“Sing Democracy 250” will bring more than 175 singers from across the country to David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center on May 24.

Under the baton of conductor G. Phillip Shoultz III, the evening features two newly commissioned world premieres. “Redeem the Dream,” by Brandon A. Boyd, sets Langston Hughes’s poem “Let America Be America Again.” “US,” by Michael Bussewitz-Quarm, draws on the words of author and diplomat Richard Haass and features quotations from Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Barbara Jordan, John Lewis, Sandra Day O’Connor, and Ronald Reagan.

Performing ensembles include the Minneapolis’ Together in Hope Choir, the Mizzou University Singers, the Stuyvesant High School Oratorio Choir, and the Main Line Symphony Orchestra.

The New York concert kicks off at 7 p.m. and is the third of four national signature events. The series launched in Philadelphia in fall 2025, continued in Minneapolis on April 12, and concludes in Washington, D.C. on June 13.