Season 15: Rewritten
Sun, Nov 15
|St. Mark Presbyterian Church
Our first experience in Season 15 reimagines tradition, tracing the line between where Choral Arts Initiative began and where we're headed, opening with CAI’s first ever commission, “I Am Music” by Dale Trumbore. This program honors where we've been while reaching toward what's next.
Time & Location
Nov 15, 2026, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM PST
St. Mark Presbyterian Church, 2200 San Joaquin Hills Rd, Newport Beach, CA 92660, USA
About the event
Join us for Rewritten, our Season 15 opener, where the past becomes material for something new. Dale Trumbore's I Am Music, CAI's very first commissioned work, returns alongside Dale Warland's Always Singing, reconnecting us with music and artistic relationships from CAI's earliest years.
From there, Rewritten looks outward, as today's composers encounter ideas, texts, and traditions inherited from the past. Ethan Soledad's A Thing That Wants Virginia receives its world premiere, while Stuart Beatch's Girl Hours reclaims the story of women whose contributions to astronomy were long overlooked. Cecilia McDowall's Crucifixus Reimagined responds to centuries of choral tradition through a distinctly contemporary voice, and Joe Twist's Hymn of Ancient Lands transforms one of the earliest surviving texts in the English language for today's choral sound.
Together, these works ask what it means to inherit something and to encounter it anew. Fifteen seasons in, CAI honors where we've been the way we know best: by continuing to…
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