Requiem for the Victims of Genocide

for

Chorus and Orchestra

(World Premiere, November 21, 2010

Patchogue United Methodist Church

Patchogue, NY)

Elaine Kirkland, conductor

program

    I- Introit: Requiem Aeternam

      (Latin)

 II- To Everything There is a Season

     (English/Native American languages)

III- Uriruka Ndakurase, ...

("You run, I shoot you; you stop, I shoot you")

(Rwanda; (Rwandaniese/English)

 IV- Mon Cri stait le Seul Son

       ("My Cry Was the Only Sound")

        alto solo/SATB

     Cambodia: (French/English)

    

   V- Dark Silhoutte -tenor solos/SATB

      The Rape of Nanking; (English)

 VI-Gulag Archipelago

      1. Papa, Run Away - Tenor solo

          (English)

      2. Dlya Zayon (Gendercide)

          (For the Wives) ( Russian)

VII- Resurrection from Auschwitz

        ...SATB with Narrator