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.

Los Angeles Opera's productions of two works by composers who died during the Holocaust, Victor Ullmann's 'Der Zerbrochene Krug', and Alexander Zemlinsky's 'Der Zwerg'. Recorded in 2008, the productions feature the Los Angeles Opera and Choir conducted by James Conlon.