Can You Hear God Crying?

Can You Hear God Crying? (2014)

N/A 72 min Movie
Music

A Spiritorio by Hannibal Lokumbe

World première recording of Hannibal Lokumbe's 'spritatorio' Can You Hear God Crying, which combines jazz, gospel and chamber music with West African prayers and songs. The piece, commissioned by Philadelphia philanthropist Carole Haas Gravagno, is about the composer's great-great-grandfather, who was born in the Sahara, kidnapped and enslaved in Liberia, and sold at auction in Charleston, S.C. He escaped to Texas, where he bought land and had a family.

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Cast

Hannibal Lokumbe Hannibal Lokumbe Himself

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