Ten Freedom Summers : Defining Moments In The United States of America - First Collection.

For multiple ensembles. Contents: 1. Dred Scott : 1857, The Issues of Human Rights - for Quartet -- 2. Malik Al-Shabazz and the People of the Shahada - for Quartet -- 3. The D.C. Wall : A Memorial for All Times - for Quartet and String Quartet -- 4. Black Church, String Quartet No. 3 - A First World Gathering of the Spirit - for String Quartet -- 5. Emmett Till : Defiant, Fearless - for String Quartet, Harp and Quartet -- 6. Thurgood Marshall and Brown vs. Board of Education : A Dream of Equal Education, 1954 - for Quartet -- 7. John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and the Space Age : 1960 - for Chamber Orchestra. With program and performance notes. Partially commissioned by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Chamber Music America, and South West Chamber Music. The collection is dedicated to the Civil Rights movement and the people who gave their lives for it. In memory of Lucius G. Smith, Sarah B. Smith-Wallace, Bobby J. Kelly, and Yvonne Wallace. Each piece is dedicated to the person or institution after whom it is named. Premiered in Los Angeles, October 2011. Printed from manuscript. Duration of this collection ca. 90-100 minutes. The complete work performed over three days amounts to five hours of music.

1 score (multile aginations p.); 43 cm
Spiral

Language: English