Joel Thompson
The recent murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a person of African descent who was shot to death, while jogging in Georgia bring to mind composer Joel Thompson ‘SEVEN LAST WORDS of the UNARMED’, a multi-movement work honoring the lives of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, Kenneth Chamberlain, Amadou Diallo, and John Crawford. See Joel Thompson https://sevenlastwords.org/about/composer/ and performance by Sphinx Symphony Organization and University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club, lead by conductor Eugene Rogers.
