The San Diego Women’s Chorus presents its annual winter concert, "Home Is Where the Heart Is" on December 6th & 7th. SDWC’s new Artistic Director Kathleen Hansen will lead the audience on a stirring musical journey exploring literal and emotional interpretations of home in the wonderfully intimate and acoustically spectacular St. Andrew's By-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Pacific Beach. Audiences will be treated to the uplifting and evocative concert experience SDWC is known for, with a diverse, multi-cultural program of traditional choral pieces, festive holiday carols and gorgeous contemporary selections.
Attendees will delight in renditions of popular songs like Mariah Carey’s divalicious “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Ben Harper’s reggae-infused “My Own Two Hands,” and the bluesy “Please Come Home for Christmas.” Concert goers will be swept away by celebratory songs from Nigeria, England and Puerto Rico and mesmerized by lyrics from feminist and fantasy writer Ursula LeGuin and, surprisingly enough, Edgar Allen Poe. SDWC will also sing a Hebrew call for peace and justice and a ballad about LGBT families and unconditional love through the eyes of a child.
"Home is Where the Heart Is" will have audiences reflecting about home in many ways — as a place of physical dwelling as well as where our heart dwells in our soul, a space where we find ourselves and our voice, where we live and love with our birth and chosen family, create community and memories, celebrate traditions, and seek understanding and acceptance.
Audiences will have three chances to attend this concert: Saturday December 6th and 2pm and 7pm and Sunday December 7th at 4pm. The performance space is accessible and the Sunday performance will be ASL interpreted for the hard of hearing.
