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& Out about weekend coast May 7, 2015 arts & entertainment 4 9 12 14 COASTAL LIFE A weekend of choir concerts A class for the ages Willapa National Wildlife Refuge teaches about the environment THE ARTS Art in the garden Becky Graham will speak about designing unique gardens FEATURE Indigenous artists CCC brings six Maori clay artists to Astoria for cultural exchange DINING Mouth of the Columbia Try a traditional deli sandwich at Tsunami Sandwich Company STEPPING OUT....... .............................................................. .5, 6, 7 CROSSWORD.......... .....................................................................17 CW MARKETPLACE........ ....................................................... 18, 19 GRAB BAG ....... ..........................................................................23 Find it all online and more! COASTWEEKEND.COM www.coastweekend.com features full calendar listings, keyword searches and easy sharing on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. coastweekend.com | facebook.com/coastweekend | twitter.com/coastweekend on the cover “Seven Days,” a 2012 piece by Baye Riddell, one of the Maori artists who will visit Astoria for a 10-day cul- tural exchange through Clatsop Community College. Submitted photo COAST WEEKEND PHOTOS: JOSHUA BESSEX ADVERTISING MANAGER: BETTY SMITH CONTRIBUTORS: DWIGHT CASWELL MARILYN GILBAUGH DAVID CAMPICHE RYAN HUME To advertise in Coast Weekend, call 503-325-3211 or contact your local sales representative. © 2015 COAST WEEKEND After 17 weeks of 1920s that now serves as a rehearsal spent learning and polishing new songs, the Cannon Beach Chorus performed its spring concerts this past weekend. community center. It boasts a pool, a gym, a youth center, an arts gallery and an audi- torium. The arts gallery was hosting CARTM’s 17th annu- I sing alto in the chorus, and it al Trash Art Show, featuring ZDVP\¿UVWVSULQJFRQFHUWZLWK art made of recycled and re- the group. Inspiration to join purposed materials. I’d never struck about a year ago, when seen the art show before, so it I saw the lively choir perform was fun to check out the wall during its 25th anniversary. art, sculptures and paintings I was an avid choral singer during intermission. in high school, and it’s been a The NCRD and the River- treat to immerse myself in that bend Players theater group are culture again: the shared cho- starting to renovate the 300- ral language of Italian dynam- ic notations; the melody and harmonies working together; WKH FOXPV\ ¿UVW UHDGWKURXJK gradually transforming into a tight and satisfying perfor- mance. It’s been pretty fun. For the concerts, we per- formed Friday at the Cannon Beach Community Church and Saturday at the North County Recreation District in Nehalem. The church also serves as our rehearsal venue, DQGDFURZG¿OOHGWKHSHZVWR hear the performance. Saturday also saw a good turnout at the NCRD, which was a new venue for the cho- rus — and for me. The NCRD is a former school built in the Rebecca Sedlak COAST WEEKEND EDITOR rsedlak@dailyastorian.com Thine Eyes” from his oratorio “Elijah” is one of my favorite women’s choral pieces. Sung in soprano, mezzo-soprano and alto, the song isn’t over- ly long, but the harmonies are tight and each part is interest- ing and pleasantly lilting. Coast Weekend welcomes comments and contributions from readers. New items for publication consideration must be submit- ted by 10 a.m. Tuesday, one week and two days before publication. To submit an item, contact Rebecca Sedlak See story on Page 12 COAST WEEKEND EDITOR: REBECCA SEDLAK NOTES FROM THE EDITOR seat theater, and our perfor- PDQFHZDVDEHQH¿WFRQFHUWWR replace the old wooden chairs. Our program consisted of “choral gems,” that is, com- pelling, beautiful choral songs that have been celebrated and enjoyed by many people for many years. The program moved for- ward in a loose chronological way, starting with Bach and Handel, moving to Haydn, Mo- zart and Beethoven, then on to Brahms, and into the 20th cen- tury with Gabriel Fauré, Ran- dall Thompson and some Shak- er hymns and a gospel tune. I had sung two of the cho- ral gems before when I was in high school. Bach’s “Alle- luia,” from Motet VI, “Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden,” is complicated and fast, and the trick is to keep it light and buoyant. Mendelssohn’s “Lift Phone: 503.325.3211 Ext. 217 or 800.781.3211 Fax: 503.325.6573 E-mail: rsedlak@dailyastorian.com Address: P.O.Box 210 • 949 Exchange St. Astoria, OR 97103 Coast Weekend is published every Thursday by the EO Media Group, all rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced with- out consent of the publisher. Coast Weekend appears weekly in The Daily Astorian and the Chinook Observer. May 7, 2015 | coastweekend.com | 3