In the opening concert of their 11th season, the award-winning OC-based new music choral ensemble, Choral Arts Initiative, explores the question of what makes a home: is it a place? A feeling? Or the people who live in it? The program is anchored by the world premiere of Dale Trumbore’s The Opposites Game for chorus and piano. Brendan Constantine's text for the work plays with the idea of having a "right" answer as it asks what may be an unanswerable question: “What is the opposite of a gun?” Other works on the program include the West Coast premieres of Michael Gilbertson’s Migration, Ayanna Woods’ To Propagate a Home, and the world premiere of Dylan Tran’s Tupelo Poems.

Program Repertoire

Migration by Michael Gilbertson (West Coast Premiere)

The Opposites Game by Dale Trumbore (World Premiere)

Whispers of Jasmine by Julia Adolphe

To Propagate a Home by Ayanna Woods (West Coast Premiere)

“Home” from The Sacred Veil by Eric Whitacre

Tupelo Poems by Dylan Tran (World Premiere)

Guest Artist: Kevin Mills, cello