NEWCASTLE – “That poetry and music are sister arts is a venerable truism.” It is in celebrating this connection that Peter Frewen has chosen a diverse and tantalizing program of choral music for Oratorio Chorale’s winter concert “A Collage of Chorale Works.”

The concert will be presented at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 25, at the Second Congregational Church in Newcastle; at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 3, at the United Church of Christ in Bath; and at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 4, at Sacred Heart Church in Yarmouth.

Pianist Bridget Convey will accompany the Chorale as it present excerpts from Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and “A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream,” given new life through the musical artistry of Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Brahms creates a different mood with each of his “Four Songs,” responding to the work of four poets’ verses expressing peace, grief, a lullaby, and aspiration.

Describing the connection between music and poetry, Frewen said, “Rhythm, sound and feeling are their ancient ancestors, from which diverged language and imagery on one branch; melody and harmony on another.”

Dominick Argento perfects this union, using music both spritely and sonorous to enhance John Keats’ humorous yet often thoughtful verse written while he, as a young man, was on a walking tour of the British Isles.

Bowdoin College Assistant Professor of Music Vineet Shende offers his “edgy, unsettled rhythms” to sacred liturgy in his “Gloria.”

Rounding out the program of classics in the making, Convey offers “Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979,” by George Crumb, a work she says she loves because “he creates such beautiful and interesting sound worlds by exploring the piano in unconventional ways.”

Tickets are $15 in advance; $20 at the door; students half-price; under 12, free. Tickets are available at Starbird Music and Longfellow Books in Portland; at Books Etc. in Falmouth; at Clayton’s in Yarmouth; at Gulf of Maine Bookstore in Brunswick; at Mason Street Mercantile and Magnolia’s in Bath; at Treats in Wiscasset; and at The Maine Coast Book Shop in Damariscotta. Tickets are also available from any Oratorio Chorale member.