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| | Earth, Sea, and Sky: The Beautiful Poise of Lightness
The Choral Arts Ensemble of Portland opens its 58th concert season with concerts that explore our connection to the natural world and to each other through various writers and thinkers who speak of the environment as a place of safety, comfort, and beauty. Utilizing texts from Wendell Berry, John Muir and other environmentalists, Alex Berko’s A Sacred Place connects the old with the new, the sacred with the secular, and the individual with their community. Jake Runestad’s Secrets of the Sea sets texts by Whitman, Longfellow, and Inuit shaman Uvavnuk to take listeners on a dramatic musical journey of the human spirit that questions the meaning of existence while evoking the sights and sounds of the sea. We also continue our collaboration with Cascadia Composers and the National Association of Composers USA this season, singing four new works by contemporary American composers on these themes. We hope you will join us for concerts that explore community, nature, compassion, and healing. | Buy tickets |
| | CAE Yuletide: A Winter Day
Join us for classic and contemporary choral music to celebrate the holiday season, including Sarah Quartel’s A Winter Day, which sets texts by Sara Teasdale, Lucy Maud Montgomery (of ‘Anne of Green Gables’ fame) and others to depict vivid images of a beautiful and crisp winter. In our continued collaboration with Cascadia Composers and the National Association of Composers USA this season, we will also feature three new seasonal works by contemporary American composers, as well as other sacred and secular works inspired by this season of light. | Buy tickets |
| | CAE with Special Guest Soloist Alfrelynn Roberts presents Spiritual Reflection: Music of the Soul
As one of the largest bodies of American folk song to reach the twenty-first century, African American Spirituals reflect the complexity and contradictions of the nation's history, with songs of deeply meaningful, human experiences, relevant to struggles of justice, freedom and spiritual wholeness in all times and places. We are very excited to welcome guest soloist Alfrelynn Roberts, who, in addition to serving as Artistic Director of Portland Opera, is also a celebrated and accomplished performer and former member of the Moses Hogan Singers. Join us as we explore this powerful and inspirational musical heritage that occupies an important place in the tapestry of American music. | Buy tickets |