Music for Mission: Teen Vocalists Raise Mission Trip Funds

    Local teen vocalists will sing for a mission at 7 p.m. June 22 at Sacred Heart Church in Dearborn, located at Michigan and Military, raising funds for the church youth group’s mission trip July 6 to 12 to Oil City, Pennsylvania.

            A free will offering after the recital will benefit the mission trip, followed by a reception in the parish hall.

            Maddie Kaplan, who is a Sacred Heart parishioner, and fellow Divine Child High School classmate Alek Papanastasopoulos will sing a repertoire ranging from classical pieces to Broadway show tunes.

            Peter Moore and Molly Boudreau will offer vocal selections as well.

            Kaplan will open the concert with Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein’s “Somewhere,” from “West Side Story,” followed by Papanastasopoulos singing Alan Menkin and Tim Rice’s “If I Can’t Love Her” from “Beauty and the Beast – the Broadway Musical.” 

            The pair will then sing two duets, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “All I Ask of You” and “Think of Me” from “The Phantom of the Opera.”

            Papanastasopoulos will take a classical turn with Francesco Cavalli’s “Delizie Contente” followed by Kaplan’s presentation of Allessandro Scarlatti’s “Le Violette.”

            Peter Moore will sing Sondheim’s “Giants in the Sky” from “Into the Woods,” followed by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher’s “Rainbow Connection” from “The Muppet Movie” with Molly Boudreau.

            Boudreau will then sing Marvin Hamlish and Edward Kleban’s “What I did for Love” from “A Chorus Line.”

            Kaplan will follow with Carl Strommen’s folk song, “To the Sky,” followed by Papanastasopoulos singing “Anthem” from “Chess,” which features music and words by Benny Anderson and Björn Ulvaeus and lyrics by Tim Rice.

            Kaplan follows with “Over the Rainbow,” the Academy Award-winning ballad from “The Wizard of Oz,” with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E. Y. Harburg.

            Kaplan and Papanastasopoulos will close the recital with the duet, “The Prayer” (from the film “Quest for Camelot”) by Doug LaBrecque, David Foster and Carole Bayer-Sager.

            Brian Sampson and Richard Moore will provide the accompaniment.