for soprano, mezzo-soprano, viola, and piano
op. 40

Commissioned and premiered by Northwest Art Song:
Arwen Myers, soprano; Laura Thoreson, mezzo-soprano
Kenji Bunch, viola; Susan McDaniel, piano

The English text was assembled and freely adapted from speeches by and interviews with Valerie Bell (mother of Sean Bell), Gwen Carr (mother of Eric Garner), Sybrina Fulton (mother of Trayvon Martin), as well as a number of pseudonymous sources interviewed in Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak About War & Terror by Susan Galleymore, and a 1992 article from the New York Times entitled “Parents and AIDS: Rage and Tears” by Carol Lawson.