An evening with Cantate Chamber Singers, string quintet, and piano centers on Joel Thompson’s powerful Seven Last Words of the Unarmed, which enshrines and amplifies the last words of Black men killed by police violence. This incisive work is partnered with musical invocations of peace and comfort – Caroline Mallonee’s aching unaccompanied Dona Nobis Pacem; All Things Common by Tarik O’Regan, In Paradisum by Ēriks Ešenvalds, Bert Ifill’s Lullaby for Renee, and The Pealing of Frozen Things, an exciting new commission from Cantate’s Young Composers’ Competition Winner Josíah Garza.