FULL Funeral Doom Spiritual (Lamar) New York 2021 Prototype Festival

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Funeral Doom Spiritual  
• Composer: M. Lamar, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix  
• Libretto: M. Lamar, Tucker Culbertson    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: National Sawdust, New York City  
• Recorded: 2021
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: M. Lamar
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra: The James Ilgenfritz Ensemble  
• Stage Director: Sabin Michael   
• Costume Designer: Erik Bergrin  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Prototype Festival  
• Date Published: 2021  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  
• Video Recording from: Vimeo     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

Funeral Doom Spiritual is a song of mourning for what Anthony Paul Farley calls “the motionless movement of death through slavery, segregation, and neo-segregation.”
This new monodrama composed by M. Lamar and Hunter Hunt-Hendrix draws on themes of apocalypse, end times, and rapture found in Negro Spirituals, what Lamar calls “Doom Spirituals.” It explores radical historical expressions and futuristic longings for destruction of the white supremacist world order. Taking place a century into the future, the piece features the male soprano Lamar on piano, accompanied by two basses, two contrabasses, and electronics, enveloped in immersive light and video.