation, and\nencouragement. This is music that tells stories, that marks occasions private\nand public, that gives voice to celebrations, remembrances, and all of life's\nmysteries. They are songs that pay tribute to champions of social justice like\nPaul Robeson and Violeta Parra and to the troubadours of our joy, imagination,\nand sorrow like Wu Tong, Francis Poulenc, and Benjamin Britten. They are\ncreations that, as Felix Mendelssohn once wrote, express thoughts that are\n\"not too indefinite to be put into words, but on the contrary, too definite.\"\nYo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott hope that the familiarity and reinvention contained\nin this music offers everyone some comfort and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\n \u003cul class=\"a\"\u003e\n \u003c\/ul\u003e"}