Thursday, May 7, 2020

John Malveaux: The murder of Ahmaud Arbery while he was jogging in Georgia brings to mind Joel Thompson's 'SEVEN LAST WORDS of the UNARMED'


John Malveaux of MusicUNTOLD.com writes:

The recent murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a person of African descent who was shot to death, while jogging in Georgia brings to mind composer Joel Thompson's 'SEVEN LAST WORDS of the UNARMED', a multi-movement work honoring the lives of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, Kenneth Chamberlain, Amadou Diallo, and John Crawford. See Joel Thompson
https://sevenlastwords.org/about/composer/ and performance by Sphinx Symphony Organization and University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club, lead by conductor Eugene Rogers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdNXoqNuLRQ

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