The Orange County Women's Chorus will fill a Huntington Beach church Saturday evening with a medley of Asian sounds.
The chorus' one-night performance titled "Eastern Portraits" at St. Wilfrid of York Episcopal Church will span different cultures and musical generations from across Asia, ranging from Chinese folk songs to rocking dance numbers inspired by Bollywood films.
"This will be a colorful, exciting, noisy concert, with a splendid reception afterward," said Eliza Rubenstein, OCWC's artistic director who also directs choral and vocal activities at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa.
"Our past concert themes have run the gamut from 'Six Centuries of Girl Groups' to 'Banned Books Set to Music,'" she added. "But in nearly 15 years, we'd never performed a concert of Asian music."
The concert will include contemporary works from Chen Yi and British composer Gustav Holst. The choir will perform Holst's renditions of poetry by Kalidasa, a fourth century Sanskrit writer.