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Show Time - 7:30pm Doors open at 6:30pm Piotr Gajewski, conductor Eugene Rogers, chorus master with National Philharmonic Chorale and members of The Washington Chorus America\'s Requiem commemorates the life and tragic loss of George Floyd with the world premiere of Adolphus Hailstork\'s A Knee on The Neck, composed around the backbone of the poetry of Dr. Herbert Martin and performed by the National Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorale under the direction of Maestro Piotr Gajewski, along with featured vocalists J\'Nai Bridges, Normal Shankle, and Kenneth Overton. The program concludes with Mozart\'s seminal Requiem in D Minor, also featuring Soprano Janai Brugger.