A Season of Celebration
2009-2010 Season
Celebrate Haydn
Te Deum and Lord Nelson Mass by Joseph Haydn
Saturday, November 14, 2009, 7:30pm
Grace Presbyterian Church
10221 Ella Lee Lane, Houston
Hannah Celeste Lu, soprano
Sarah Larsen, mezzo-soprano
Isaac Broadway, tenor
Brendan Emig, baritone
Dr. Allen Hightower, conductor
Celebrate Mendelssohn
Psalm settings by Felix Mendelssohn,
Mass Movements by J.S. Bach
Saturday March 6, 2010, 7:30pm
St. John the Divine Episcopal Church
2450 River Oaks Boulevard, Houston
Melissa Givens, soprano
2009 Young Artist Competition Winners will also be featured
Dr. John Yarrington, guest conductor
Celebrate Brahms
Requiem by Johannes Brahms
Saturday, May 15, 2010, 7:30pm
Dunham Theater
Morris Cultural Arts Center at Houston Baptist University
7502 Fondren Road, Houston
Kristin Hightower, soprano
Brady Knapp, baritone
with Tallowood Baptist Church Adult Choir
Dr. Allen Hightower, Conductor
Join Houston Masterworks Chorus for its 24th season of performing brilliant choral masterworks for Houston audiences! This season we put the spotlight on the music of three beloved composers in A Season of Celebration.
In November, the season opens with the exhilarating music of Classical master Franz Josef Haydn. Our concert begins with the Te Deum in C, dedicated to Empress Marie Therese of Austria. The evening culminates with the most beloved of all Haydn's masses, the Lord Nelson Mass, dedicated to the great English admiral, Horatio Nelson. These works are sung in honor of the 200th anniversary of this beloved composer’s death.
In March, the music of Romantic master Felix Mendelssohn will surely delight Houston choral enthusiasts. In celebration of his 200th birthday, we pair Mendelssohn’s Psalm settings with a selection of mass movements by Johann Sebastian Bach, the Baroque master who highly influenced Mendelssohn. We are thrilled to be joined by guest conductor, Dr. John Yarrington, Director of the School of Music at Houston Baptist University.
In May, A Season of Celebration draws to an exciting and climactic end with the immortal Requiem by Johannes Brahms. Perhaps the most deeply human of all requiem settings, the listener is confronted with the most profound questions of life and death and the promise of eternity. The Tallowood Baptist Church Adult Choir will join Houston Masterworks Chorus and Orchestra for what promises to be memorable evening.
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