Home is where the heart is. There is no place like home. Make yourself at home. You can never go home again. So what is home?
Mostly Madrigals will explore the idea of home in its winter concert, "A Place Called Home." The concert features home as a place in William Billings' early American hymn, "Chester"; home as national image in Verdelot's madrigal, "Italia Mia"; home through the eyes of children in Kurt Bestor's moving "Prayer of the Children"; and home as a place of rest in Frank Ticheli's "There Will Be Rest" and Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Rest".
The concert will also include two premiers: Minnesota composer Mark Bauer's "The Open Window," on a text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Stephen Houtz' "Los Alamos," an homage to his hometown in New Mexico.
The program is free and open. Free-will offering.
Mostly Madrigals is directed by Stephen Houtz, and the group serves as artists-in-residence St. George's.
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