Location
Phoenix, Arizona, 85012
About this event
The Arizona Masterworks Chorale explores
stories of “coming home” with songs of return and restoration.
There’s the story of returning to a warm and familiar family gathering, as in traditional holiday pieces (“There’s no place like home for the holidays”). But also stories of refugees fleeing violence in their homelands or returning after a brutal regime is toppled; those who’ve lost homes and loved ones to catastrophes like last year’s hurricanes and the recent fires in Los Angeles; and those who after years of homelessness, rough living, and medical trauma have to build an entirely new understanding of what it means to have a safe and secure place to live.
Be with us to hear these and more, through the exquisite beauty of poetry and sound, with special guests from Circle the City.
Concert Program
- Goin' Home (Antonín Dvořák, Text by William Arms Fisher, From the Largo of the symphony “From the New World,” Op. 95)
- Waiting (Howard Helvey, A poem by John Burroughs)
- Walk In My Shoes (André J. Thomas, a poem by Neil Lorenz
- Coming Home (Jay Althouse, words and music by the composer)
- Choose Something Like a Star (Randall Thompson, a poem by Robert Frost, from "Frostiana")
- The Road Not Taken (Randall Thompson, a poem by Robert Frost, from "Frostiana")
- Amazing Grace (arr. Michael John Trotta, a new choral setting of a well-known traditional hymn)
- May The Road Rise to Meet You (Noel Paul Stookey, arr. Sylvia Chapa, a traditional Irish blessing. James Stirling, soloist)
- Amazing Grace (arr. Almon Bock, a setting for two singers. Claire Penneau and Patrick West, soloists)
- Danny Boy (Frederic Weatherly, a farewell to a young man setting off to war.James Stirling, soloist)
- Love is Love is Love (Abbie Betinis, From the Justice Choir Songbook, Volume 1)
- The Road Home (arr, Stephen Paulus, a poem by Michael Dennis Browne)
- Bright Canaan (arr. Alice Parker & Robert Shaw. Traditional, a dream of escaping slavery in the American South.)
- Blue Skies (Irving Berlin, arr. Steve Zegree, a 1926 song recorded by .... everybody!)
The program is about an hour in duration. It is performed without intermission and is subject to change without notice