Choruses of UC Davis: "Sorrow and Joy: An American Story"

Choruses of UC Davis
https://arts.ucdavis.edu/chorus

featuring the UC Davis Concert Band
https://arts.ucdavis.edu/concertband
Pete Nowlen, director (https://arts.ucdavis.edu/faculty-prof...)

and Rollo Dilworth, visiting composer

Program
Chamber Singers

Norman Dello Joio: A Jubilant Song

Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei

William L. Dawson: Soon-Ah-Will Be Done



Concert Band

Selections to be announced.



— Intermission —



Combined Choruses

Rollo Dilworth: Weather
with the UC Davis Concert Band
and Shinae Kim, piano

“Historically, the arts have always fulfilled the dual roles of responding to change while at the same time creating change. Claudia Rankine’s poem, Weather, is a poem that gives voice to the voiceless, especially those who have been and continue to be marginalized because of difference. It responds to and reflects realities that are both culturally specific and humanly universal. 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.”

—Rollo Dilworth

André Thomas: Mass of Love and Joy