Black Dandelions (2026)
Photo Credit: Michaela Bowman, Lexington Philharmonic
Instrumentation: 2222/4231/timp/3perc/pf/strings/narrator/electronics/opt. video
Duration: 20’
Black Dandelions: An American Triptych is a 20-minute full orchestra work that interrogates nuanced and contentious relationships between Blackness, land, American history, and the lived experiences of Black Womxn in the American South. Featuring a prelude and triptych, the piece features text by Brittany J. Green inspired by Zora Neale Hurston, alongside text by Crystal Wilkinson (Motherland), Jaki Shelton Green (who will be the messengers of this land), and Ebony Stewart (Womxn God). Black Dandelions was commissioned by the Lexington Philharmonic as a part of the 2025-2026 Saykaly Garbulinska Composer Residency with additional support from Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra.