They Still Want to Kill Us an aria for mezzo soprano and piano (2021)
by Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR)

Instrumentation: Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
Length: 4 minutes
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ARIA DESCRIPTION:
Calling it a “work of social justice and global change,” composer and activist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) created They Still Want to Kill Us, premiered by mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges, to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

ARTIST STATEMENT:
Violence against BIPOC people is part of our American history… Together, we can fight back and find love among the willing.
-DBR

More information on They Still Want to Kill Us, including educational resources for this work, can be found at www.sozoartists.com/tswtku

This work of social justice and global change is executively produced by Rika Iino and Ichun Yeh of Sozo Creative with support from Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, OK, and is commissioned by the Apollo Theater, Opera Philadelphia, the Fine Arts Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage Anywhere, Joe's Pub, Stanford Live, University Musical Society at the University of Michigan, Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh University, The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Creative Alliance, Bill Bragin, and Washington Performing Arts with support from National Sawdust and the Lotus Education and Arts Foundation, distributed by ActiveCultures, Esty Dinur, globalFEST, ¡Globalquerque!, and HotHouse.