Loggins-Hull: The Inheritors Overture
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- Composer: Allison Loggins-Hull
- Format: Full Score
- Instrumentation: Chamber Orchestra
- Work: The Inheritors Overture (2020)
Description
INSTRUMENTATION
2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets (1st opt. piccolo), 2 trombones, timpani, percussion (snare drum, large gong, 3 tom-toms), strings
PROGRAM NOTE
Transgenerational trauma, or intergenerational trauma, is trauma passed on through a family member. Not only can someone experience trauma, but they can pass along the symptoms and resulting behaviors of that trauma to their children and so on. Many scholars and psychologists have researched transgenerational trauma, two of whom include Joy DeGruy (Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome) and Gita Arian Baack, PhD (The Inheritors: Moving Forward From Generational Trauma). Both of their works inform The Inheritors Overture and demonstrate how the past of our ancestors can influence our psyche and emotional well-being, and also how inherited trauma can transform into resilience.
Throughout The Inheritors Overture there is a haunting recurring theme (first introduced by solo trumpet) that represents trauma. Like inherited trauma, this theme persistently resurfaces in both demanding and subtle ways.
There are two songs quoted in the piece that represent the trauma of sysematic racism and anti-Semitism: The first, "Lord, How Come Me Here?", is a Negro spiritual written by an unnamed African American slave that simply asks, ‘Why am I here? Why am I born a slave?'
The second song is "Die Lebenden Steine" (The Living Stones), which was written during the Holocaust by Aleksander Kulisiewicz with lyrics by Wlodzimierz Wnuk. "Die Lebenden Steine" was a phrase used to describe the prisoners of the concentration camp Mauthausen-Gusen, who were subjected to back-breaking labor in the surrounding quarries.
The Inheritors Overture recognizes the tragedies of American Slavery and the Holocaust, but also acknowledges the inherent strength that comes from surviving and thriving in the face of oppression and genocide.
— Allison Loggins-Hull
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Loggins-Hull: The Inheritors Overture
