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Portraits: Douglass & Tubman

Song Cycle for Choir, Strings, and Percussion

Music and Poetry by: Jasmine Barnes

Quotes by: Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman


Duration: 12 mins 30 secs


Originally Commissioned and premiered by Baltimore Choral Arts Society, 2022

 



The work pulls inspiration from the Mozart Requiem to reflect on Baltimore today with texts by Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.


FORCES


Singers:

SATB


Orchestra:

Violin I

Violin II

Viola

Violoncello

Contrabass

Timpani

Snare Drum

Xylophone Cymbals

Percussion


 

MEDIA





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