The Everett Chorale is really going to be rockin’ out this weekend.
“Are we ever,” chorale director Lee Mathews said.
The chorale’s concert “Hosannas and Hallelujah!” features a medley of hits from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Jesus Christ Superstar,” backed by electric guitar and bass, electric keyboard, and drums.
In past performances, the chorale has changed up their program a bit by adding some big band stylings, but rock ‘n’ roll? Not so much.
“We are rocking out and you kind of have to with ‘Superstar,’ ” Mathews said.
The small rock combo playing on “Superstar” is made up of musicians from Everett’s new Trinity Lutheran College in a first-time collaboration the school is undertaking with the chorale.
Twenty-eight members of the college’s concert choir will present four songs on the program. The chorale will also be joined by the college’s touring ensemble of four voices who do more contemporary Christian music.
“We like to mix it up a little bit,” Mathews said. “I think it will be an exciting collaboration and an inter-generational collaboration of making music together.”
The musicians from Trinity Lutheran will do a short group of songs during the first half of the concert, then will join the chorale in the second half for the “Superstar” medley, which will include hits such as “Hosanna,” “I Don’t Know How to Love Him,” and the title track “Jesus Christ Superstar.”
Also on the program is part two of Handel’s “Messiah,” which ends with the “Hallelujah Chorus.” The chorale will get backup on this number from an 18-piece chamber orchestra made up of mostly Cascade Symphony musicians.
Theresa Goffredo: 425-339-3424, goffredo@heraldnet.com.
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