Requiem for America tackles the genocidal founding of America, challenging music norms and sanitized historical rhetoric, to give voice to America’s invisible people: American Indians.
Requiem for America is an amazing musical commentary on the founding of America, and a vital one in today’s American landscape. Not only does the anti-requiem saliently lay bare America’s forgetfulness of her original people, but each performance directly involves the indigenous people in nearby tribal communities. This beautiful project deserves our best support! — Winona LaDuke
As we struggle against the deep legacy of racism in the United States, it’s high time for us to face and to mourn the genocide of Native Americans, on which this nation was founded. I'm proud to be associated with this project. — John Luther Adams