The Oratorio Chorale will present Antonin Dvorak’s Mass in D, Ivor Davies’ Prayers from the Ark, Benjamin Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, and Randall Thompson’s Alleluia, in a program titled “Rejoice.” 

Performances will be held on Saturday, March 9 at 7:30 p.m. at the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Brunswick, and Sunday, March 10 at 3 p.m. at the Falmouth Congregational Church, Falmouth. Soloists for this program are members of the Chorale. 

The Oratorio Chorale will be accompanied by Ray Cornils, Municipal Organist for the City of Portland since 1990. Cornils serves as Minister of Music at the First Parish Church, UCC in Brunswick where he has built an extensive music program of five vocal and two handbell choirs. He is a member of the music faculties of the University of Southern Maine, Bowdoin College and the Portland Conservatory of Music, where he teaches organ, harpsichord and related classes.

Concert tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door, half price for students, and free for children under 12. Tickets may be purchased from members of the Chorale, at Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick; Now You’re Cooking and Lisa Marie’s Made in Maine in Bath; Book Review in Falmouth; Sherman’s Books and Stationery in Freeport; and Starbird Music and Longfellow Books in Portland. 

For ticket information, call 207-798-7985. For the rest of the Oratorio Chorale’s 2013-2014 season, visit www.oratoriochorale.org/.