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FREEPORT — The Greater Freeport Community Chorus will present its spring concert, “Love’s Great Ocean,” May 6 and 7 in Brunswick and Cumberland. The 55 singers, residents of more than 15 midcoast towns, are led by director Virgil Bozeman and accompanied by pianist Kellie Moody. They will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 6, at the Universalist Unitarian Church of Brunswick, 1 Middle St, and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 7, at the Tuttle Road United Methodist Church, 52 Tuttle Road, Cumberland.
The centerpiece of the concert will be “Heavenly Hurt: Songs of Love and Loss,” a seven-movement setting of several Emily Dickinson poems composed by Alice Parker for choir, piano and cello, according to a news release.
“On the Beach at Night Alone” is a setting by Stephen Chatman of the work of another American poet, Walt Whitman. The piece, celebrating the connectedness of humanity, nature and the universe, was commissioned by the Acadia Choral Society of Bar Harbor.
Two pieces take their text from the Old Testament “Song of Solomon.” They are James McCray’s “Rise Up, My Love, My Fair One” and Joshua Jacobson’s arrangement of the Israeli “Dodi Li.” And in composer Eric Whitacre’s setting of poet Rudyard Kipling’s “The Seal Lullaby,” a mother seal sings her pup to sleep “in the arms of the slow-swinging seas.”
Admission is $10, with a per-family maximum of $25. Tickets may be bought at the door. For more information, visit the chorus on Facebook or at its website, www.gfccsings.org.
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Director Virgil Bozeman will lead the Greater Freeport Community Chorus in its spring concert, “Love’s Great Ocean,” May 6 and 7 in Brunswick and Cumberland. (Contributed photo)
