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Cover of Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
BMOP/sound
1088
Recording Release Date 
September 2022
SACD Recording 
SACD
Recording Length 
Disc 1: 77:59
Disc 2: 70:56
  • Boston Modern Orchestra Project
  • Gil Rose, conductor

The first recording from BMOP's As Told By: History, Race, and Justice on the Opera Stage is now available digitally!

Purchase your high-quality, DRM-free copy of Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X and receive unlimited streaming at BMOP's Bandcamp page. Physical CDs arrive later this month, which you can pre-order below.

Are you an educator? Castle of Our Skins’s companion curriculum guide unleashes the power of the opera for educators and students, providing biographical, historical, and musical material to lead students through the life and legacy of Malcolm X. The curriculum guide is FREE, and until the end of 2022, educators can receive a FREE CD or digital download of X when they download their curriculum guide! Download the curriculum guide here.

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Track listing

Disc 1 
Audio icon Overture
Audio icon Act I
Audio icon Scene 1: "Africa for Africans"
Audio icon Scene 1: Louise's Aria, "I remember..."
Audio icon Scene 1: "Reverend Little is dead."
Audio icon Scene 1: "What is going on here?"
Audio icon Scene 1: "Momma, help me."
Audio icon Scene 2: Boston, "Come with me, child."
Audio icon Scene 2: Pool Hall, "Shoot your shot!"
Audio icon Scene 2: Dance Hall, "Just stand real still"
Audio icon Scene 2: "I see..."
Audio icon Scene 3: Malcolm's Aria, "You want the story, but you don't want to know"
Audio icon Act II
Audio icon Scene 1: Prison, "In the devil's grip"
Audio icon Scene 1: "You are not empty"
Disc 2 
Audio icon Act II (cont'd)
Audio icon Scene 2: 125th St, Harlem, "We are an African people"
Audio icon Scene 2: "When I was little"
Audio icon Scene 3: "If we are going to be free"
Audio icon Scene 3: "Jones is not your name"
Audio icon Scene 3: "We're not askin' Massa to sit at a lunch counter"
Audio icon Scene 4: "We are a nation"
Audio icon Scene 4: "The chickens come home to roost."
Audio icon Scene 5: Malcolm and Betty, "Are you sure?"
Audio icon Act III
Audio icon Scene 1: "Betrayal is on his lips"
Audio icon Scene 2: Betty's Aria, "When a man is lost"
Audio icon Scene 2: Mecca, "Bismillah hirrahman-irrahim"
Audio icon Scene 3: Riot
Audio icon Scene 3: "The name is Shabazz"
Audio icon Scene 4: I have learned so much in Africa"
Audio icon Scene 5: Audubon Ballroom
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