Reparations Now
by ensemble pi
FOR YOUR
GRAMMY® CONSIDERATION
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
Ensemble Pi, Reparations NOW!
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
Alexis Pia Gerlach, Shape Shifter
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Conversación a distancia by Angelica Negrón
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
The Pattern by Allison Loggins-Hull
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Pinkster Kings by Trevor Weston
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Carnival for Unity by Courtney Brian
ABOUT
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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.
