In Everlasting Memory – with Strings (from the Emancipation Oratorio)

•  Full Score and 25-29 singers – $50.00
•  Full Score and 30-39 singers – $60.00
•  Full Score and 40-49 singers – $80.00
•  Full Score and 50-59 singers – $100.00
•  Full Score and 60-69 singers – $120.00
•  Full Score and 70+ – $140.00

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This purchase includes manuscript versions of the full score, choral score, strings section score, and individual string scores.

($2 per singer + $25 for accompaniment)

This piece is also available in an a cappella arrangement.

In Everlasting Memory is a choral setting of an anonymous poem written on the walls of the Elmina slave castle in Cape Coast, Ghana. Elmina was one of the largest slave castles, a prison for folks being kidnapped and brought from the interior and a fortress meant to protect the slave trade from other colonial powers. Elmina was an exchange place where enslaved people were brought from the interior then sold off to boats that would take them around the world, including the U.S.

The poem reads –

“In everlasting memory
of the anguish of our ancestors,
may those who die rest in peace.
May those who return find their roots.
May humanity never again perpetrate
such injustice against humanity.
We the living vow to uphold this.”

As people from around the world visit this preserved slave castle, this poem is an astonishing statement of these horrible things that happened. We now make a commitment to do whatever we can to make sure that similar things do not happen again

“The Emancipation Oratorio” commemorated the 150th anniversary the abolition of slavery by act of Congress, combining texts and music styles from West Africa, Europe and the US.

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