Getting To Know Bayard Rustin
July 17, 2018 | Catherine RomaIn early 2016 I was visiting my long-time friend and colleague the composer, arranger and conductor, Steve Milloy. Steve mentioned to me that he’d been commissioned by a group of five LGBTQ choirs to write a major work about Bayard Rustin — a gay, African-American, Quaker, civil rights activist. Little is known about Rustin who not only mentored Martin Luther
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Genesis of a Concert
August 27, 2017 | Dorothy SmithIdeas for our upcoming concert started percolating early this spring. The World House Choir had commissioned an arrangement of I Stand for You (Michael McDonald, 1993) and the lyrics from that song: “Together We Bring on the Light” resonated with me. I have the late Cheryl Welch — friend, former Assistant Director of Admissions at Antioch College, and beloved Yellow
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