In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, New Orleans native son Terence Blanchard created an impassioned, GRAMMY-award winning work— A Tale of God's Will: A Requiem for Katrina. This evening-length emotional tour-de-force of anger, rage, compassion, melancholy, and beauty features Blanchard the E-Collective, as well as Chamber Orchestra.

An important jumpstart for A Tale of God's Will was director Spike Lee's decision to document the aftermath of Katrina on film, in what turned out to be the four-hour award-winning HBO documentary, When the Levees Broke, which aired last year. Lee, who has enlisted Blanchard on numerous occasions to score his films, such as Mo' Better Blues, Malcolm X, and Inside Man, tapped him once again for his documentary. Four of the tracks from the documentary were given new arrangements and expanded rounding out an work consisting of nine new pieces inspired by New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina.

To commemorate this tragedy and pay homage to its victims, Blanchard will tour this work in 2025, collaborating with orchestras all over the world. For this updated version of the song cycle, Blanchard has once again tapped his visual arts collaborator Andrew F. Scott to create a tapestry from still photos taken in the aftermath of the hurricane.