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The Arizona Masterworks Chorale explores the many 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.

Saturday, May 4
at 7:30 PM

All Saint’s Episcopal Church,
Phoenix

Sunday, March 2 at 3:00 PM
All Saints’ Episcopal Church
6300 North Central Avenue, Phoenix

Concert Program

Goin' Home Antonìn 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, Tenor Soloist
Amazing Grace arr. Almon Bock
A setting for two singers, Claire Penneau, Alto and Patrick West, Bass, Soloists
Danny Boy Frederick Weatherly
Farewell to a young man going off to war, James Stirling, Tenor Soloist
Love is Love is Love Abbie Betinis
AUDIENCE SING-ALONG - 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 song from 1926, recorded by .... everybody!

The program is about an hour in duration.  It is performed without intermission and is subject to change without notice