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Round Out your Concert Experience
- Free Pre-Concert Discussion with Dr. James Armstrong at 3:00pm in the Sanctuary. Dr. Armstrong is Director of Choirs and Associate Professor of Music at the College of William & Mary and his research interests range from eighteenth-century Viennese sacred music to historically-informed performance.
- Puchase Tickets
Sunday, March 6, 2011, 4:00pm
Williamsburg United Methodist Church
500 Jamestown Road, Williamsburg
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Williamsburg United Methodist Church
500 Jamestown Road, Williamsburg
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- Laura Choi Stuart, soprano
- Phaedra McNorton, mezzo-soprano
- Kenneth Wood, Tenor
- Branch Fields, bass
- 26-piece Chamber Orchestra
Written while he was in the service of Archbishop Colloredo of Salzburg, Mozart's last Salzburg liturgical work, Vesperae solennes de confessore (Vespers of the Confessor), is a masterpiece and a foreshadowing of the two great unfinished religious works of his Vienna period, the Mass in C minor and the Requiem.
The Lord Nelson Mass, Haydn's largest mass and one of his most well-known and beloved choral works, was written between 1796 and 1802 for Princess Esterhazy, the wife of Haydn's employer. Haydn's own title for this mass, Missa in Angustiis ('mass for times of distress'), belies the joy and feelings of hope expressed in the work.
