Help us close out this year's USM Convocation theme of "Race & Participatory Democracy" with Annie, the Portland Piano Trio, USM SoM alumna Teresa Herold, and pianist Bridget Convey. We'll hear music inspired by democratic ideals and political events in America and beyond over the past 150 years, including works by American composer Amy Beach, who persisted as a professional composer and pianist long before it was considered acceptable for women to do so. The program also includes works by Franz Liszt celebrating a marginalized ethnic group; a sonata by Czech composer Leos Janacek, who was inspired to write in reaction to an uprising that ended with police brutality; musical stories of workers' uprisings in the early 20th-century textile industry by Frederic Rzewski; responses to climate change by John Luther Adams; and some beautiful arrangements of spirituals.