(applause) - Hello, and welcome to the live audience taping of Stage, here at TPT PBS studios.

Tonight we're excited to present two wonderful groups.

Up first, we have a wonderful piece called "Angels Sang to Me" performed tonight by soprano Maria Jette and a string quartet.

After that we're pleased to welcome the vocal improvisation group Give Get Sistet (light piano music) (soft jazz music) Tonight's performance is a partnership with the Schubert Club.

One of the nation's oldest arts organizations.

It first opened its doors in 1893 and since then has welcomed some of the world's finest recital soloists and ensembles through the Twin Cities.

It also celebrates the superb talent in our own music community through performances museum programming and education.

In partnership with the Schubert Club we are honored to first welcome soprano Maria Jette and a string quartet to present a work called "Angels Sang to Me".

This piece by AJ Isaacson-Zvidzwa aims to ring awareness and lower stigma with mental illness.

Please welcome this performance of "Angels Sang to Me".

(dramatic string music begins) (high pitched eerie viola playing) ♪ While I was fearing it, it came ♪ ♪ But came with less of fear ♪ ♪ Because that fearing it so long ♪ ♪ Had almost made it dear ♪ ♪ There is a fitting a dismay ♪ ♪ A fitting a despair ♪ ♪ 'Tis harder knowing it is due ♪ ♪ Than knowing it is here ♪ ♪ The trying on the utmost ♪ ♪ The morning it is new ♪ ♪ Is terribler than wearing it ♪ ♪ A whole existence through ♪ It is difficult to put into words what I suffered.

- [Musician] Suffered.

- [Musician] Suffered.

- [Musician] Suffered.

- [Musician] Suffered.

- The longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots.

(chilling chords playing) The dreadful sense of being alone in an empty universe.

(ominous chords playing) The agonies that thrilled through me as if the blood were running ice cold in my veins.

The disgust with living, the impossibility of dying.

- [Musician] Living.

- [Musician] Dying.

- [Musician] Living.

- [Musician] Dying.

- The disgust with living, the impossibility of dying!

- [Musician] Living.

- [Musician] Dying.

- [Musician] Living.

- [Musician] Dying.

(shrill notes playing) - I had stopped composing.

My mind seemed to become feebler as my feelings grew more intense.

I did nothing.

- [Musician] Nothing.

- [Musician] Nothing.

- [Musician] Nothing.

- [Musician] Nothing (ominous chords playing) - One power was left to me to suffer.

- [Musician] Suffer.

- [Musician] Suffer.

- [Musician] Suffer.

- [Musician] Suffer.

- [Musician] Suffer.

- Suffer.

(anxious music playing) I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, ♪ I felt a clearing in my mind ♪ ♪ As if my brain had split ♪ (dire chords playing) ♪ I tried to match it ♪ ♪ Seam by seam ♪ ♪ But could not make them fit ♪ (music quickening) ♪ The thought behind I strove to join ♪ ♪ Unto the thought before ♪ ♪ But sequence raveled out of sound ♪ ♪ Like balls upon the floor ♪ (gentle piano music) - AJ, thank you for chatting with me tonight.

- Yeah, thank you so much for having me.

- How does it feel to hear your piece performed again?

- It's been an amazing journey with this piece.

Having the fantastic musicians bring it to life again, over and over again.

And just to hear the words sung by Maria, who is fantastic.

I don't even have words to describe what I feel.

- It was really powerful.

Thank you for, for sharing that with us.

How did this partnership with these musicians start?

- It started when I sent Maria an email saying, "Hey Maria, I'm writing this piece.

I'd love for you to sing it."

And she ignored it.

(light laughter) Then Randall Davidson, who is a mutual friend and my teacher sent her an email saying, "Hey Maria, this is a piece you don't wanna miss out on."

So she agreed to a rehearsal and the rest is history.

- You've said that the piece is kind of like reading your diary.

- [AJ] Yes.

- Can you tell me more about that?

- You know, when I started this piece I didn't realize how emotional it would be for me to have this piece premiered.

There is the line that says "Dear diary I'm having hallucinations and I'm feeling really scared and alone."

which actually came from my diary that I wrote when I was, it was in Madison in grad school at the time.

And I had a major psychotic episode.

And so this piece using writings by other people as well as myself, chronicles my journey through that psychotic episode, back into health again.

- Wow, so some of the text was from famous poets and musicians.

- [AJ] Yes.

- And then some of the texts was your own.

- [AJ] Correct.

- Tell me more about how you decided to weave those different parts in.

- This whole thing conceptualized.

When I read the poem by Emily Dickinson that's titled "Alone, I Cannot Be".

And the text is, "Alone, I cannot be for hosts do visit me."

And then it goes on to say, "The going is not, because they've never gone."

And I read that and I was like, "Wow that sounds exactly like my hallucinations."

(chipper music begins) ♪ I'm nobody who are you ♪ ♪ Are you nobody too ♪ ♪ Then there's a pair of us ♪ ♪ Don't tell they'd banish us you know ♪ ♪ I'm nobody ♪ ♪ Who are you ♪ - Nobody ♪ Are you nobody too ♪ - Nobody, Nobody ♪ I'm nobody, nobody ♪ ♪ Nobody Nobody nobody ♪ ♪ Nobody ♪ ♪ Nobody, who are you ♪ (chipper music continues) ♪ Nobody ♪ ♪ Nobody ♪ ♪ Nobody ♪ ♪ Nobody ♪ ♪ Nobody ♪ ♪ Nobody ♪ ♪ How dreary to be somebody ♪ ♪ How public, like a frog ♪ - Nobody, nobody, nobody ♪ To tell your name ♪ ♪ The live long day ♪ ♪ To an admiring bog ♪ ♪ Nobody ♪ ♪ Nobody ♪ ♪ Nobody ♪ ♪ Nobody ♪ ♪ Nobody ♪ ♪ Nobody nobody ♪ (excitable music begins) Some found him excitable and talkative during this period.

But since the talk was always brilliant and very often flattering, they could see no reason to think of Lowell as ill.

Indeed, he was behaving just as some of them hoped a famous poet would behave.

(excitable music continues) When Lowell's wife became convinced that Lowell was indeed sick.

Her version of Lowell was not theirs.

Even when they were discussing the same symptoms, what to her was mad was to them another mark of Lowell's genius.

(cheerful music begins) ♪ Little fly ♪ ♪ Thy summer's play ♪ ♪ My thoughtless hand ♪ ♪ Has brush'd away ♪ ♪ Am not I ♪ ♪ A fly like thee ♪ ♪ Or art not thou ♪ ♪ A man like me ♪ ♪ For I dance ♪ ♪ And drink and sing ♪ ♪ Til some blind hand ♪ ♪ Shall brush my wing ♪ ♪ If thought is life ♪ ♪ And strength and breath ♪ ♪ And the want ♪ ♪ Of thought is death ♪ ♪ Then am I ♪ ♪ A happy fly ♪ ♪ If I live ♪ ♪ Or if I die ♪ (cheerful music continues) (simultaneous hand clap) (buzzing) (clapping) Damn fly - [Musician] What fly?

- Don't you hear it?

- [Musician] No.

- Dear diary, I have been having hallucinations and I'm feeling really scared and alone.

- [Musician] Be still.

- God, is that you?

- [Musician] Yes my child.

- I need help.

- [Musician] Excuse me.

Who are you talking to?

- [Musician] Be still my child.

- Don't you hear that?

- [Musician] I don't hear anything.

- Don't you hear God's voice?

God is speaking to me.

I hear God!

- [Musicians] Die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die.

- What?

- [Musicians] Die, die, die, die, - God is that you?

- die, die, die, die, die, - God where are you?

- die, die, die, die, die, - Make this stop!

- die, die, die, die, die, - [Musicians] Terrible, scary, whisper, terrifying, stifling intoxicating, the beast, heavenly, underachieving, (cacophonous noises) - Leave me alone!

- [Musicians] Alone I cannot be - I cannot be I cannot be - Alone - [Musician] Cannot - [Musician] Alone - Alone - I cannot be - [Musician] Alone - I cannot be - Alone - [Musician] Cannot Be - Alone - Alone - I cannot be - [Musician] Alone.

(ghostly whispers) - Leave me alone.

♪ Alone I cannot be ♪ ♪ For hosts do visit me ♪ ♪ Recordless company ♪ ♪ Who baffle Key ♪ - [Musician] Baffle baffle, baffle baffle, - [Musician] Is it, ♪ Alone I cannot be ♪ ♪ For hosts do visit me ♪ ♪ Recordless company ♪ ♪ Who baffle Key ♪ - [Musician] Alone!

♪ They have no robes nor names ♪ ♪ No almanacs nor climes ♪ ♪ But general homes ♪ - [Musician] Robes, names, - [Musician] Almanacs!

♪ Like gnomes ♪ - [Musician] Gnomes!

- [Musician] Gnomes.

- [Musician] Gnomes!

♪ Their coming may be known ♪ ♪ By couriers within ♪ ♪ Their going is not ♪ ♪ For they've never gone ♪ ♪ Never gone ♪ - [Musician] Never.

- [Musician] Gone.

♪ Never gone ♪ - [Musician] Alone.

- [Musician] I cannot be.

- I had an attack.

(suspenseful chord playing) - [Musician] I had an attack.

- [Musician] I had an attack.

- [Musician] I had an attack.

- [Musician] I had an attack - I had an attack of pathological enthusiasm.

The night before I ran about the streets crying out against devils!

- [Musician] Devils!

- Devils!

- Devils.

- Devils!

(suspenseful strumming continues) I believed I could stop cars.

(mysterious chords playing) I believed I could stop cars.

I believed I could stop cars and paralyze their forces.

I believed I could stop cars and paralyze their forces by merely standing in the middle of the highway with my arms spread.

(tense chords playing) I suspected I was a reincarnation of the Holy Ghost.

- [Musician] Holy Ghost.

- Holy Ghost.

- Holy Ghost.

- I suspected I was a reincarnation of the Holy Ghost and had become homicidally hallucinated.

(light piano music) - Something the instrumentalists shared with me was that the strings were kind of speaking some of the things that you heard.

I found that a really powerful and kind of eerie like the moment with The Fly, you know and just some of the things they were saying were so dark.

How did you, I mean, how did, how do you think about that when you're writing the instrumentation for a piece, that was crazy!

- This was very hard to notate.

- Yeah.

- You should have seen the first rehearsal.

It was difficult, but I had this idea in my head of how I wanted it to sound.

And the hardest movement for me to write was the one where Maria is singing and the whole quartet is just speaking without playing.

- That was super cool.

Tell me about that.

- Man that was hard to notate, trying to figure out how to convey what I heard in my head, literally and metaphorically.

- Yeah.

And to transform that into what a string quartet can do.

And when I met with Leslie for the first time and she was going to put the string quartet together for me and I'm like, "Warn them they're gonna talk."

Which apparently she didn't.

- No, so they showed up and they were like, "It says speak and I'm not going to."

- No, it went fine.

They were all great.

But it was the first rehearsal is definitely scary.

- Yeah you know, it made me think kind of like a Greek chorus.

- [AJ] Yeah.

- Almost like the orchestra was the Greek chorus.

And there were moments when they were when they were speaking but also moments when Maria was singing and they were behind and it was just such a, such a contrast because some of the stuff they were saying was really heavy.

- Yeah.

- And dark.

Oh, I went through some very very dark times when I was very ill but I also wanted to portray the lighter side of it.

- [Host] Yeah.

- Cause that's what kept me going.

Was my ability to think that tomorrow could be better.

- [Host] Yeah.

- Even when I was, in my darkest of times my psychiatrist was one of the most champion championing, is that a word?

- Sure, why not?

- Championing person in my life.

- Yeah.

- And she never gave up.

And so I would go into her office during our sometimes twice weekly meetings and I would just cry.

I was like, the demons are after me.

I don't know what to do.

I can't do this again.

I've already been to the hospital 10 times.

I don't want to go back.

- Wow.

And she was like, we'll get this.

And so after three years of being in the depths of despair, as cliche as that sounds, we found a combination of medications that work for me.

- Was it cathartic too, to write this piece?

- Absolutely.

It was my ultimate victory.

- Wow.

- To be able to take what I went through and turn my darkest times into art to hopefully help somebody else who's going through something similar.

- You're back with this piece with an audience in person they're not on Zoom.

- Yes.

- What is it that you want the audience to walk away with or to take from, you know being immersed in this piece of music?

- I would like to give an idea of what it's like for people who don't live with bipolar schizophrenia what it is like for, in my experience, 'cause not everybody experiences the same things, but what just sort of a snippet into what I went through.

But also the idea of hope.

That even though I went through all this dark stuff, it can end with hope.

And so holding onto that idea of the fact that it could get better tomorrow is what kept me going when I didn't know if I could.

- Wow.

(solemn music begins) ♪ From naked stones of agony ♪ ♪ I will build a house for me ♪ ♪ As a mason all alone ♪ ♪ I will raise it stone by stone ♪ ♪ Stone by stone ♪ ♪ From naked stones of agony ♪ ♪ I will build a house for me ♪ ♪ As a mason all alone ♪ ♪ I will it raise it stone by stone ♪ ♪ Stone by stone ♪ ♪ And every stone where I have bled ♪ ♪ Will show a sign of dusky red ♪ ♪ I have not gone the way in vain ♪ ♪ For I have good of all my pain ♪ ♪ My spirit's quiet house will be ♪ ♪ Built on naked stones I trod ♪ ♪ On roads I where I lost sight ♪ ♪ Of God ♪ (sinister music begins) - In the night, not long after we have gone to bed, Robert got up and wrote down a melody which he said the angels had sung to him.

Then he laid down again and talked deliriously the whole night, staring at the ceiling all the time.

When morning came, the angels transformed themselves into devils and sang horrible music, telling him he was a sinner and they were going cast him into hell.

He became hysterical, screaming in agony, that they were pouncing on him like tigers and hyenas and seizing him with their claws.

♪ At morn ♪ ♪ At noon ♪ ♪ At twilight dim ♪ ♪ Maria ♪ ♪ Thou has heard my hymn ♪ ♪ In joy and woe ♪ ♪ In good and ill ♪ ♪ Mother of God be with me still ♪ (calming music playing) ♪ When the hours flew brightly by ♪ ♪ And not cloud obscured the sky ♪ ♪ My soul lest it should truant be ♪ ♪ By grace did guide to thine and thee ♪ ♪ thine and thee ♪ ♪ Now when storms of life o'ercast ♪ ♪ Darkly my present and my past ♪ ♪ Let my future radiant shine ♪ ♪ With sweet hopes of thee and thine ♪ - I could well believe that there is a violent, expansive force within me.

I see that wide horizon and the sun and I suffer so much.

So much (unsettling chords plucking) that if I did not get a grip of myself I should shout and roll upon the ground.

I have found only one way of completely satisfying this immense appetite for emotion.

(calming music continues) And that is music without it I am certain I could not go on living.

(resolute music begins) ♪ If I can stop a heart from breaking ♪ ♪ I shall not live in vain ♪ ♪ If I can ease one ♪ ♪ Life of aching ♪ ♪ Or cool one pain ♪ (uplifting music continues) ♪ Or help one fainting robin ♪ ♪ Unto his nest again ♪ ♪ I shall not ♪ ♪ Shall not ♪ ♪ Shall not ♪ ♪ Shall not ♪ ♪ Live in vain ♪ (gentle music continues) ♪ I shall not ♪ ♪ Shall not ♪ ♪ Shall not ♪ ♪ Shall not ♪ ♪ Live in vain ♪ (applause) - Up next We have Give Get Sistet, a chorus of women who use acapella singing and vocal improvisation to educate, empower, and entertain.

Please put your hands together for Give Get Sistet.

(applause) (harmonic peaceful humming) (humming continues) (airy rhythmic gasping) (vocalizing) (soothing vocalized harmony) (breathy vocalized harmony continues) - I sometimes think if you encountered on my outside all that's going on inside, how different our meeting might be.

If you encountered all that's moving and hurting and flowing and changing and shifting inside, how would our meeting be?

(rhythmic humming continues) ♪ There is more dark matter ♪ ♪ There is more space ♪ ♪ Then what is said ♪ ♪ There is more between ♪ ♪ Between ♪ ♪ Than there ♪ ♪ is individual ♪ ♪ Than there is I know ♪ ♪ Than monument ♪ (vocalizing) (vocalized clicking) ♪ There is more potential ♪ ♪ Than what is already done ♪ ♪ More in pride ♪ ♪ To be pressed into existence by our love ♪ ♪ By our will ♪ ♪ By our openness ♪ ♪ Our war ♪ ♪ In spirit ♪ (vocalizing continues) (light gentle music) - I am not a vocal improviser.

So I was sitting there like this half the time cause it's just incredible.

It was like locomotion and it just didn't didn't stop.

And then all of a sudden somebody would bring in a new idea.

How do you do that?

What, what's the secret?

- Play.

- Listening.

- Deep listening.

- And not having, needing to know what it is.

Even when you start to sing.

To like be open to it, becoming anything.

- What I really loved about it, is you were so in your bodies the whole time.

There were moments where you were really looking and there were moments where you were so in kind of in your own path, and then it would come together and then it would turn.

What, I really am not a vocal improviser.

My improvising is like making dinner with what's in my fridge.

So how, what do rehearsals look like when you get together?

Is it just this, this idea of playing?

- Absolutely.

Again, I think deep listening to each other and remember there are more of us.

And so when we are all seven together which is rare, very rare, our schedules never align.

It's impossible because we're each individual artists as well.

So we have our own things.

But when we come together, we devote our ears to each other.

It's really true.

You know, we all have strong harmonic foundation.

And so creating a three part, harmony is easy.

If you hear the other two parts you just put in the third one, but we as you heard offer many vocal sounds and vocables and just sounds that imitate nature in some ways.

And so that combination of sounds is always so exciting because you never know what someone's going to insert into the mix and then you play off that.

So it's riffing, it's just constant riffing.

That's what it really is.

- Why don't you introduce yourselves and tell me too about who else is in the group?

What kind of artistic work do you do outside of this ensemble?

- I'm Aimee K. Bryant.

I am a theater artist.

I'm an actor, and a director, and a mover, and a singer, and a teaching artist.

- I'm Libby Turner.

I am a classically trained vocalist.

I have a degree in opera.

And I sang professionally with the group Sounds of Blackness for more than 10 years.

So I have professional stage experience and studio and recording experience.

I also am a voice teacher at Walker West Music Academy.

here in St. Paul.

- My name is Sarah Greer and I identify as an improviser and vocalist.

So Give Get Sistet is one of my very happy places.

I have a spontaneous singing community which is an improv based community singing project.

- I'm Mankwe Ndosi I also consider myself an improviser, composer, a culture worker.

I'm interested in the way that the vibration changes us on the inside and in being able to access, cause I come from a theater background, all of the shades and colors that the voice has to express the full range of human existence and sometimes not human existence.

I like to, I love to sing with these fabulous beings and we've been singing together now for about 12 years, at least.

So some of it also is trust and practice batting back and forth, following each other and saying yes.

- So the missing members are Alicia Steele.

What can we say about Alicia right quick?

She's a mom, she's an educator.

- She's a sex educator - Songwriter.

- Mhm And then there is Jayanthi Rajasa.

What can we say about her quick?

- A brilliant singer.

She is a brilliant singer.

- Splendid voice She's awesome.

She's a mother of four - creative spirit - does beautiful work.

- Creative What is she holding, comings, and goings.

- Yes.

And our other member is Kenna Cottman.

Her specialty is movement and she's just so outstanding.

She runs - Voice of Culture.

Thank you.

And so we acknowledge all of our non present and physical members today and what they contribute to our whole because each of us, as you can see comes from a different background and lens.

And so depending on who we have on stage we take advantage of those, you know, other attributes that each of the other, each of us and the others offer ♪ Oh, help me ♪ ♪ Oh, help me ♪ ♪ Look where we've been ♪ ♪ Look where we've come ♪ ♪ Help me see ♪ (vocalizing) ♪ Oh, hear me ♪ ♪ Hear me ♪ ♪ Oh, hear me ♪ ♪ Hear me ♪ ♪ Hear what we say ♪ ♪ Hear what we say ♪ ♪ Hear what we say ♪ ♪ Hear what we say ♪ ♪ To each other ♪ ♪ Oh help me ♪ ♪ Oh help me ♪ ♪ Help me be strong ♪ ♪ Help me be thoughtful ♪ ♪ Help me be inclusive and together ♪ (vocalizing) ♪ Oh hear me ♪ ♪ Hear me ♪ ♪ Hear me say thank you ♪ ♪ Hear me say bless you ♪ ♪ Hear me when I say ♪ ♪ When I feel ♪ ♪ When I show ♪ ♪ My love ♪ (vocalizing) ♪ Oh hear me ♪ ♪ Oh help me ♪ ♪ Oh see me ♪ ♪ Oh know me ♪ ♪ I feel togetherness ♪ ♪ And I feel unity ♪ ♪ And I feel love ♪ ♪ Love ♪ ♪ These hands are love ♪ ♪ This voice is love ♪ ♪ These breasts are love ♪ ♪ These hips are love ♪ ♪ These knees are love ♪ ♪ These toes are love ♪ ♪ This butt is love ♪ ♪ This hair under there is love ♪ ♪ These tears are love ♪ ♪ These teeth are love ♪ ♪ This skin is love ♪ ♪ We are love ♪ ♪ Are you love ♪ ♪ With your hands ♪ ♪ We are love ♪ ♪ Are you love ♪ ♪ With your thoughts ♪ ♪ Are you love ♪ ♪ Are you love ♪ ♪ With your thoughts ♪ ♪ Are you love ♪ ♪ We are love ♪ ♪ We are love ♪ ♪ With our steps ♪ ♪ We are love ♪ ♪ Love ♪ ♪ Love, love, love ♪ ♪ Love, love, love, love ♪ ♪ Love ♪ ♪ Love.

Love, love, love, love ♪ ♪ Let love speak ♪ ♪ Love, love, love ♪ ♪ Let love see ♪ ♪ Let love breathe ♪ ♪ Love ♪ ♪ Let love dance ♪ ♪ Love ♪ ♪ Let love be love ♪ ♪ Let us be love ♪ ♪ love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love,♪ ♪ love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love ♪ ♪ Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love ♪ ♪ Love, love, love, love, love, love, love ♪ ♪ Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, ♪ ♪ Love, love, love, love ♪ ♪ Love ♪ ♪ Love ♪ ♪ Love ♪ (vocalizing continues) ♪ As we send and receive our love ♪ ♪ To those gone before ♪ ♪ As we send and receive to those who come before ♪ ♪ We send and receive ♪ ♪ To those who are on their way ♪ ♪ Finding her place ♪ ♪ A space ♪ ♪ Making our way ♪ ♪ We send and receive ♪ ♪ We give and we get ♪ ♪ We send and receive the sisters of the Sistet ♪ ♪ We send and receive the joy they bring me ♪ ♪ We send and receive ♪ ♪ Send and receive ♪ (light piano music) - I brought my students to one of your performances at the Courtroom Concert with the Schubert club.

And I brought a group of ELL students.

So English Language Learners, newcomers to the U.S. - Kenna was there.

- Someone, one of the other singers, you mentioned saying this beautiful improvised lullaby - That was Alicia, - Alicia.

And I look over, - She wrote that.

Yeah on the spot - On the spot.

which was insane.

And I look over at two of my kids and they are, I mean, they were out and I felt bad because there's beautiful art happening on stage but it was just incredible that not knowing English they had fully understood and felt and just let go of some of that anxiety and tension of being a high schooler in 2022 to completely connect with what was happening on stage.

Like as a teacher, I was sitting there like, oh my goodness.

And my kids just loved it.

It was really, really special.

You know, when you perform together not knowing where the musical path may take you what is it that you want to share with audiences or invite audiences to take away?

- I personally am moving away from considering audiences' expectations.

Not entirely I'm moving towards, we are in this together and we will journey together.

And so I think this idea of being in stepping into a space, you know, we started with humming, which was about making sure that we are in the space together.

Then that can start to move outward.

- We often get together and we rehearse by singing.

But we also talk about what's happening.

What are the stories?

What are the feelings?

What are things that are alive in us?

And we get on stage or if it's not a stage wherever we're singing we're asking to become the channel for the messages that need to come through.

- Yeah.

And to share it, blend it with the magical majestic beings that I get to do that with.

- I feel like there's a life lesson in there too.

Just about kind of existing.

Thank you so much for sharing your music and your words.

And it's just really cool.

Like it's getting to see you on stage at the Schubert club and then kind of sitting here being like, oh my God this is just so cool.

So can we give another round of applause to Give Get Sistet?

♪ Us us, everyone ♪ ♪ Everyone everyone us, us ♪ ♪ Everyone one of us ♪ ♪ Us us every one of us ♪ ♪ Everyone ♪ ♪ Every one of us ♪ ♪ Everyone ♪ ♪ Everyone of us ♪ ♪ Everyone one ♪ ♪ Everyone of us ♪ ♪ Everyone everyone one of us ♪ ♪ Every one everyone everyone ♪ ♪ Everyone every one everyone, every one of us ♪ - Even the people I don't like?

♪ Everyone ♪ - But what Sarah, What about the people I don't like?

- everyone.

- What about the people I disagree with?

- Everyone.

- What about the people who get on my nerves?

- Everyone - What about the people who don't like me?

- Everyone - But, but what about the people who hate me?

- Everyone - But what about the stones but what about the trees?

- Everyone - What about the birds?

But what about the rocks and the mountain ♪ Everyone ♪ - And the stars - Everyone - And the slithering ♪ Everyone ♪ - The four legged - The two-legged and the four-legged and the no legged - And the metals?

- And the metals, and the elements - And the soil?

and the fire and the aftermath and the creeks and seeds that crack open, Bring the change ♪ We need Everyone ♪ ♪ The fire and the water and the wind and the rain.

♪ ♪ Everyone ♪ (harmonic vocalizing continues) ♪ We must learn how to be together in community ♪ ♪ Everyone ♪ ♪ See the humanity in you ♪ ♪ You see the humanity in me ♪ ♪ Everyone ♪ ♪ Everyone stop making some of us invisible ♪ ♪ Stop thinking your life matters more than mine ♪ ♪ Your comfort matters more than Mine ♪ ♪ Everyone ♪ ♪ See the humanity in everyone ♪ ♪ Every one ♪ ♪ Every two ♪ ♪ Every two ♪ ♪ Every you ♪ ♪ Every me ♪ ♪ Every three ♪ ♪ Everyone ♪ ♪ Everything ♪ ♪ Everyone ♪ ♪ Sisters of trees are connected across the miles ♪ ♪ We are connected across the miles ♪ ♪ Everyone ♪ ♪ Everyone ♪ ♪ Every every every one ♪ (soft vocalizing) (applause) - The Give Get Sistet.

(light-hearted jazz music) - [Announcer] Funding for this program is supported in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund Jennine and John Speier.

And these stage supporters.

(light chimes)