Shawn E. Okpebholo: Songs in Flight | MetLiveArts

Shawn E. Okpebholo, composer Tsitsi Ella Jaji, text curator featuring works by Tsitsi Ella Jaji, Crystal Simone Smith, and Tyehimba Jess, and ads from The Freedom on the Move Database Kimille Howard, director Gabriel Vega Weissman, associate director Rhiannon Giddens, voice Karen Slack, soprano Reginald Mobley, countertenor Will Liverman, baritone Howard Watkins, piano Conceived and commissioned by Sparks & Wiry Cries Movements: 1. prologue: oh freedom — a spiritual 2. in flight — a quiet song 3. asko or glasgow — a chaconne 4. peter — a work song 5. mud song — a folk song 6. jack (and paul) — a field holler 7. mariah francis — a waltz 8. matilda’s tom — an anthem 9. i go by robert — a protest song/reprise 10. ahmaud — an elegiac lullaby 11. four martins — a dirge 12. jubilee: thomas rutling (1854?–1915) — a lament/quasi reprise For more information, view this performance’s digital program at “Songs in Flight“ was made possible by the Frank & Lydia Bergen Foundation, the Adrienne Arsht Fund for Resilience through Art, Douglas Dockery Thomas, and an anonymous foundation. Recorded at the World Premiere on Thursday, January 12, 2023 in The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium Subscribe for new content from The Met: #TheMet #Art #TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt #Museum © 2023 The Metropolitan Museum of Art