(30 May 2025)
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++COMMERCIAL MUSIC, MUSIC VIDEO AND/OR PERFORMANCES MUST BE CLEARED ACCORDING TO YOUR OWN LOCAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE AND COPYRIGHT AGREEMENTS WITH YOUR APPLICABLE COLLECTING SOCIETY++
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Detroit – 8 May 2025
1. Various of a dress-rehearsal performance of “The Central Park Five” at the Detroit Opera House
2. The conductor leads the orchestra during the dress rehearsal
3. A character representing Donald Trump sings on-stage
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Davis, “The Central Park Five” composer:
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“The ‘Central Park Five’ represents the beginning of Donald Trump’s political career. That’s how it started. It started with his demonizing five young boys – five 15- and 16-year-olds — calling for the death penalty. And really exploiting the underlying racial animus that existed.”
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ARCHIVE: Potterville, Michigan – 29 August 2024
5. Then-candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Detroit – 8 May 2025
6. “The Central Park Five” Trump character sings
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ARCHIVE: Washington – 12 May 2025
7. Trump walks across the White House South Lawn before boarding Marine One
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ARCHIVE: Washington – 20 May 2025
8. Trump speaks with reporters at the Capitol
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Detroit – 8 May 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Yuval Sharon, Detroit Opera artistic director:
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“These deportations that are happening of people who are being deported with no just cause, it rhymes with what’s happening in this opera.”
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ARCHIVE: Novi, Michigan – 27 October 2024
10. Trump walks down a stairway at the conclusion of a campaign rally
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ARCHIVE: Washington – 21 March 2025
11. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as seen from across the Potomac River
12. A statue of President John F. Kennedy outside the Kennedy Center
13. Pan across the front of the Kennedy Center
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ann Arbor, Michigan – 21 May 2025
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Devon Akmon, Michigan State University Museum:
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“There is a torrent of actions, executive orders and other things taking place that’s really providing a lot of confusion to those of us running libraries, museums, performing arts venues and other types of arts and cultural institutions.”
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Detroit – 8 May 2025
15. Two “The Central Park Five” performers sing together
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Davis, “The Central Park Five” composer:
“The only way to respond to a bully is to stand up.”
17. Various of the dress rehearsal, including the orchestra pit
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Yuval Sharon, Detroit Opera artistic director:
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“We still believe in a more just society. And we want to work with all of our being to make that more just society through whatever means we have. In the case of us artists, we have the stage. We have music. We have visuals. And that’s not going to change.”
19. The Trump character
STORYLINE:
VOICE-OVER SCRIPT:
THE DETROIT OPERA RECENTLY HOSTED A THREE-PERFORMANCE RUN OF "THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE.”
THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING OPERA ABOUT THE QUINTET OF BLACK AND LATINO TEENS FALSELY ACCUSED OF BRUTALLY BEATING A WHITE FEMALE JOGGER IN LATE ‘80’S NEW YORK CITY FEATURES A CHARACTER WHO SINCE HAS ASCENDED TO THE HIGHEST ELECTIVE OFFICE IN THE LAND.
SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Davis, “The Central Park Five” composer:
AND CRUSADING AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
SOUNDBITE (English) Yuval Sharon, Detroit Opera artistic director:
STANDING UP.
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