O King Dreaming - composed and performed by Jorge Caballero

O Dreaming King was written between June and September of 2020 as a kind of epitaph that renders tribute to the countless victims of racial violence throughout the world. As evidence of racial violence metastasized throughout the United States in the summer of 2020, I reflected on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. His most memorable statement, “I have a dream,“ loomed as a moral indictment in contrast to the reality faced by minorities around the world. The year of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the Italian composer Luciano Berio wrote a remarkable work in his memory, titled ’O King,’ which later became part of his 1968 Sinfonia. Taking the sounds of that work as a point of departure, I sought to reflect on the state of Dr. King’s dream. After more than half a century of his legacy, is it his dream the one this world lives? And if not, in whose dream are we living? The score I used for this video represents an earlier draft of this piece. Parts of it h