How Solidarity Dividends Flow from Activist Art
April 24, 2022 | Dorothy SmithWhat is a Solidarity Dividend? The title of our concert comes from a book by Heather McGee called The Sum of Us: What racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together. Our prospering is the dividend we all receive when we work together across real and imagined differences. These dividends are life affirming. As artistic expression moves inside of
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Two Newly Commissioned Choral Works to Open “Our Planet – Our Lives”
September 9, 2019 | Catherine RomaThe World House Choir commissioned two African American composers to write short contemporary choral works to complement our upcoming performance of Missa Gaia. We will open our concert with these two newly commissioned pieces: Norman Whiteside’s Just Imagine If and Ayanna Woods’ To Propagate a Home. Composer Ayanna Woods Ayanna Woods is a gifted and much sought after young composer
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