Composer Joel Thompson’s ‘SEVEN LAST WORDS of the UNARMED’
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.…