鶹 Symphony Orchestra
17 May 2026, Barbican, London
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鶹 Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2025-26 Barbican Season Making America: Requiem for America

鶹 Symphony Orchestra
Making America: Requiem for America
19:30 Sun 17 May 2026 Barbican, London

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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 鶹 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.