Choral Chameleon will present “We Are Seeds” on Nov. 21 and 22, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church.

The program, which centers on immigrant narratives and features works spanning displacement, renewal, and cultural memory, features Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s “Romancero Gitano;” the world premiere of Laura Jobin-Acosta’s “Sometimes I Wonder,” which sets poetry by Honduran adolescent girls living in an orphanage; Joan Szymko’s “Make Ready Your Beauty;” Rich Campbell’s “Border;” Moira Smiley’s “Refugee;” and Pete Seeger’s “If I Had a Hammer.”

There will also be new arrangements of Harry Belafonte’s “We Are the Wave” and Paula Cole’s “Comin’ Down”  as well as the New York Premiere of Dorothy Robson’s “Winter Wheat,” among others.

“Given the hateful and often false rhetoric we hear about immigrants and refugees, we wanted to introduce choral singing into the conversation to soften the tone, induce empathy, and encourage real dialogue,” said Dr. Vince Peterson, Choral Chameleon’s founder and artistic director, per an official press release. “Choral music has a unique way of relieving people of their defenses—it reaches both the human condition and the human ego at once.”