By Eddie Silva on October 21, 2009 2:41 PM
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Tuesday afternoon composer Rollo Dilworth was in Powell Hall
for a photo session with a photographer from UM-St. Louis. It was indeed a
homecoming for Dilworth. He grew up a few blocks from Powell Hall, on St. Louis Avenue.
He was a member of the Saint Louis
Symphony IN UNISON® Chorus, and at UMSL studied with Robert Ray, In Unison's
director. Dilworth continued his studies at Northwestern, lived and taught in Chicago for 14 years, and recently moved to Philadelphia where he now teaches at TempleUniversity.
Dilworth's Freedom's
Plow receives its World Premiere at Powell this week, on the program that includes Tippett's A Child of Our Time. Both works embrace the African-American spiritual tradition. The sung
text to Freedom's Plow works as a
kind of invocation, "Keep Your Hand On
The Plow! Hold On!," taken from a poem by Langston Hughes. Dilworth took a
few minutes to talk with me about Freedom's Plow on this video blog.
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