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Provincetown :: Saturday, July 5th 2008
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The Chorale always draws a crowd. Photo by Jane Rosett.
The Chorale's Spring Concert
At the UU Meeting House on May 16 and 17
By Kahrin Deines
May 4th, 2008
If a bunch of people find themselves in a remote location together, they might just . . . start singing!
| The next Outer Cape Chorale concerts will take place on May 16 and 17 at the UU Meeting House at 7 p.m. |
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It’s certainly counter to what the plot lines of “The Lord of the Flies,” or more currently, “Lost,” suggest might happen. But then, the Outer Cape has always turned isolation into an opportunity to pursue an independent path.
In this spirit of independence, the Outer Cape Chorale was created with the mission to communicate joy through song in 2002 and it has been performing free concerts for audience’s at land’s end ever since.
|  Jon Arterton, the Chorale's conductor and founder. |
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The next Outer Cape Chorale concerts will take place on May 16 and 17 at the UU Meeting House at 7 p.m. For these spring celebrations, the Chorale will perform Gabriel Fauré’s “Requiem” and Franz Schubert’s “Mass in G.”
“Requiem,” which is based on the structure of the Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead, is Fauré’s meditation on death as a happy deliverance. It took him three years to compose the work.
Meanwhile, Schubert completed “Mass in G,” one of his most well known works, at the early age of eighteen, and in less than a week.
Besides their commitment to performing free concerts, the Chorale is also unique in terms of composition, because it has an inclusive membership policy and does not require choral members to audition.
Thanks to this openness, the Choral has grown rapidly since its formation, from a small original group of under twenty members to a powerful 120-voice chorus today.
The group’s conductor and founder, Jon Arterton, was a member of the late a cappella group “The Flirtations.” He is also a vocal soloist whom audiences may remember from the musical “Just Married.” In addition, Arterton is the director of music for the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House in Provincetown. Under his direction, the Chorale has performed a variety of works, including Brahms’ “Liebeslieder Waltzes,” a concert version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Iolanthe,” a program of American music entitled “Mostly Gershwin,” and, most impressively, Mozart’s especially difficult “Vesperae Solennesde Confessore.”
The Chorale will perform at the UU Meeting House, which is located at 236 Commercial Street, on May 16 and 17 at 7 p.m. The Chorale will also perform on May 18 at Orleans’ Nauset Regional Middle School at 3 p.m. The concerts are free, but donations are always appreciated.
To learn more about the Outer Cape Chorale, visit www.outercapechorale.org.
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