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News Articles: Carlos Simon

Composer Carlos Simon's <em>Requiem for the Enslaved</em>, commissioned by Georgetown University, is a reckoning with the school's troubled history.

'Requiem for the Enslaved' holds a major university's truths up to the light

Georgetown University owes its survival to slavery. A new album by Carlos Simon, an assistant professor at the school, unflinchingly confronts that legacy.

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By:
  • Tom Huizenga
Composer Carlos Simon's <em>Requiem for the Enslaved</em>, commissioned by Georgetown University, is a reckoning with the school's troubled history.

'Requiem for the Enslaved' holds a major university's truths up to the light

Georgetown University owes its survival to slavery. A new album by Carlos Simon, an assistant professor at the school, unflinchingly confronts that legacy.

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By:
  • Tom Huizenga