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Artistic Director Robert Istad on Tarik O’Regan and Pacific Chorale

Tarik O’Regan’s music captured my attention when I heard a live performance of The Ecstasies Above in 2007. Tarik’s choral writing forever changed my musical perspective. His music grabbed me with its rhythmic audacity, harmonic daring and unique wit. From that first hearing, I hoped I would be able to collaborate with Tarik in some way. At my invitation, Tarik graciously became our composer in residence at Pacific Chorale shortly after I was appointed Artistic Director, and this recording shares some of the fruits of our collaboration.

Our concert took place in Samueli Theater at Segerstrom Center for the Arts on May 18th, 2019. We reset the hall and held our recording sessions on the evening of May 20th and the afternoon of May 21st.

Pacific Chorale includes up to 140 singers when we perform in the 1,800-seat Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, but I selected a core ensemble of 24 singers and five string players from Salastina Music Society for our Tarik O’Regan concert and recording in the smaller 300-seat Samueli Theater:

Soprano
Chelsea Chaves
Rebecca Hasquet
Kathryn Lillich
Katie Martini
Maria Cristina Navarro
Joslyn Amber Sarshad

Alto
Denean R. Dyson
Stacey Kikkawa
Laurel Sanders
Jane Hyunjung Shim
Alison Stickley
Angel Yu McKay

Tenor
Nicholas A. Preston
Daniel Alvarez
Saunder Choi
Alan Garcia
Johnny G. Gonzales
Nate Widelitz

Bass
Ryan Thomas Antal
Matthew Kellaway
Yannick Lambrecht
Jackson McDonald
Jason Pano
Raphael Poon


Tarik and I thought carefully about our album title. We eventually suggested All Things Common, also our opening track, presented in this YouTube video. Tarik set three texts from the New Testament in this work: Luke 11:17, Romans 14:19 and Acts 4:32. Taken together, they serve as a reminder that we are strongest when we work constructively together, and that we fragment and disintegrate when we fight continuously amongst ourselves. All Things Common reminds us that people thrive when we strive for the benefit of all mankind and share the bounties of this world. These strike me as reasonable ideas in any era.

--Robert Istad
Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons Artistic Director of the Pacific Chorale


All Things Common (Tarik O’Regan, 2017)

Rebecca Hasquet, soprano

Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth. Luke 11:17

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. Romans 14:19

And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which they possessed was their own; but they had all things common. Acts 4:32