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