![]() ![]() Colleen Sears, Professor of Music at The College of New Jersey, encourages us to honor the intent of Claudia Rankine's poetry and Rollo Dilworth's music to become better citizens in our communities and to bridge divides through our shared humanity. This guide offers an opportunity for everyone to deply engage with Weather and understand its critically important social and historical context. There is a companion resource for Weather that is intended for students, educators, conductors, and audiences to learn more about the social, political, and historical context of this work. This work for choir, narrator, piano with optional Wind Symphony or Chamber ensemble, is to be a learning and growing experience for the singers, the audience, and the conductor teacher in all ways emotional and intellectual. Professor Claudia Rankine challenges all of us (no matter your background or lived experience) to know better, to do better, to take action, and to become agents of social justice and social change. ![]() It responds to and reflects realities that are both culturally specific and humanly universal. Weather is a poem that gives voice to the voiceless, especially those who have been and continue to be marginalized because of difference. Historically, the arts have always fulfilled the dual roles of responding to change while at the same time creating change. Rollo Dilworth : Weather: Stand the Storm In addition to his research in African-American music, he also serves as Minister of Music at Martin Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Chicago. He is an award-winning composer and his work has taken him to the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. He is an oft-published composer of choral music, with emphasis in the areas of spirituals and gospel inspired works. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Dilworth serves as conductor of the North Park University Gospel Choir and the University Choir. Dilworth has a bachelor of science in music education from Case Western Reserve University a M.Ed. In 2003 the University honored him with the 2003 Zenos Hawkinson Award for Teaching and Campus Leadership. Rollo Dilworth is assistant professor of music, director of the bachelor of music education program, and director of the choral program at North Park University, Chicago, IL, where he has taught since 1996. ![]()
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