BBC Symphony Orchestra

► WORLD PREMIERE ► Mohican/Munsee-Lenape composer Brent Michael Davids’s Requiem pairs Indigenous letters with founding-era genocidal texts to lay bare the dark foundations of the USA. A contralto narrator guides us from the "Requiem Aeternam–Doctrine of Discovery" to the final "Threnoedia–We Are Still Here." Commissioned by White Snake Projects and The Lenape Center. Features BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Native American Singers & 5 Opera Soloists. ► Airs on BBC Radio 3. TICKETS https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e8r6gw