Contact: sydhawk@umich.edu EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT “The Sound of Us,” a new documentary produced by Yamaha Entertainment Group, seeks to explore the impacts of music as an artform in today’s chaotic world. It features Eugene Rogers, professor and director of choral activities at the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance, who discusses “ Seven Last Words of the Unarmed ” and his decision to premiere the powerful multi-movement choral work by Atlanta-based composer Joel Thompson at U-M in 2015—long before audiences rediscovered the song earlier this year in the midst of civil rights reckoning. Thompson, along with current SMTD graduate student Julian Goods and U-M alumnus Teddy Gotfredson—both members of the Michigan Men’s Glee Club at the time of the premiere—will also discuss their experiences with the work. Its lyrics are made up of the dying works of seven Black men who were killed by the police.