An African American Requiem
For Orchestra, SATB Choir, and SATB quartet
Commissioned by Resonance Ensemble, 2019
Live recording coming in 2023
Read Foreword by Aminata R. Sei
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.
Agnus Dei from An African American Requiem Performed by Laude | Dave Harris, director