The program Cartografía de los Anhelos is deeply ingrained in poetry and timbre. Ranging from dense textures to thin, thread-like sounds, it depicts desire, deep longing, and the search for new paths—or the return to familiar ones, as Darlene imagines in her work. Each piece builds a map of strong desires and relationships with the elements each composer explores, such as word, timbre, poetry, image, and tangible places—drawing both performers and audience into a dreamlike state.

Arcomusical's cutting-edge program, "Spirits in Exile," includes world premieres by tabla virtuoso Krissy Bergmark and iconoclastic composer David M. Gordon, as well as Afro-Cuban sacred music and masterpieces by Matt Ulery and Gregory Beyer. The question of where spirit can reside in an increasingly troubled world animates this program that surges with haunting, pulsing, and raging new sounds for the unmistakably beautiful sound of Arcomusical's unique sextet of berimbaus.

Midwestern Tongues  is a retrospective featuring works that Stare at the Sun has commissioned, premiered, or workshopped, as well as a couple other pieces by midwestern composers we have previously championed. Highlights of the program include Matthew Recio’s "Holdfast," which explores the agony of physical separation and the phenomenon of skin hunger; Alyssa Voth’s "The spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words," a rhapsody on the Pentecostal practice of speaking in tongues; and Ted Hearne’s "Privilege," which abstractly explores the causes and repercussions of socioeconomic inequality.

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