Performance of Hannibal Lokumbe's 'spiritatorio' which features jazz, gospel and chamber music alongside West African prayers and songs. The story explores the trials and triumphs of African-American life using the experience of Lokumbe's great-grandfather who was forced to board a slave ship for a new land. Dirk Brossé conducts the Liberation Music Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. Among the performers are soprano Janice Chandler-Eteme, tenor Rodrick Dixon and Afghan rubâb player Homayun Sakhk.