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 ...

As a student at Brookwood High School in the early 2000s, Joel Thompson was obsessed with Rachmaninoff. To this day, his Instagram handle is “Blackmaninoff.” But he never saw himself reflected ...