Next weekend, REDCAT is proud to present stuttering, Afro-Caribbean composer, performer, and writer JJJJJerome Ellis. THREE PSALMS is part of Jerome Ellis’ ongoing contemplation of devotion, yearning, and uncertainty. REDCAT’s newly commissioned setting of one of the Psalms builds on the performance at Ellis' apartment in 2018, featuring musicians Catherine Brookman, Starr Busby, Haruna Lee, James Harrison Monaco, Ronald Peet, and Shu Wang. The piece's three movements are settings of Psalm 42 and Psalm 23 from the Hebrew Bible, in both English and Latin translations, with spoken interludes, as part of the artist's practice of "exploring blackness, music, and disabled speech as forces of refusal and healing."
Listen to JJJJJerome Ellis on This American Life.
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