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Making America: Requiem for America

BBC Symphony Orchestra / Teddy Abrams

,Barbican Hall
Brent Michael Davids

The BBC Symphony Orchestra presents Requiem for America: Singing for the Invisible People — Brent Michael Davids’s searing work which confronts hard truths about America’s founding.

Mohican/Munsee-Lenape composer Brent Michael Davids’s Requiem pairs Indigenous letters with founding-era genocidal texts to lay bare, state by state, the dark foundations of the United States of America. A contralto narrator embodying the Earth guides us along a deeply moving musical arc, from the colonial “Doctrine of Discovery” to a final Threnoedia.  

Conducted by Teddy Abrams, Davids’s monumental work features the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, an ensemble of Native American singers and Davids himself, on Native American flute. This landmark world premiere is more than a concert - it’s a reckoning, a remembrance, and a call to truth through music.
 

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Programme

  • Brent Michael Davids   Requiem for America (World Premiere)

Performers

  • Teddy Abrams   conductor
  • Brent Michael Davids   Native American flute
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra  
  • BBC Symphony Chorus  

Ticket prices

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From £15 *
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