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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“And when there is the possibility of a storm…..”
March 18, 2019 | Dorothy SmithDr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, singer-song writer, historian, civil rights activist, founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock and a very important mentor of mine. I will never forget the moment in my life over 25 years ago when I heard Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon introduce the spiritual Wade in the Water. I knew she was speaking both literally and metaphorically.
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