Dr. Maya Angelou gifted us with incalculable wisdom, expressed with a powerful dignity, grace and truth via her poetry and writings. While none of her texts were directly set to music, composer Rosephanye Powell’s ‘Still I Rise’ has its roots in Dr. Maya’s writing. The composer’s explanation is here, the score’s text is in the first comment below; the video is by Vox Femina Los Angeles (Iris Levine, cond.) who commissioned the score. • The composer explains: “‘Still I Rise’ was inspired by the poem of the same name by poet laureate Maya Angelou. It is a womens anthem, saluting the strength to persevere through lifes difficulties–low self-esteem, physical and emotional abuse, prejudice, abandonment, and the like. In summary, though a womans life or past may be filled with tears and heartaches, with each day that she finds herself still living, she finds that she has grown stronger and risen a little higher because her circumstances have not overcome her. Thus, every new day can be one of hope and joy because regardless of the past, today, still I rise!” May it be so.
Posted on: Wed, 28 May 2014 21:18:25 +0000
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