TCNJ World Premiere of Weather

TCNJ Wind Ensemble and Choirs presented the world premiere of Philadelphia-based composer Rollo Dilworth‘s “Weather” during two evening performances on Oct. 29-30, 2021 in the Mildred and Ernest E. Mayo Concert Hall. TCNJ’s Department of Music and the college’s Artivism Project are leading a consortium of performing arts institutions to commission Dilworth’s new extended work for mixed chorus and chamber winds. The composition sets to music the poem of the same title written by Claudia Rankine, acclaimed author, poet and professor of creative writing at New York University. The poem speaks to our national climate at the intersection of the pandemic and racial injustice — including the George Floyd case in Minneapolis — in June 2020. Read more about the collaboration: https://bit.ly/3xlE74V