Michael Daugherty

Trail of Tears Michael Daugherty

(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). Daugherty describes this piece as "a musical journey into how the human spirit discovers ways to deal with upheaval, adversity and adapting to a new environment." Based on the tragedies faced by Native Americans as they were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands, specifically the Cherokee's relocation march known as the 'Trail of Tears.'