American Prize, Vocal Chamber Music Division and Social Justice Category

Southern Dissonance: Portraits of a New South was recently awarded a Finalist Honorable Mention in the 2023 American Prize, Vocal Chamber Music and Social Justice categories. The work was commissioned by the Kinnara Ensemble of Atlanta and toured in Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee in January 2022.

Southern Dissonance: Portraits of a New South for vocal quartet and percussion
I. Harlem - Langston Hughes, 1951
II. We Shall Not Be Moved - words from a rally song sung on the Pettis Bridge, Bloody Sunday, 1965
III. Loophole for Suppression - Stacey Abrams, 2020
IV. Malignant Malaise - Jimmy Carter, 1979
>>Marimba Interlude<<
V. You Want to Grow Old Like the Carters - Alice Walker, 2010
VI. We Shall Not Be Moved (reprise 1)
VII. Those Things - Stacey Abrams, 2021
VIII. In Our Hands - Martin Luther King, 1967
IX. How Long? - John Lewis, 1963
X. We Shall Not Be Moved (reprise 2)
XI. Get It Done - Stacey Abrams, 2018
XII. Only Love Can Do That - John Lewis, 2012
>>Epilogue<<