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Outer Cape Chorale Chamber Singers
A Passport to the Arts Event
Provincetown, MA, October 5, 2005 - The Great Music on Sundays at Five Concert Series presents The Outer Cape Chorale Chamber Singers, Jon Arterton, conductor
Sunday, October 16@5 PM @The U. U. Meeting House,236 Commercial Street, Provincetown
THE OUTER CAPE CHORALE CHAMBER SINGERS were founded in February 2002 by its conductor Jon Arterton. A small ensemble of The Outer Cape Chorale, The Chamber Singers are about twenty of the more experienced members of the larger chorus. They perform year-round and have performed many times in Provincetown's Town Hall and all over the Outer Cape. They have twice opened for The Cape Symphony Orchestra at their annual Pops Concert in Orleans, and they’ve supported many causes with their singing. They sing a wide variety of music - from classical to popular music.
The Program:
Four songs by Ysaye Barnwell of Sweet Honey in the Rock: Breaths, On Children, No Mirrors in My Nana’s House, Wanting Memories Spirituals: Ride the Chariot, Deep River, Soon I will be done, Walk a Mile
Two Rachmaninoff Vespers
Rise Up My Love by Healy Willan
Embraceable You - Gershwin
Somewhere - Bernstein (West Side Story)
Two songs written in Provincetown around 1920: Trip to Provincetown, Red Sails in the Sunset
O Beatissima – Howard Helvey
Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal (early American hymn tune)
4 short rounds by William Schuman
They are: Mary Abt, Elizabeth Bridgewater, Jorge Castelljo, Eric Dray, Florence Green, Griff Griffith, Marty Hassell, Donna Heitzman, Raymond Johnson, Brian Klinger, Dianne Kopser, Molly Lofgren, James Mack, John Marshall, Ian McMillan, Sue Peters, Paul Roberts, Sara Robinson, Diane Brown Rose, Jason Stover, Suzanne Grout Thomas, Sewall Whittemore
The UU Meeting House, built in 1847 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, has one of the finest acoustic concert halls on the Cape. The sanctuary's historic and rare trompe l'oeil walls and serene atmosphere provide the perfect setting for great music. Admission is $15 payable at the door or in advance at PtownTix.com (508.487.9793). Children ages 12 and under are admitted free. The series is a participant in the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod’s Passport to the Arts program and is sponsored in part by the Provincetown Tourism Fund.
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