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Songs of Remembering: In Memory of Ahmaud “Quez” Arbery

2026669936780518Chamber, Choral & Vocal

The Grammy-winning Los Angeles-based chorus Tonality presents the world-premiere recording of Running From, Running To, an eight-part suite reflecting on the life and death of Ahmaud Arbery, the young Black man whose killing on February 23, 2020 while jogging sparked a national outcry. Composed by Founding Artistic Director Alexander Lloyd Blake, Running From, Running To is scored for chorus, soloists, and orchestra. Tonality is joined on the album by Los Angeles’s Grammy-nominated Wild Up ensemble, two-time Grammy-winning soprano, Angel Blue; multi-genre bass-baritone Jamal M. Moore; and Ogi, the Los Angeles-based Nigerian-American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who also co-wrote Running From, Running To with Blake. Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, contributes spoken texts to one movement of the work and provided information that helped shape others. Running From, Running To has been praised by the Los Angeles Times as a “powerful meditation on remembrance and justice.” Also included on the album are new arrangements by Blake of “Poor Wayfaring Stranger” and “Deep River,” and an a cappella arrangement of the protest song “No More!” from Running From, Running To.

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