Richard Danielpour :: An American Requiem


 

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Danielpour, Richard
1956-0000
(b New York, 28 Jan 1956). American
An American Requiem <2001>
mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone solos chorus
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Additional offstage instruments: 6tbn.
Source of text: Michael S. Harper: from “Dear John, Dear Coltrane” and “Images of Kin”; H.D. [Hilda Doolittle]: from “Trilogy”; Whitman: from “Memories of President Lincoln,” and “Dirge for Two Veterans” Part 10, and “Vigil Strange I Kept on the jField One Night”; Emerson: from “Threnody”; African-American Spiritual; Roman Catholic Liturgy. Language: English
PART I
1. Introit: Requiem
2. Dies Irae
3. Vigil II—Lacrimosa—Pie Jesu
PART II
4. Sanctus—Benedictus
5. Lay this Body Down—Agnus Dei
6. Libera Me—Not in Our Time
7. Lux Aeterna