White Snake Projects Presents
REQUIEM FOR
AMERICA
Singing For the Invisible People
November 14, 2026 | 7:30PM | Jordan Hall
ABOUT
Requiem For America tackles the genocidal founding of America across the 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, in three installments. Each Requiem consists of 19 movements and opens with the same Movement #1, “The Doctrine of Discovery,” that authorized colonizers to subjugate Indigenous peoples. Each Requiem ends with the same Movement #19, “Threnodia: We Are Still Here.”
Commissioned by White Snake Projects & The Lenape Center
Approx. 120 minutes with intermission; Performed in English with subtitles
My vision is to tour Requiem to all 50 states, plus D.C. Each performance will feature Indigenous singers recruited from local tribal communities, an essential element to the mission: To create cultural catharsis as we speak the truth of the country’s genesis. Through truth-singing, we can collectively recount and face the nation’s blood-soaked nativity. This is a pivotal moment for a project I have nurtured on my own until now. After 20 years, I have found a collaborator, White Snake Projects, an activist performance company, to develop, support and premiere the work. WSP believes in the power of this work, not just artistically but in terms of what it can do for truth-telling. Together, we will be premiering the first Requiem in 2026, initially with the BBC on May 17th and then in Boston on November 14th.
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SUPPORT
Thank you to the Barbican Centre and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for supporting the Requiem for America project, with foundational support from co-commissioner White Snake Projects, co-commissioner The Lenape Center, and many steadfast individuals without whom the project would not have been possible. Requiem received key support from many organizations including Mellon Foundation, the Native Arts & Culture Foundation’s Transformative Change + Indigenous Arts (SHIFT) program, Creative Capital, MAP Fund, Aaron Copland House, the School for Advanced Research Indian Arts Research Center, Institute of American Indian Arts, the Society for New Music, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater College of Arts and Communication, Forge Project, the University of Wisconsin-River Falls Music Program, Indiana University Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, the Northern Illinois University School of Music, Red Road Reclamation, the American Composers Forum, the City of Boston’s Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture, and New Music USA.
White Snake Projects’ 2025-2026 programming is supported by a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation. Our programming is also supported the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mass Cultural Council, the Boston Cultural Council, Reopen Creative Boston Fund, administered by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, The Asian Community Fund at the Boston Foundation, and Live Arts Boston.
