The mission of A Choral Quilt of Hope is to create and disseminate a choral composition of the UNDHR (The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights).

Working from Suntree’s adaptation of the Declaration, writer Susan Suntree and composer Adrienne Albert are creating two choral compositions:

1. The Community Song version for choral groups with 4 to 25 members;
2. The Celebration Song composed for large, professional choruses.

The Community Song will be posted on a website along with all the materials necessary to present a performance of the UNDHR composition including program notes, the complete text of the Document, the UNDHR’s history with photographs of its authors and a homage to Eleanor Roosevelt who conceived of the document and shepherded it through its ratification on 10 December 1948. Choral groups will register to download the composition and supporting materials, to donate to keep the project going, and to have their group highlighted on a map of the US and of the world that will track performances. We will encourage translations so the composition will be sung around the world.