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Provincetown :: Friday, November 21st 2008
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Jon Arterton.
My Life in Song
Jon Arterton Performs on July 22
By Kahrin Deines
July 13th, 2008
Everyone has songs they can’t hear without thinking of a particular moment in their life. And perhaps singers more than most are a tune to these auditory connections with the past, wed as they are to the world of song.
| “My Life in Song” follows Arterton’s full-circle trajectory from his first cathedral songs to his current life in Provincetown, where he serves as the director of music for the U.U. Meeting House. |
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One Provincetown singer, Jon Arterton, will soon be giving a demonstration of how a singer’s life can be traced through song, when he performs “My Life in Song” as part of the Pilgrim Monument’s Centennial Summer Music Series on July 22.
Arterton has been singing since his early days as a choirboy at Washington’s National Cathedral, where his father was a minister.
From there he went on to earn masters degrees in both choral conducting and acting, eventually making his way to New York City, where he performed in hundreds of plays and musicals. He also became the founder and vocal arranger for “The Flirtations,” a popular gay a cappella group.
Today he lives in Provincetown and is the conductor of the Outer Cape Chorale, a 100-member non-auditioning community chorus that performs free concerts throughout the year. He is also the founder of the Outer Cape Chorale Chamber Singers.
“My Life in Song” follows Arterton’s full-circle trajectory from his first cathedral songs to his current life in Provincetown, where he serves as the director of music for the U.U. Meeting House.
Running from classical selections to political pieces and favorites from musical theater, the performance showcases the wide range of experiences that have led Arterton to his life today.
Audiences may remember Arterton from the recent summer musical “Just Married!,” in which he and his husband, James Mack, sang about their marriage and love in an intimate series of duets and solo works.
At the end of Arterton’s “My Life in Song” performance, the couple will again take the stage together for one song. John W. Thomas, the pianist and composer who organized the new musical series, will also accompany Arterton for the performance.
Jon Arterton will perform “My Life is Song” at 7 p.m. on July 22 in the East Gallery of the Provincetown Museum. Tickets are $12 and will be available at the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum beforehand.
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