The Camas High School choir has teamed up with indie-rock composer Kelly Pratt and Young Audiences of Oregon and Southwest Washington, an arts education nonprofit, to create an hour-long performance that breaks away from the traditional choir concert by including rock band Bright Moments to accompany the voices of the 200 Camas High School students.
The doors to the concert open at 6:30 p.m., Friday, April 13, at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), 15 N.E. Hancock St., Portland. The tickets will cost $10 in advance and $12 at the door.
Pratt, a multi-instrumentalist composer and arranger in Portland, who has worked with bands such as Arcade Fire, Coldplay and Passion Pit, wrote the music for the concert.
Ethan Chessin, Camas High choir teacher, said the concert takes on a theme of human progress and the idea that the more things change the more they stay the same.
“The show looks at all of human history and examines the progress that’s been made, good and bad, and highlights the crucial juncture society is at and the variety of possibilities for the future,” Chessin said. “It also shows that the students who are singing on stage are going to lead us in that venture and the show wraps leaving the audience with a sense of hope and joy.”