LOKUMBE, H.: Can You Hear God Crying? (Chandler-Eteme, Dixon, Holloway, The Celebration Choir, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Brosse)
Soloist:
Chandler, Janice
Soloist:
Dixon, Rodrick
Soloist:
Holloway, Paula
Soloist:
Sakhi, Homayun
Soloist:
Waller, Alyn E.
Choir:
Celebration Choir, The
Orchestra:
Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
Orchestra:
Music Liberation Orchestra, The
Conductor:
Brosse, Dirk
Composer:
Lokumbe, Hannibal
Can You Hear God Crying?
Venue: Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia
Playing Time: 01:11:42
Television Director:
Conant, Matthew
Catalogue Number: 2.110357
UPC: 747313535750
Award-winning composer and trumpet player Hannibel Lokumbe is a leader in expressing the Aprican-American experience through his orchestral and choral music, with a special focus on civil rights leaders. Can You Hear God Crying? is a spiritatorio which takes us on a journey from hardship and suffering to healing and celebrations of courage and peace, told through the forced migration aboard a slave ship endured by Lokumbe's great-grandfather Silas Burgess. Combining jazz, gospel and chamber music together with West African prayers and songs, this is both a moving commemoration and a spectacularly festive event which faces past and present with honesty and deep spiritual understanding.
