ECMC will be joined by the Queer Urban Orchestra and its conductor, David Bloom, to present an epic Anniversary program called GIVE EVERYTHING examining humanity's need for generosity without expectation. A concert study of what it means to give everything - even your very life in the service of others, the program will include Conrad Susa's rarely heard orchestration and choral voicing of Brahms' four last songs or Ernste Gesänge, Joel Thompson's heart-wrenching Seven Last Words of the Unarmed, and an uplifting anniversary-commissioned work for chorus and orchestra by the composer Jeffrey Parola.