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FEATURING GUEST CONDUCTOR, DAVID SHALER
Join us for a night of classical music at its finest, performed the way it was intended to be heard, within the acoustically grand and visually stunning walls of St. John’s Cathedral.
Led by guest conductor, David Shaler, Director of Music at Broadmoor United Methodist Church in Baton Rouge, the Symphony will be joined by guest vocalists Sara Cage, Beth Campbell, Bob McDonner, and Ransom Woodson to deliver a powerful program of works by G. Holst and G.F. Handel, culminating with W.A. Mozart’s timeless masterpiece, The Coronation Mass.
Program
G. Holst
St. Paul's Suite
G.F. Handel
Selections from Water Music
3. Allegro
4. Andante
5. Presto
6. Air
8. Bourrée
9. Hornpipe
10. Allegro Moderato
12. Hornpipe
W.A. Mozart
Coronation Mass in C-Major, K.317
WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THIS CONCERT
Mozart completed the mass in C major on March 23, 1779, and it premiered at Salzburg Cathedral in Austria, on Easter Sunday of that year. However, the first documented performance of it as a coronation song was at the coronation of Francis II, as Holy Roman Emperor in 1792. The mass appears to have acquired the nickname Krönungsmesse (Coronation Mass) many years later, at the Imperial Court in Vienna, in the early nineteenth century, after becoming the preferred music for royal and imperial coronations.
