STG is honored to present the Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem, a musical oratorio, featuring over 100 local voices, 8 soloists, an African drum ensemble, and 40+-piece orchestra. The requiem is inspired by a book authored by Dr. Marilyn Nelson entitled Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem, which has inspired a Seattle community-wide exploration of the story of Fortune, an enslaved African who served a doctor in post-Colonial Waterbury, Connecticut. After Fortune's death in 1798, he was dissected by the doctor. His bones were boiled, stripped and preserved, studied, and later, displayed as an anatomical specimen at a local museum. Fortune remained unburied and without memorialization until 2013. Dr. Nelson's book is an epic poem commemorating Fortune's life.