Biographies and Credits

Linda Frye Burnham is a writer about community art who is co-director of Art in the Public Interest and the Community Arts Network. She was the founder of High Performance magazine and its editor (with Steven Durland) 1978-1998. She also co-founded the 18th St. Arts Complex and Highways Performance Space in Los Angeles, Calif. She is the editor, with Steven Durland, of "The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena" (Gardiner, N.Y.: Critical Press, 1998.

The "Hallelujah" artists: For biographies of the Dance Exchange artists and "Hallelujah" guest artists, see the "Hallelujah/USA" Program.

The "Hallelujah" music: To hear some of the music from "Hallelujah," look for a CD called "Fertile fields" by Robert Een. The Dance Exchange commissioned Een to write the music for "In Praise of Fertile Fields," the "Hallelujah" for Jacob's Pillow in Lee, Mass. It premiered at the Pillow in August 2000, and appeared in many other "Hallelujahs." It was recorded at Long View Farm in N. Brookfield, Mass., and may be ordered from Buzzbox Records or Amazon.com.

More about "Hallelujah" may be found in "Hallelujah: The Extraordinary Essence in Ordinary Life," published by Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland on the occasion of their August 2002 co-production of ""Hallelujah"/USA." Copies of this 32-page, full color publication are available for $10 each plus $3 shipping and handling, from Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Attn: John Borstel, 7117 Maple Avenue, Takoma Park, Md. 20912.

Support for "Everybody Say Hallelujah" was provided by Art in the Public Interest, Virginia Tech ASPIRES program, the Nathan Cummings Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Funding for the Community Arts Network has been provided by the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the Virginia Tech ASPIRES Program, the Virginia Tech Office of Outreach, the Virginia Tech College of Arts and Sciences and Art in the Public Interest.