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Season 28 | 2021

THE REWAKING: The return to singing

Saturday | 20 November 2021 | 3pm 

St John’s Episcopal Church 

114 20th Avenue Southeast | Olympia 


The Esoterics returned to St John's in Olympia for its first public performance in almost two years, with a program called THE REWAKING.  This concert revisited some of the group’s favorite pieces from its most recently completed season in 2019. That season, with the theme “elements of integrity,” explored four concepts -- vulnerability, inclusivity, honesty, and humility -- and featured newly-written choral music by living composers who comprised “the new majority” – namely: women, transgender people, people of color, and members of the greater LGBTQIA+ community.  The Esoterics offered two options to attend this concer: either as a member of the in-person audience, or a "virtual" viewer of the live-stream concert, you may join us for this contemporary choral contemplation of love, peace, renewal, reunion, and gratitude.


CONCERT REPERTOIRE:  


All we need (2015)

by Dale Trumbore   


Gratitude sutra (2013)

by Forrest Pierce  


I carry your heart with me (2003) 

by Abbie Betinis 


The gentlest thing (2001) 

by Trevor Weston  


Invitation to love (2016)

by Jennifer Higdon   


Make peace (2016)

by David Lang  


November prayer, from Messages to myself (2007)

by Christopher Theofanidis  


Perhaps (2017)

by Dale Trumbore   


The rewaking (2005) 

by Augusta Read Thomas    


Songs of lowly life (2011)

  Dawn

  Life

  Not they who soar

  Lullaby

  Old

by Stacy Garrop  


Together (2012) 

by Melissa Dunphy 


We walked through the trees (2014)

by Sarah Rimkus  


What it might say (2015) 

by Ted Hearne

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