Katrina Requiem

Photos from September 2005 after the Federal Flood in New Orleans, set to Eliza Gilkyson's Requiem.

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Music

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• New
• Orleans
• NOLA
• Katrina
• Federal
• Flood
• levee
• Eliza
• Gilkyson
• Requiem

[macfitte]

@FunnyLooking77: What's truly disgraceful is that she was wrapped in the flag of the government that abandoned her, along with your ability to actually type those words and post them.

[Fencie87]

I sang the choral arrangement (with the St. Olaf Choir) under the baton of Craig Hella Johnson, who conducts Conspirare- I think it was he who arranged it. This song is so soulful and heartrending! On the day of the Virginia Tech killings, he broke the news to us and then said that in light of this we will beging by singing Requiem. He had written on the board "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." Bernstein

[scizekwood]

Powerful!

[HollywoodK8]

This is one of the most moving songs I have ever heard. It is beautiful.

[C4932]

very very wonderful song one of my favorite songs :) it is something to calm someone down

[WeirdGuy983]

Very beautiful song, my school choir is singing this song soon, I hope that we can capture as much meaning and beauty of the song as we can

[SuddenlySmile]

I was in the cal state Fullerton choir and we sung this in oct 4th of 08

[MarkFolse]

Thanks for the backstory, TexasRokker. This song still brings tears to the eyes of everyone on the Hurricane Coast I play it for.

[TexasRokker]

Eliza Gilkyson was originally not going to release this song. It wasn't until her daughter talked her into doing it as a duet that she decided it should be released. My favorite song by her. She's an amazing singer, musician, and songwriter. And yes, this was written for the tsunami, not Katrina. Howevre, this song is beautiful enough to be used as a Katrina tribute.