An African American Requiem
“Geter takes full advantage of the wide-open emotional space offered by the form, offering completely different pathways through mourning, and making the “Requiem” very much his own creation. ”
Orchestra (3.3.2.2/4.4.3.1/Timp, Perc/Str), SATB Choir, SATB Quartet
Commissioned by Resonance Ensemble, 2019
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.
“Damien Geter was born to write this masterpiece, and it will change how we show up in the world. ”