Reparations NOW
Ensemble pi
Release Date: April 28, 2023
Reparations NOW honors Black Lives Matter, inspired by Ta-Nehisi Coates’ congressional testimony and Ibram X. Kendi’s best-seller book, How to Be an Antiracist – both of which offer powerful and compelling arguments in support of reparations for the African-American community. The album features works by a diverse group of living composers reflecting on systematic racism and the economical and emotional toil it takes on the Black community with compositions from Courtney Bryan, Allison Loggins-Hull, Angélica Negrón, Damian Norfleet, Alvin Singleton, and Trevor Weston.
ABOUT ENSEMBLE PI
Ensemble Pi is a socially conscious new music group founded in 2002. For the last twenty years, Ensemble Pi has presented a Peace Project – an annual multi-media event. Ensemble Pi has championed the work of contemporary composers by premiering and commissioning works by living composers. The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Argosy Fund for Contemporary Music, Meet the Composer, Open Meadow Foundation, American Music Center, Det Norske Componistfond, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, and New Music USA’s Organizational Development Fund have provided major support for these efforts.
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The album will be digitally delivered via email on April 28, 2023.
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TRACK LIST
Conversación a distancia
Carnival for Unity
I. Unity Amongst Youth of the Diaspora
II. Secondline for Black Love
The Pattern
Pinkster Kings
I. Pinkster Procession. Ommegang
II. Introduction and the King's Letter
III. Greed
IV. Half Free and Recessional
Kendi's Secret
Shape Shifter
Elegy
Commissioning credit:
Conversación a distancia, The Pattern, Pinkster Kings, Kendi's Secret, and Elegy were commissioned by Ensemble Pi, with support from The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, New Music USA’s Organizational Development Fund, and private donors.