Home No More Home To Me

A choral meditation on the pain of leaving home — and of returning home but finding it no longer recognizable. It is inspired specifically by my own experience living in England for four years and seeing my home country of the United States become increasingly strange to me; and more generally by the plight of the countless people all over the world who are either driven from their homes or see their homelands transformed into unrecognizable places by oppressive regimes and war. The text comes from selections of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Songs of Travel XVI.”