3:00 pm, Sunday, May 26, 2024 St. Mary's Assumption Catholic Church
• Mozart Missa Brevis in C Major, K. 220 "Spatzen Messe"
• Puccini Messa di Gloria
Is it possible that Mozart could meet Puccini? Highly unlikely, since they lived almost one hundred years apart. However, Symphony Chorus of New Orleans IS making this meeting possible! The year 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of Giacomo Puccini’s death. Symphony Chorus is proud to join the global celebration of Puccini with this production of the rarely performed Messa di Gloria - the prolific opera composer’s only major liturgical choral composition. Also featured in this concert is Mozart’s Missa Brevis in C, the “Sparrow Mass”. Both works on the program were composed when the composers were around 20 years old!
3:00 pm, Sunday, May 26, 2024 St. Mary's Assumption Catholic Church
• Mozart Missa Brevis in C Major, K. 220 "Spatzen Messe"
• Puccini Messa di Gloria
Is it possible that Mozart could meet Puccini? Highly unlikely, since they lived almost one hundred years apart. However, Symphony Chorus of New Orleans IS making this meeting possible! The year 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of Giacomo Puccini’s death. Symphony Chorus is proud to join the global celebration of Puccini with this production of the rarely performed Messa di Gloria - the prolific opera composer’s only major liturgical choral composition. Also featured in this concert is Mozart’s Missa Brevis in C, the “Sparrow Mass”. Both works on the program were composed when the composers were around 20 years old!
The night, though, truly belonged to the chorus. The brassy, driving ensembles are what make this work one of the most popular of the 20th century. The 100-plus voices of the choir, under the direction of Steven Edwards, sang with strength, precision and brightness, whether in the gentle pastoral airs or the powerful crescendos that burst from the stage.
- Review of Carmina Burana by Theodor P. Mahne, The Times Picayune.
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