Sunday Nov 18, 2018
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PST
Sunday, November 18
3:00 PM
St. Edward Catholic Church
601 W C St
Shelton, WA 98584
$20 REGULAR | $16 SENIOR/MILITARY
Presented by the Great Bend Center for Music.
The almost childlike cheerfulness of Haydn’s music and its fusion of exuberance, originality, classical elegance and intellectual power placed Haydn far and away above the level of all except Mozart amongst his contemporaries. Hailed as a genius throughout Europe, admired and revered by the public and by his peers. Mozart said, ‘Haydn alone has the secret both of making me smile and of touching my innermost soul’. Even Napoleon, on capturing Vienna, immediately ordered a guard of honour to be placed round Haydn’s house. The Creation represents a considerable development over its Handelian predecessors, and Haydn’s bold use of orchestral color, adventurous harmony, rhythmic and melodic inventiveness, and the work’s strong unity bring the subject to life with an almost operatic vividness and power.
Featuring soprano Tess Altiveros, tenor Will Gardner, and bass Charles Robert Stephens with the combined forces of the Great Bend Chorale and Youth Chorale under the direction of Matthew Melendez.