An African American Requiem

Composer:
Damien Geter

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Performance forces:
sop, alt, ten, bass — orchestra — SATB chorus

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Notes:
An African American Requiem is a twenty movement work based on the traditional Latin requiem liturgy infusing spirituals and modern declarations relating to racial violence against African Americans, as well as a setting of Ida B. Wells’s speech Lynching is Color Line Murder.