A night of classical music at its finest, performed the way it was intended to be heard, in the acoustically grand and visually stunning St. John’s Cathedral. In recognition of ASO’s birth year (1984), this concert includes works written in the 80s by Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt, and Wojciech Kilar, paired with Mozart’s timeless masterpiece, The Coronation Mass, or Krönungsmesse as it is called in German. 

Program

Phillip Glass
Companion (1984)
Arvo Pärt
Fratres for strings (1989)
arr. Andrew Lipke “1980’s Fantasy”
(string arrangement of four famous pop/rock songs from the 1980’s)
Wojciech Kilar
Orawa (1986)
W.A. Mozart
Coronation Mass in C-Major, K.317
Kyrie – Gloria – Credo – Sanctus –
Benedictus – Agnus Dei

WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THIS CONCERT

  • W. Kilar is one of the most famous Polish composers of the 20th century. He spent his entire adult life in Katowice, the same city where our Maestro grew up. They collaborated on American premiere of Kilar’s Misa Pro Pace dedicated to pope John Paul II and premiered at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York in 2005 shortly after the pope’s passing.
  • A. Part is the most famous Estonian composer. He specializes in choral music. Fratres is one of his very few instrumental works. The composition quickly gained great international fame shortly after it was premiered. Subsequently the composer was asked to make multiple new arrangements for a wide variety of different instrumental ensembles.
  • Orawa is a name of a small region in southern Poland. The main theme on which the entire composition is based, comes from its traditional folk music.