CHIMACUM — RainShadow Chorale will welcome a special guest composer to its fall program, “The Secret of the Sea.”
The work’s composer, Jake Runestad, is “an award-winning and frequently-performed creator of stirring and uplifting works,” according to Rebecca Rottsolk, artistic director and conductor.
The concert will be performed at 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer at 45 Redeemer Way in Chimacum.
The suggested donation is $20 per adult and $10 per student.
Tickets are available at Brown Paper Tickets (www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4422952) and at Crossroads Music, 2100 Lawrence St., in Port Townsend as well as at the door.
Rottsolk said she has been drawn to Runestad’s choral music for several years “because of his deep attention to text and how his music flows so freely from it in a strong, clear and meaningful way.”
She said in a press release that she has “connected many times with Jake over the past several years” and RainShadow Chorale has sung a number of his works.
“So it was easy for me to contact him and invite him to come to Port Townsend to work with us and conduct two of his pieces in our concert,” Rottsolk said.
“Jake finds great meaning in the earth, in human relationships, in art,” she continued. “He is keen to the energies and connections among things, people, trees, water. It comes through in the texts he chooses and in how he connects to the world around us through his compositions.”
She chose music to fulfill the theme with such songs as “Down to the Sea” (Gwyneth Walker), “Mother Whale Lullaby” (Paul Winter), “Skye Boat Song” (arranged by Stephen Smith), “Seal Lullaby” (Eric Whitacre) and “The Sounding Sea” (Eric Barnum).
The project is sponsored in part by a grant from the Port Townsend Arts Commission, as well as many other donors, Rottsolk said.
For more information, see rainshadowchorale.org.
