Requiem receives 4-Star Guardian Review

[REVIEW] "Amid the 250th anniversary of US independence, Brent Michael Davids’ Requiem for America brings an abrupt and necessary shift of perspective... What those voices have to say makes hard listening. We hear from the boy hiding under a hut where a massacre took place, watching blood trickle through the boards; the medic recounting how a regiment fired on an unarmed group of Lakota families; another movement tells powerfully of a long death march, the Narrator singing out the miles, the choir listing the tally of dead. Finally, after so many atrocities recounted, comes a chorus affirming the Indigenous people’s endurance: we are still here. Here it’s the Native American choir’s music that triumphs, the rest of the voices taking it up joyfully, before the music dissolves into birdsong... It’s a gentle, hopeful end to a heavy, urgent, necessary work." FULL REVIEW:  https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/may/18/requiem-for-america-review-brent-michael-davids-barbican-bbcso