Heard this lovely, simple, homemade song on NPR the other day, and wanted to hear it again. It's a "Requiem" for tsunami victims, used again for Katrina victims, written by a woman named Eliza Gilkyson and sung by her and her daughter.
A true requiem is a fixed-text mass for the dead; this song does not use the correct liturgical text so the name "requiem" is metaphorical only. Gilkyson isn't the first to think of this; Brahms made up his own text too.
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