Propelled by Walt Whitman's transcendent poetry of the "unbounded sea," third-year Ph.D. composition student Christian Guebert's choral song cycle "Voyaging" sets the lifelong journey of the universal voyager sailing forth from land with both mortal body and limitless soul aboard a ship. Harp and handbells form a narrative world of joy, loss, death, and love through which the music navigates.
Choral Arts Initiative in Orange County presents the world premiere of this short concert-length choral cycle, which is the culmination project of two years of study at UCLA for Guebert.