Invitation to Love

In May 2021, the New York Choral Society performed a work by Grammy and Pulitzer Prize winning composer Jennifer Higdon, following our New York premiere of her acclaimed The Singing Rooms with violinist Jennifer Koh in 2014.

Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African-American poet and writer to garner national critical acclaim with his many novels, short stories, essays, and poems Invitation to Love was published in 1897 and is among his most well-known poems.

Gordon Hall is a sculptor, performance-maker, and writer based in New York. Hall has presented solo exhibitions at The Renaissance Society, MIT List Visual Arts Center, and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (2019). Hall’s sculptures and performances have been exhibited in a variety of group settings including Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, SculptureCenter, Brooklyn Museum Whitney Museum of American Art, Hessel Museum at Bard College, Socrates Sculpture Park, and The Drawing Center.