May 10 Friday
Join the Renaissance Voices a capella choir as they perform soulful love songs from across the centuries: John Dowland to Elgar to Paul McCartney to hits from the Great American Songbook! Bring your beloved for a musical and swoon-inducing evening of live music.
May 11 Saturday
The Maine Music Society Chorale will showcase a variety of musical genres from 1972, the year the Chorale was born, on Saturday May 11 at 7 pm and on Sunday May 12 at 2 pm at the Franco Center in Lewiston. Under the direction of our Artistic Director, Dr. Richard Nickerson, the 70+ member chorale will regale you with time honored favorites such as “Listen to the Music” and medleys from Broadway shows like “Jesus Christ Superstar” to name just a couple. The singers will also lead you in an exploration of some of the unusual and exciting musical styles and pop rhythms of the era that are sure to leave you surprised and breathless. Join us as we take you back fifty years to a time that evoked an age of free spirit and creative musical expression. You definitely will want to be present as we celebrate our Golden Jubilee – 50 Years of Song!
Tickets are available online at www.mainemusicsociety.org or by calling our business office at 207-333-3386. Tickets may also be purchased at the door.MMS encourages you to purchase your tickets early.
Tickets: Adult - $27*; Senior - $25*; Student - $15* Children under 12: free when accompanied by an adult. Group rates available for 10 or more tickets to the same performance purchased at the same time. Call our business office: 207-333-3386. * Price includes all handling fees
The Maine Music Society thanks its season underwriters Hardy, Wolf & Downing and the Sun Journal, Foundation sponsor The Ladd Foundation, and the Event Sponsor Rowe Auburn for making this concert possibleThe Maine Music Society Chorale is an auditioned, mixed-voice community chorus based in Lewiston-Auburn. Led by Maine Music Society Artistic Director Dr. Richard Nickerson, the 75+ voice chorale has distinguished itself with an ever-evolving level of excellence and professionalism. Founded as the Androscoggin Chorale in 1972, the group’s diverse repertoire reflects its desire to advance the cultural heritage of Central Maine, to explore a broad range of musical genres — contemporary, musical theatre, classical, opera, oratorio — and to provide its members with opportunities to experience their love of singing.
New Renaissance Singers invites you to their Spring Choral Concert, “A River of Song” on Saturday, May 11th at 7pm at the UUSB on Park St. Bangor. NRS will present an eclectic mix of music from Weelkes, Mozart, Holst, Bruckner, and Burleigh, to music composed within the past few years. Contemporary highlights include As the Ship Went Down (Woodpigeon), Set Me As a Seal (Clausen), a beautiful arrangement of Like A River in My Soul, and Fly, a work composed by Arian Norman.
The group is pleased to welcome the Orono High School Concert Choir as their featured guests. OHS will present several pieces of their own, along with joining NRS for a few songs.
Renaissance Voices will perform at the Brunswick Unitarian Universalist Church on Saturday, May 11 at 7:30 pm as part of the Concerts for a Cause series. All proceeds will be donated to Oasis Free Clinics and Midcoast New Mainers Group.
Renaissance Voices is a Portland-based a cappella chorus singing music from the Middle Ages to the present day. The theme of this spring concert will be “Love Songs, Old and New.” The group will be doing works by John Dowland, Thomas Morely, Edward Elgar, Selections from the Great American Songbook and more.
Renaissance Voices was founded in 1995 by a group of Maine singers on tour in London. The original idea for an auditioned, Portland-based, a cappella ensemble still guides their choices today. Although their emphasis is the a cappella performance of early European music, in recent years they have broadened their repertoire to include other origins, including many works by women composers. Concerts also feature short readings that complement the themes of the musical selections. Renaissance Voices is comprised of both professional and experienced amateur musicians and enjoys an ever-widening fan base throughout Maine.
Harold Stover has been their conductor since 2001. He is a Julliard graduate, a distinguished composer, organist/choirmaster of many prestigious choirs in New York City, and he has played critically acclaimed organ recitals all over the U.S. and Europe. He also served on the faculty of the New York School of Liturgical Music, and at the Portland Conservatory of Music,
“Bravo, bravo! When music-making is so technically mastered, the beauty offered is Grace; one is not sure where or when she is going to be had. I was had many times.” —Audience feedback, Portland Press Herald
May 12 Sunday
May 27 Monday
Down East Singers and Mozart Mentors Orchestra, under the direction of Anthony Antolini, present Josef Haydn's Mass in a Time of Anxiety, also known as the Lord Nelson Mass or Mass in D minor in their annual Memorial Day concert. Soloists: Erin Chenard, soprano; Jazmin DeRice, contralto; David Myers-Wakeman, tenor; John David Adams, bass. The concert will begin with Cecil Effinger's arrangement of "American Hymn", also known as "O Beautiful for Spacious Skies," for chorus, orchestra and audience sing-along. A light reception follows the performance.
Jul 13 Saturday
Voices rising by the sea!
Join treble voices from around New England and beyond for a unique week long summer choral experience on the shores of beautiful Saco, ME. Singers of all levels are welcome! Sun, surf, singing and friendship.. there's nothing better!
Choir directors, experienced choral singers, and "shower singers" all sit side-by-side to make music in an easygoing and encouraging environment. Whatever your choral background, you will leave relaxed, rejuvenated, and inspired. If you love to sing and love the company of supportive music friends, come join us by the ocean!
We sing every day at ChoralFest, rehearsing each morning and afternoon. There's plenty of time to participate in other activities as well.. enjoy time at the beach, engage in friendship circle, a ukulele jam, sing alongs, perform in the evening talent show, enjoy the beauty of nature from rocking chairs on porches, go shopping, watch the sunrise at the beach, enjoy chapel and so much more!
Jul 14 Sunday
Jul 15 Monday
Jul 16 Tuesday