Pier One Theatre presents

We Are Phoenix
An oratorio for Voice and Strings by Tim Takach
Conducted by Kyle Schneider

"We are Phoenix" is a new work being performed by a consortium of choirs located in all 50 states. The Kenai Peninsula Community Chorus & Homer High School Concert Choir are proud to be the Alaskan representatives. Presented here with other material focusing on loss, redemption and recovery.

April 25 & 26 at 7:00PM
Homer High School Mariner Theatre

“The Earth has shown itself to be a powerful model of how to overcome obstacles through continual rebirth and evolution. Through poetry from multiple authors, We Are Phoenix illuminates the analogy between humans and our planet: we both suffer loss and devastation and yet rise again and again, becoming stronger each time.”

Additional works include:
"Weep, O mine eyes" by John Bennett
"Locust iste" by Anton Bruckner
"Cantique de Jean Racine" by Gabriel Fauré
"O schöne Nacht!, Op. 92" by Johannes Brahms

"We move back and forth between grief and laughter,
each adding meaning to the other.
Alone, now together.
Broken, now whole.
We are Fire. we are ashes.
We are Phoenix."
excerpt from poem "I Fall, I Rise" by C.J. Nichols