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The Pilgrim's Journey Home We are all pilgrims. Though each pilgrimage is unique, we share a yearning to find a place where we can feel at home. Each of us treasures memories of homes past, but as we face a wilderness of opposition, fear, isolation, or even oppression, we come to know that home is not so much a place as it is a state of being. The human spirit's power to persevere, transcend, and be at home is the essence of this recording. Here is the secret: Though we be travel-weary, a sense of home is possible all along our path as we press forward toward our eternal goal, spending ourselves in support of other pilgrims, sharing and sustaining their noble efforts. Such is the pilgrim's journey home. THE PERFROMERS BYU Singers A highly select ensemble of 40 skilled and versatile singer-musicians, University Singers is known for polished and moving concert performances in venues from Moscow to Jerusalem, London to Sydney, and New York to Vienna. Both critics and audience members report the ensemble to be musically precise, with an impressive flair for stylish and heartfelt interpretation. As a recording ensemble, University Singers has several CD titles available through Tantara Records. BYU Concert Choir The BYU Concert Choir provides a challenging choral experience for 90 advanced singers as it performs classic choral repertoire from every musical era, sprinkled with selections from the folkways of many cultures. With two elegant CDs in the Tantara Records catalog, the BYU Concert Choir is a top favorite of concert audiences. BYU Men's Chorus With 180 auditioned voices, the BYU Men's Chorus is the largest collegiate male choral organization in the United States. Its repertoire is wide and varied, ranging from traditional male-chorus literature to signature arrangements of hymns, international folk songs, and spirituals. Known not only for its polished musical discipline but also for its engaging performance style, the BYU Men's Chorus has captured the admiration of concert audiences throughout the western United States and through its popular CDs far beyond. BYU Women's Chorus With 180 auditioned voices selected each year, the BYU Women's Chorus exploded into the musical mainstream with its debut Tantara CD, Wondrous Love. This landmark CD has gained the attention of numerous composers and arrangers across the country, who have expressed their desire to write for the BYU Women's Chorus. The performances of the BYU Women's Chorus garner strong reviews and have been broadcast repeatedly on BYU-TV. With its diverse repertoire, this excellent chorus is well known for its extraordinary beauty of sound as well as for its entertaining, fun-filled showstoppers. BYU Philharmonic Orchestra The premier orchestra in the School of Music, the BYU Philharmonic Orchestra is made up almost entirely of undergraduate and graduate music majors. With 98 members, the ensemble gives 10 to 14 concerts each year and tours regionally every other year. In addition to its local and regional concerts, the orchestra is featured in regular worldwide broadcasts on BYU-TV (BYU's cable and satellite channel) and on Classical 89 (KBYU-FM). CONDUCTORS Ronald Staheli, BYU Singers Rosalind Hall, BYU Concert Choir and BYU Men's Chorus Jean Applonie, BYU Women's Chorus Kory Katseanes, BYU Philharmonic Orchestra CREDITS EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Dale Monson and Kory Katseanes, BYU School of Music CONCEIVED AND PRODUCED BY Ronald Staheli and Rosalind Hall POSTPRODUCTION COORDINATION BY Ben Fales POSTPRODUCTION CONSULTATION BY Ron Simpson EDITING AND MASTERING BY Troy Sales RECORDED BY Jon Holloman in the de Jong Concert Hall, Brigham Young University, April 2009. Special thanks to the accompanists Jared Oaks and Jill Ensign, the talented students who gave their whole selves to this ventur