The Seacoast’s vocal chamber chorus, Amare Cantare, will perform their spring concert, “Light,” on Saturday, April 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Stratham, NH; Sunday, April 7 at 3:00 p.m. in Durham, NH; and on Wednesday, April 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Portsmouth, NH.

The centerpiece of the concert is Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen (Why Is Light Given to the Weary) by Johannes Brahms, his most extensive and compelling work for unaccompanied chorus. The program also includes Ysaye Barnwell’s Prayer from Safehouse: Still Looking; Joan Szymko’s setting of The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry; and works by Samuel Scheidt, William Byrd, Hugo Distler, Stephen Chatman, Carson Cooman, and Lea Morris.

"We are having such fun learning music in a huge range of styles for this concert," said Catherine Beller-McKenna, Music Director. “The theme of light appears both metaphorically, as in Brahms, and literally, as a sunset, a morning, and in the words of Wendell Berry, ‘the day blind stars waiting with their light’.”

The concert will be performed on Saturday, April 6, 7:30 p.m. at Stratham Community Church, 6 Emery Lane, Stratham, NH; Sunday, April 7, 3:00 p.m. at Oyster River Middle School, 1 Coe Drive, Durham, NH; and Wednesday, April 10, 7:30 p.m. at Middle Street Baptist Church, 18 Court Street, Portsmouth, NH.

All tickets are $18 and may be purchased at amarecantare.org. Tickets will also be available at the door.

Since 1977, Amare Cantare’s auditioned members from across the Seacoast have performed masterworks and choral music from six centuries. They have also produced several digital albums of their performances. For more information, visit amarecantare.org.