Zanaida Robles
John Malveaux of
writes:
Sat 7 PM · St. John's Cathedral · Los Angeles, California
Please read what amazing composer, Zanaida Robles, has to
say about her composition based on text from Ntozake
Shange play "For Colored Girls" included during
"I
was glad to give voice to poetry about one of the most
painful
experiences a woman can face. It is not an
experience with which I am
personally acquainted. But
Shange's words about abortion tapped a deep
resonance
within me. I was 16 years old when I first read these words.
At the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts my
friend and
classmate Gloria Williams felt compelled to dance
this poetry to life.
She asked me to compose the music. The
music came to me instantaneously,
as if a desperate woman
was singing this song right into my ear. The
words, "and
nobody came, cuz nobody knew" still strike me. The
physical
pain, the blood, the intense fear, the profound
loneliness in a keeping
such an unbearable secret: this is a
trauma that maybe never heals. Like
I said, it's not an
experience with which I am personally acquainted.
But it
resonates deeply for me, not just because I'm a woman, but
because I'm a human being" - Zanaida Robles
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