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The People Get Tired of Dying from The Grey Land (2018)
"The People Get Tired of Dying" from The Grey Land (2018)
(Wordless 6-part choir)
5 minutes
“The People Get Tired of Dying” is scene 1 that opens the mono-opera The Grey Land. The title comes from a short story by Henry Dumas, a poet/writer/activist who was killed, after an altercation, by NYC transit police in the late 1960s. My composition connects contemporary life’s struggles with those of the ancestors—as Ta-Nehisi Coates describes as “the vastness of Black people across space-time.”
Cover photo: Still from Malik Isasis film "The People Get Tired of Dying" for The Grey Land
(Wordless 6-part choir)
5 minutes
“The People Get Tired of Dying” is scene 1 that opens the mono-opera The Grey Land. The title comes from a short story by Henry Dumas, a poet/writer/activist who was killed, after an altercation, by NYC transit police in the late 1960s. My composition connects contemporary life’s struggles with those of the ancestors—as Ta-Nehisi Coates describes as “the vastness of Black people across space-time.”
Cover photo: Still from Malik Isasis film "The People Get Tired of Dying" for The Grey Land
Thanks and credit to all the original photos on this website to: David Andrako, Concrete Temple Theatre, Marcy Begian, Mark Elzey, Ed Lefkowicz, Donald Martinez, Kimberly McCollum, Geoff Ogle, Joseph C. Phillips Jr., Daniel Wolf-courtesy of Roulette, Andrew Robertson, Viscena Photography, Jennifer Kang, Carolyn Wolf, Mark Elzey, Karen Wise, Numinosito. The Numinous Changing Same album design artwork by DM Stith. The Numinous The Grey Land album design and artwork by Brock Lefferts. Contact for photo credit and information on specific images.