Damien Geter
An African American Requiem
Duration: 90'
Instrumentation: Orchestra (3322 - 4431 - timp - perc - strings), SATB choir, SATB quartet
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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.
Orchestral performance parts are available via rental.
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About the Work
Duration: 90'
Movements:
1. Introit
2. Kyrie
3. We Are Living in Communities like War Zones
4. Dies Irae
5. Tuba Mirum
6. I Can't Breathe
7. Mors Stupebit
8. Liber Scriptus/There's a Man Goin' Round
9. Quid Sum Miser
10. Rex Tremendae
11. Recordare/I Am Confused and Afraid
12. Ingemisco
13. Confutatis
14. Lacrimosa
15. Offertory
16. Kum Ba Yah (Sanctus)
17. Agnus Dei
18. Lux Aeterna
19. Libera Me/Lynching is Color Line Murder
20. In Paradisum/Walk Together Children
Instrumentation: Orchestra (3322 - 4431 - timp - perc - strings), SATB choir, SATB quartet
Commissioned by: Resonance Ensemble
ISMN: 979-0-094-00234-9
Pages: 202
