Classical Composer Jacqueline Hopkins,  who hails from Brooklyn, NY, first studied music with Louvina G. Pointer, mother of classical violinist Noel Pointer, as a member of the choir at Brooklyn's I.S. 61. She continued to learn about music at Hunter College of the City University of New York as a member of the choir, under the direction of maestro Paul F. Mueller. Works she performed included the Requiem Masses of both Gabriel Fauré and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Finally, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hopkins spent about two years composing a Requiem of her own, a ten-movement work entitled "The Hopkins Requiem." The movements, written in Latin, are as follows: "Introit: Requiem," "Kyrie," "Dies Irae," "Rex Tremendae," "Offertory: Domine," "Sanctus," "Osanna In Excelsis," "Agnus Dei," "Jerusalem," and "Amen."