New Wave Singers of Baltimore

06/08/2026

"None of us should walk out the door and just say 'oh, that was a nice concert.' and forget about it."
-Rosita Stevens-Holsey, niece of Pauli Murray.

What will you do now that you know?

06/07/2026

Sincerely Yours is right on time!

What can we do with this story in 2026?

First, we must hear it - one performance left today at 4 PM!

06/05/2026

7 Facts about Pauli Murray in 7 days #7:

"Male head, male brain, female-ish body, unbearable pain."

Born Anna Pauline, Murray chose to go by Pauli and struggled with gender dysphoria. Her pleas for gender affirming care including hormone therapy and exploratory surgery were denied by physicians.

How would Pauli have identified today? The Pauli Murray Center acknowledges the fluidity of this question: https://www.paulimurraycenter.com/pronouns-pauli-murray

Performances of "Sincerely Yours, Pauly Murray" begin TOMORROW!

Tickets: https://newwavesingers.org/tickets/

06/05/2026

Composer Steve Milloy LOADED this piece with Easter eggs spanning multiple decades. How many will you catch in "Sincerely Yours, Pauli Murray?" Find out this weekend!

06/04/2026

7 Facts about Pauli Murray in 7 days #6:

"Equality for women, equality NOW"

Based on her own experiences, Pauli coined the phrase "Jane Crow" referring to discrimination based on gender and on race.

Murray fought back as one of 12 founders of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966. Murray is pictured here with co-founder Betty Friedan.

06/03/2026

7 Facts about Pauli Murray in 7 days #5:

The Methodist Church was against segregation and wanted to see if its parishes could disregard local segregation laws, so they asked Pauli to write up an explanation of segregation laws.

She compiled a 746-page book, States’ Laws on Race and Color, that The ACLU distributed to law libraries, HBCUs, and human-rights organizations.

Thurgood Marshall kept stacks of it around the NAACP office and referred to Murray’s work as “the bible” of Brown vs. Board of Education.

Want more Pauli facts? Join us this weekend for the new musical work "Sincerely Yours, Pauli Murray"
Tickets: https://newwavesingers.org/tickets/

06/03/2026

"As the 14th Amendment comes under attack again, along with the civil rights of trans, q***r, and Black people, this is both a joyous and defiant way to celebrate Pride. "

Thank you, Beat - we couldn't agree more!
A few tickets for "Sincerely Yours, Pauli Murray" remain available!

https://baltimorebeat.com/whats-poppin-issue-083/

Choruses

“Sincerely Yours, Pauli Murray,” Grace United Methodist Church, 5407 N. Charles Street, June 6 and 7. newwavesingers.org In 2012, the Episcopal Church made Rev. Pauli Murray a saint, and whatever Baltimore City’s version of sainthood is, it ought to also be bestowed on the q***r icon and civil...

06/03/2026

Nice write up about "Sincerely Yours, Pauli Murray" (THIS WEEKEND. Did you get your tickets yet?) in this week's What's Poppin in the Baltimore Beat. Many thanks to Baynard Woods & the Beat staff. We are so excited to bring this work about Baltimore-born leader Pauli Murray to Baltimore audiences, and can't wait to share the music this weekend! Read about it at the Beat:

“Sincerely Yours, Pauli Murray,” Grace United Methodist Church, 5407 N. Charles Street, June 6 and 7. newwavesingers.org In 2012, the Episcopal Church made Rev. Pauli Murray a saint, and whatever Baltimore City’s version of sainthood is, it ought to also be bestowed on the q***r icon and civil...

06/02/2026

7 Facts about Pauli Murray in 7 days #4:

Murray was arrested for sitting in the whites-only section of a Virginia bus with a friend in 1940, 15 years before Rosa Parks made headlines for her bus protest.

Read a Carolina Times article about the incident here: https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn83045120/1940-04-06/ed-1/seq-1/

Want more Pauli facts? Join us this weekend for the new musical work "Sincerely Yours, Pauli Murray"
Tickets: https://newwavesingers.org/tickets/

06/01/2026

7 Facts about Pauli Murray in 7 days #3:

Poet. Lawyer. Activist.

The book “Dark Testament and Other Poems,” features poems from all eras of Pauli's life. The titular poem "Dark Testament" was read at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s memorial service in April 1968.

Hear Murray herself read the poem here: https://mps.lib.harvard.edu/sds/audio/427017741

Learn more Pauli facts June 6 and 7 in the new musical work "Sincerely Yours, Pauli Murray"

Tickets: https://newwavesingers.org/tickets/