Joel Thompson’s “The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed,” written in 2014, is finding new listeners in a summer of unrest. By Giulia Heyward When Joel Thompson composed “The Seven Last Words ...

But when the Seattle Symphony plays Joel Thompson’s “To Awaken the Sleeper” on Thursday, Dec. 2, and Saturday, Dec. 4, it’ll perform a work on the crest of the first wave of orchestral ...

Joel Thompson, a composer from Atlanta, strung those words together into a composition titled, "Seven Last Words of the Unarmed." The Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, the Morehouse College Glee ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Jaap van Zweden, the orchestra’s music director, led new works by Joel Thompson and Tan Dun amid pieces by Mozart ...

Image sources: Music Director William Henry Curry courtesy of the Durham Symphony, sheet music from Seven Last Words of the Unarmed by Joel Thompson. In 2003, Maestro William Henry Curry was in ...