Schubert and Mozart introduce Oratorio Chorale’s 39th season
Oratorio Chorale soloists include, from left, back row: John Zappe; Fred Chichocki; David Robbins; and John Todd. In the front row: Jenie Smith; Marian Dalton; Vivien Chinnapongse; and Ruby Shields-Morse.
Oratorio Chorale soloists include, from left, back row: John Zappe; Fred Chichocki; David Robbins; and John Todd. In the front row: Jenie Smith; Marian Dalton; Vivien Chinnapongse; and Ruby Shields-Morse.
The Oratorio Chorale opens its 39th season with the music of Schubert and Mozart, a program combining the physical color of sound with passionate expressionism. Featured are the Schubert “Mass #6 in E flat,” three motets by Mozart and “Eine kleine Nachtmusik.” The chorale will perform with the Maine Chamber Ensemble, under the baton of director Peter Frewen. Solo roles in the Schubert will be performed by members of the chorale.
Concerts will be held Saturday, Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m., at Orion Performing Arts Center, Topsham, and Sunday, Nov. 18, at 3 p.m., Sacred Heart Church, Yarmouth.
Franz Schubert’s “Mass in E flat” is one of a remarkable series created by the composer in his final years. In fact, the Mass wasn’t performed until a year after his death. In his musical notes Frewen points out that Schubert was extremely prolific at this time. In addition to the Mass, he also created an enormous symphony, a string quartet, three piano sonatas, and more.
The chorale will also perform three motets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The hymn “Sancta Maria and Misericordias Domini” were both composed when the youngMozart was at the court in Munich. Mozart, like Schubert, was quite productive during the final year of his life, 1791. Along with the “Requiem,” he composed the “Ave Verum Corpus,” the third motet on the Oratorio’s program. Frewen describes it as “the perfect miniature.” Rounding out the Mozart portion of the program will be “Eine kleine Nachtmusik,” composed in 1787.
Tickets for the Oratorio Chorale concerts are $20 in advance, $25 at the door, students at half price, and children under 12 free. Tickets are available from members of the Chorale, and at the following venues three weeks before the concert: Longfellow Books, Starbird Music in Portland; Book Review in Falmouth; Clayton’s inYarmouth; Sherman’s Books & Stationery in Freeport; Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick; Etc. Finery and Now You’re Cooking in Bath.
The concerts are sponsored by Bath Savings Institution with additional support from Androscoggin Bank and Penmor Lithographers.
For more information, call 798-7985 or visit www.oratoriochorale.org.
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