Art has always had the power to reinforce the beauty, promise, and magnitude of spiritual devotion. With Open Source, the Axiom Quartet and baritone Timothy Jones musically embody the First Congregational Church of Houston’s ethos of searching, openness and inclusion. Taking inspiration from an archival interview with the church’s founders, Jacqui Sutton’s libretto creatively unfolds as an “everyman’s journey” for belonging. Karl Blench’s score takes as its north star one of the hymns in the FCC Houston’s Hymnal and uses it to deconstruct and amplify the inner world of both the traveler and the church. Taken together, the story, the music, and the performance travel the distance of a person seeking sanctuary — and finding it at the church’s open door, where multiple cultures and beliefs are not just welcomed, but celebrated.

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