Live recording from our inaugural performance, "Reflections," in June, 2013. Featuring Melissa Dunphy's "Together" conducted by Brandon Elliott.

"Together" by Melissa Dunphy [Live]

Live recording from our inaugural performance, "Reflections," in June, 2013. Featuring Debra Scroggins' serene "A Dream Within a Dream" conducted by Brandon Elliott.

"A Dream Within A Dream" by Debra Scroggins [Live]

For Your Consideration for Best Choral Performance: From Wilderness.  Excerpt from the album, featuring track #25: Washington: No. 1, White Pass - No. 2, Snoqualmie Pass.

For Your Consideration: From Wilderness - Choral Arts Initiative: Excerpt "Snoqualmie Pass"

"I am Music" by composer Dale Trumbore, commissioned by Brandon Elliott and Choral Arts Initiative.  World premiere performance on July 19, 2014 in Newport Beach, CA during the Summer 2014 Performance: Reconciliation.  

Text:

I tell the story of love, the story of hate,  the story that saves, and damns.   
I am the incense upon which  prayers float to heaven.  
I am the smoke which palls over the field  of battle where men lie dying   with me on their lips.

I am close to the marriage altar,  and when the graves open, I stand nearby.   
I call the wanderer home,  I rescue the soul from the depths.  
I open the lips of lovers  and through me the dead whisper to the living.

I speak through the birds of the air,  the insects of the field,  
the crash of the waters on rock-ribbed shores,  the sighing of wind in the trees,  and I am even heard 
by the soul that knows me  in the clatter of wheels on city streets.

Through me spirits immortal speak  the message that makes the world weep,   and laugh, and wonder, and worship.

I know my brother, yet all men are my brothers;   
I am of them and they are of me,  for I am the instrument of God.
I am music.

-Anonymous 

"I am Music" [Live]

The West Coast Premiere of "Armistice 1918: Everyone Sang" by composer Craig Carnahan.  Live recording performed by Choral Arts Initiative on July 19, 2014 for the Summer 2014 Performance: Reconciliation.  Conducted by Brandon Elliott.  

Text: 

EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing;	 
And I was filled with such delight	 
As prisoned birds must find in freedom,	 
Winging wildly across the white	 
Orchards and dark-green fields; on—on—and out of sight.	         
  
Everyone’s voice was suddenly lifted;	 
And beauty came like the setting sun:	 
My heart was shaken with tears; and horror	 
Drifted away ... O, but Everyone	 
Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.

"Armistice 1918: Everyone Sang" [Live]

West coast premiere of "Neither Angels, Nor Demons, Nor Powers" by Timothy Takach.  A live recording from Choral Arts Initiative's Summer 2014 Performance: Reconciliation.  Directed by Brandon Elliott.  

"Neither Angels, Nor Demons, Nor Powers" [Live]

Live recording of "A Procession Winding Around Me" IV: "Reconciliation" by Jeffrey Van with Mr. Van himself accompanying on guitar.   Performed in July 2014 by the Choral Arts Initiative.  Brandon Elliott, Artistic Director.  

[This recording suffers from atmospheric "cracks" caused by the church rafters.  Please excuse the noise and enjoy the music.]

Text:

WORD over all, beautiful as the sky!	 
Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;	 
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil’d world:	 
... For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead;	 
I look where he lies, white-faced and still, in the coffin—I draw near
I bend down, and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.

IV: "Reconciliation" from A PROCESSION WINDING AROUND ME [Live]

Live performance of "A Song of Joys" by Nicholas Omiccioli.  Performed by Choral Arts Initiative in February 2015.  Conducted by Brandon Elliott.

A Song Of Joys [Live] by Nicholas Omiccioli

Regional premiere of "Unknown Region" by Connor Koppin.  Performed by Choral Arts Initiative in July 2015.  Conducted by Brandon Elliott.  

Unknown Region [Live] by Connor Koppin

Live recording from our April 3, 2016 performance, "Such Things As Flowers."  Featuring the west coast premiere of "As Is The Sea Marvelous", a PREMIERE|Project submission, by Matthew Hazzard.  Tenor soloist, Sammy Salvador.

[Live] "As Is The Sea Marvelous" by Matthew Hazzard

Live recording from our April 3, 2016 performance, "Such Things As Flowers." Featuring Dale Trumbore's "Light of Late November" composed by Dale Trumbore.  Brandon Elliott, Artistic Director.

[Live] "Light Of Late November" by Dale Trumbore

Live recording from our inaugural performance, "Reflections," in June, 2013.  Featuring Dale Warland's majestic "Stars" conducted by Brandon Elliott.  This performance of "Stars" is a West Coast Premiere. 

"Stars" by Dale Warland

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