Fort Worth Opera will present a new requiem commemorating the many Black victims of America’s racial violence.
from 1962. But Verdi was honoring a friend who died, the novelist Alessandro Manzoni. Britten’s requiem derived from his pacifism. So Geter’s requiem is different: It’s about the murder of thousands of people across four centuries. What’s also different, Geter said, “is that the acknowledgment of slain African Americans in this country has been hushed up, put down for hundreds of years.”
But what is the same among all requiems, Geter said, is that they’re motivated by loss. And the fundamental need for remembrance.presented by the Fort Worth Opera with the Fort Worth Symphony, 6 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28, Van Cliburn Concert Hall at TCU.and KERA that expands local arts, music and culture coverage through the lens of access and equity.
This community-funded journalism initiative is funded by the Better Together Fund, Carol & Don Glendenning, City of Dallas OAC, Communities Foundation of Texas, The Dallas Foundation, Eugene McDermott Foundation, James & Gayle Halperin Foundation, Jennifer & Peter Altabef and The Meadows Foundation.. Jerome Weeks is the senior arts reporter/producer for KERA-FM and former book columnist and theater critic for The Dallas Morning News.
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