A Home Is Found At Christmas
Chorus & Large Ensemble
chorus with full orchestra
work detail
instrumentation: SATB and orchestra
completion date: august 2023
duration: 5 minutes
texts: On an original text by the composer
events
O NIGHT DIVINE! CHRISTMAS WITH CHORAL ARTS
Choral Arts Society of Washington - Marie Bucoy-Calavan, conductor
The Kennedy Center Concert Hall - Washington, DC
7:00 pm
Marie Bucoy-Calavan leads the Choral Arts Society of Washington in their beloved holiday concert with chorus and orchestra, which will feature a new commissioned world premiere original holiday work by Dominick DiOrio. More information at choralarts.org.
O NIGHT DIVINE! CHRISTMAS WITH CHORAL ARTS
Choral Arts Society of Washington - Marie Bucoy-Calavan, conductor
The Kennedy Center Concert Hall - Washington, DC
2:00 pm
Marie Bucoy-Calavan leads the Choral Arts Society of Washington in their beloved holiday concert with chorus and orchestra, which will feature a new commissioned world premiere original holiday work by Dominick DiOrio. More information at choralarts.org.
audio
A Home Is Found at Christmas
videos
A Home Is Found at Christmas
Choral Arts Society of Washington
- Marie Bucoy-Calavan, guest conductor
- World Premiere Performance and Recording
- The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall, Monday, December 18, 2023
commission and dedication
This work was commissioned byThe Choral Arts Society of Washington and Laura S. Pruitt, and it is dedicated to Executive Director Tad Czyzewski and conductor Marie Bucoy-Calavan.
program note
A HOME IS FOUND AT CHRISTMAS was commissioned by The Choral Arts Society of Washington and Laura S. Pruitt for their O Night Divine! Concert in December 2023 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It is dedicated to their Executive Director Tad Czyzewski and the premiere conductor Marie Bucoy-Calavan. I am grateful and honored to have been commissioned by Choral Arts previously—with the US Marine Band in 2019—and to have served as a guest conductor with the organization in Spring of 2023. This original song is my gift to the singers of Choral Arts in thanksgiving for welcoming me into their musical family.
- Dominick DiOrio, August 2023
text
A Home Is Found At Christmas by Dominick DiOrio
A home is found at Christmas In places near and far, In home-cooked meals and ringing peals, A chock-full cookie jar, In stories told and memories old, A lightly struck guitar, A home is found this Christmas In all lit by the star.
A home is found at Christmas For those cast far astray, In letters sent and evenings spent In waiting for the day, ‘Til they return and cure the yearn That will not go away… A home is found this Christmas For loved ones soon to stay.
A home is found at Christmas For those who wait and see, A promise cast, a longing fast, A faith in what will be, A vacant sky, an urgent cry, An oath, a prayer, a plea… A home is found this Christmas For all we wish would be.
And if you long at Christmas For a home to call your own, A chance to rest not as a guest But as a soul full-known, Recall the gift made for us swift By God made flesh and bone… A home is found this Christmas For all whom grace was shown.
A home is found at Christmas In boundaries we destroy, In chains released, in heart’ning feast, In all that we enjoy, In windswept love and heaven’s dove, In newborn girl and boy… A home is found this Christmas In bright, enduring joy.
Copyright © 2023 Dominick DiOrio & DD3 Publications. All rights reserved.
information
events
O NIGHT DIVINE! CHRISTMAS WITH CHORAL ARTS
Choral Arts Society of Washington - Marie Bucoy-Calavan, conductor
The Kennedy Center Concert Hall - Washington, DC
7:00 pm
Marie Bucoy-Calavan leads the Choral Arts Society of Washington in their beloved holiday concert with chorus and orchestra, which will feature a new commissioned world premiere original holiday work by Dominick DiOrio. More information at choralarts.org.
O NIGHT DIVINE! CHRISTMAS WITH CHORAL ARTS
Choral Arts Society of Washington - Marie Bucoy-Calavan, conductor
The Kennedy Center Concert Hall - Washington, DC
2:00 pm
Marie Bucoy-Calavan leads the Choral Arts Society of Washington in their beloved holiday concert with chorus and orchestra, which will feature a new commissioned world premiere original holiday work by Dominick DiOrio. More information at choralarts.org.
audio
A Home Is Found at Christmas
videos
A Home Is Found at Christmas
Choral Arts Society of Washington
- Marie Bucoy-Calavan, guest conductor
- World Premiere Performance and Recording
- The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall, Monday, December 18, 2023
commission and dedication
This work was commissioned byThe Choral Arts Society of Washington and Laura S. Pruitt, and it is dedicated to Executive Director Tad Czyzewski and conductor Marie Bucoy-Calavan.
program note
A HOME IS FOUND AT CHRISTMAS was commissioned by The Choral Arts Society of Washington and Laura S. Pruitt for their O Night Divine! Concert in December 2023 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It is dedicated to their Executive Director Tad Czyzewski and the premiere conductor Marie Bucoy-Calavan. I am grateful and honored to have been commissioned by Choral Arts previously—with the US Marine Band in 2019—and to have served as a guest conductor with the organization in Spring of 2023. This original song is my gift to the singers of Choral Arts in thanksgiving for welcoming me into their musical family.
- Dominick DiOrio, August 2023
text
A Home Is Found At Christmas by Dominick DiOrio
A home is found at Christmas In places near and far, In home-cooked meals and ringing peals, A chock-full cookie jar, In stories told and memories old, A lightly struck guitar, A home is found this Christmas In all lit by the star.
A home is found at Christmas For those cast far astray, In letters sent and evenings spent In waiting for the day, ‘Til they return and cure the yearn That will not go away… A home is found this Christmas For loved ones soon to stay.
A home is found at Christmas For those who wait and see, A promise cast, a longing fast, A faith in what will be, A vacant sky, an urgent cry, An oath, a prayer, a plea… A home is found this Christmas For all we wish would be.
And if you long at Christmas For a home to call your own, A chance to rest not as a guest But as a soul full-known, Recall the gift made for us swift By God made flesh and bone… A home is found this Christmas For all whom grace was shown.
A home is found at Christmas In boundaries we destroy, In chains released, in heart’ning feast, In all that we enjoy, In windswept love and heaven’s dove, In newborn girl and boy… A home is found this Christmas In bright, enduring joy.
Copyright © 2023 Dominick DiOrio & DD3 Publications. All rights reserved.
