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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
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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
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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;
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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,
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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.
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NOTES FROM THE EDITOR
seat theater, and our perfor-
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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
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