Roger Rudenstein composer

An American Requiem is a non religious requiem mass that reflects the destruction of the biosphere, addiction, the revolution of the ignorant, the prejudice of the hateful, the tears of us all, the misery of the pandemic as well as the hope for salvation for a country on the brink of civil war.

The texts vary from my lyrics to poems by Emma Lazarus and William Butler Yeats, writings of Anne Frank and George Orwell to street talk by opioid addicts and even wordless songs expressing the angst, sorrow and hope of these times.