Journeys
November 1, 2026 • Benaroya Hall in Seattle

MOR opens the season with Journeys, a program built around narratives of displacement and hope. Aligned with the composer’s 90th birthday, Steve Reich’s Different Trains layers the sounds of his childhood cross-country trips in America with echoes of the trains that carried European children toward a very different fate. MOR commission Stormy Seas, by Iranian American composer Sahba Aminikia, tells the true stories of five child refugees who crossed dangerous waters in search of safety in new lands. The program also includes songs from We Go On, Oswego, honoring women who found refuge in America's only World War II refugee camp, performed by mezzo-soprano Lily Bogas, and “Lyric” from Black American composer George Walker’s Lyric String Quartet, written for the grandmother who survived slavery.

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