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Weekend Concert Series

Requiem for the Enslaved

World Premiere!

Sunday
October 9, 2022
1:30 pm
Calderwood Hall

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Program

Boston’s world-class ensemble Hub New Music are joined by hip-hop artist Marco Pavé, trumpeter Jared Bailey, and the composer on piano for the world premiere of a piece first performed virtually at the Library of Congress. Invoking African American spirituals and the form of a Catholic liturgical mass, Carlos Simon’s concert-length work tells the story of 272 enslaved people sold to pay the debts of Georgetown University, where the composer currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music. 

Requiem for the Enslaved features music by Carlos Simon and text by Marco Pavé.

  • Hub New Music
  • Carlos Simon, piano
  • Marco Pavé, spoken word
  • Jared Bailey, trumpet

Photo by Robert Torres

Music at the Gardner is supported by Nora McNeely Hurley / Manitou Fund. Hemenway & Barnes LLP is the lead corporate sponsor of the Weekend Concert Series. The Museum thanks its generous concert donors: The Coogan Concert in memory of Peter Weston Coogan; Fitzpatrick Family Concert; James Lawrence Memorial Concert; Alford P. Rudnick Memorial Concert; David Scudder in memory of his wife, Marie Louise Scudder; Wendy Shattuck Young Artist Concert; and Willona Sinclair Memorial Concert. The piano is dedicated as the Alex d’Arbeloff Steinway. The harpsichord was generously donated by Dr. Robert Barstow in memory of Marion Huse, and its care is endowed in memory of Dr. Barstow by The Barstow Fund. Music at the Gardner is also supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.