MAY 19, 2016 // 21
North Coast Chorale sings ‘The
Armed Man: A Mass for Peace’
Weekend concerts
include photo
collaboration with
LightBox gallery
ASTORIA — The North
Coast Chorale will present
two concerts featuring Karl
Jenkins’ “The Armed Man:
A Mass for Peace” this
weekend.
In collaboration with
LightBox Photographic
Gallery, the performances
will include projected photo
montages.
The concerts
The performances take
place at 7 p.m. Saturday,
May 21 and at 2 p.m. Sun-
day, May 22 at the Clatsop
Community College Per-
forming Arts Center, located
at 588 16th St. A reception
for photographer Friderike
Heuer will be held imme-
diately before the Sunday
program at 1 p.m.
Tickets are $15, and
children 12 and under are
free with an adult. Thanks
to a grant from the Clatsop
County Cultural Coalition,
the performance will be
accompanied by a chamber
orchestra.
The North Coast Cho-
rale is dedicating the
performances to victims
of terrorism, with thanks
to those who work to keep
peace. The concerts are also
in memory of Ann Goldeen,
who loved singing with the
chorale.
“The Armed Man” was
commissioned by the U.K.
Royal Armories Museum
and dedicated to the victims
of the Kosovo uprising. The
piece, irst performed in
2000, is one of Jenkins’ most
popular works; by March
2008 it had already seen 537
performances worldwide.
Between the musical ele-
ments of the mass are songs
that take the listener through
the successive stages of war:
from menace, preparation
and heroic ight to horror
and death to resignation
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movement takes listeners in
a marching tempo straight
into the army preparing for
battle. Prayers of the three
Abrahamic religions are
presented successively: a
Muslim “Call to Prayers,”
the Christian “Kyrie,” which
means “Lord have mercy,”
and the Judaic prayer “Save
Me from Bloody Men.”
The text of “The Armed
Man” includes excerpts
from religious and historical
sources, such as the Islamic
call to prayer and the Bible,
as well as excerpts from
secular writings by Rudyard
Kipling, Jonathan Swift,
John Dryden, Alfred Lord
Tennyson, and Sankichi
Toge, who survived the
Hiroshima bombing. Wood-
winds, brass instruments,
bells and percussion provide
the backdrop for the singers.
In addition to Jenkins’
piece, the chorale will
also perform “The Hour
Has Come” by Srul Irving
Glick, which speaks of love
toward all mankind. Born
in 1934 and having died
SUBMITTED PHOTO
“Benedictus,” a photographic montage by Frederike Heuer.
in 2002, Glick was one of
Canada’s most prominent
composers as well as being
a radio producer, conductor
and teacher. Glick’s music
continues to be performed
regularly at home, in the
U.S. and abroad. His inte-
gration of contemporary
music, Hebraic lyricism
and classical composition
techniques, formed into a
masterful character-illed
music that is both dramatic
and lyrical, won him consid-
erable acclaim.
A Collaboration
with LightBox
LightBox Photographic
Gallery fostered a collab-
oration between the North
Coast Chorale and photog-
rapher Frederike Heuer. To
accompany the performanc-
es of “The Armed Man,”
Heuer created 13 dynamic
pieces of art; the framed
photographic montages will
be exhibited in the lobby of
the PAC before and after the
weekend performances for
audiences to see up close.
The montages will also
be projected during the
movements of the musical
piece during the concert.
Much of Heuer’s work
has been centered on issues
of social justice, war and
displacement.
“I have often created
‘translations’ from text to
images,” Heuer said. “Pro-
viding images for a musical
piece that focuses on the
ravages of war and urges
us towards peace was the
perfect it.
“As (‘The Armed Man’)
unfolds, it brings the listen-
er closer and closer to the
devastation wrought by war,
the emotional emptiness and
trauma that comes with loss
and being a victim as much
as with being part of the per-
petrating forces. It ends with
appeals to hope, with a belief
that we can and must pursue
peace and that memory of the
suffering must be kept alive to
avoid repetition of warfare.”
Born in Germany, Heuer
immigrated to the U.S. in
1981. After a career as a
cognitive psychologist, she
has been concentrating on
photography and photomon-
tage work for the last decade.
“My montages are
computer-processed images
that overlay photographs all
taken by me in recent years
here and in Europe,” she
said. “I feel strongly that
art can and must shape our
minds as much as our souls,
and I hope that the combi-
nation of visual images and
beautiful music will contrib-
ute to our pursuit of peace.”
For more information
about Heuer, visit www.
friderikeheuer.com or follow
her on her blog at www.
heuermontage.com