Heartland Men's Chorus "When I Knew" preview by Paul Horsley

The Heartland Men’s Chorus has an uncanny knack for picking timely, even “hot” topics for their programs. In 2003 they performed The Few, the Proud, a multimedia concert that told stories about gays and lesbians in the armed forces throughout American history – literally the same week that we entered into the Iraq war. All God’s Children dealt with issues of being gay and remaining connected to faith or religion. And Justice For All was a program about the Civil Rights movement, women’s suffrage, and other courageous movements. “We just told the story of the fight for freedom,” said HMC artistic director and conductor Joseph Nadeau, who has led Our Town’s 100-plus-voice gay men’s chorus since 1998. has: that someone is being denied some sort of civil rights. As Martin Luther King said, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

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