Color of Worship 2009

Talia Johnson performing with New Creation and the Chorale of DC. Talia was performing with Michael Derry, Brenda Derry, and Caeli Lohr, but, unfortunately, they were not captured in these shots (by Evan Wilder).

Talia’s recollections:

It was an amazing day and a heart stirring performance. I had never performed with a choir singing Let All Associate before (we hadn’t even time to practice with them), so when the chorale started singing along, I was like, “Wow!”–and in such a beautiful and sacred spot and on such a blessed occasion. It was almost too much to handle! I held it together for that performance, but at our next performance that day at a wedding I was overcome with emotion and pretty much cried through the whole song.

Talia’s and the Chorale’s color coordination was a divinely planned “coincidence” that made us smile. Ha!

The video below, by Jack Gordon, “documents a tour of sites visited by ‘Abdu’l-Baha, son of the Prophet-Founder of the Baha’i Faith Baha’u'llah, during his historic visit to Washington D.C. in 1912. The tour ends with the annual Color of Worship celebration at Howard University.” You will hear and see the Let All Associate performance starting at 13:04. What an honor!

‘Abdu’l-Baha DC Tour from Jack On the Road on Vimeo.

From the Washington DC Baha’i Website’s Color of Worship News Story

The Washington, DC metro Baha’i community along with the Howard University campus commemorated the 1912 visit of Abdu’l-Baha to Rankin Chapel with a rich artistic program on April 4, 2009.

The program included musical performances by New Creation and Talia Safa, Darnell Moore, Gilberto Issac Saavedra and the Baha’i Chorale of DC. Poets and spoken word performers included Farinaz Firouzi, Andrea Noel, Dustin Baker and Lisa Robinson.

Visit the Baha’i Community of Washington, DC website to read the whole post, view more pictures, and a video slide show that was created to tell the story of ‘Abdu’l-Baha and his visit.

Photos by Evan Wilder http://evanwilder.com/