Lansing Symphony Orchestra MasterWorks 3: Choral Fantasy
- Cost:
- $15-50 depending on seating
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Dr. David Rayl, conductor
BEETHOVEN- Hallelujah from Christ on the Mount of Olives
SCHUBERT- Mass No. 2 in G Major, D. 167
MOZART- Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425, “Linz”
BRUCKNER- Te Deum
Opening an evening of majestic music is Beethoven’s Hallelujah from “Christ on the Mount of Olives.” This piece was a collaboration with poet Franz Huber and is Beethoven’s only oratorio. One of four masses Schubert wrote while in his teens, the most gentle and simple was his Mass No. 2 in G Major, composed in less than a week and published decades after his death. The second half of the program begins with Mozart’s remarkable Symphony No. 36 in C Major, “Linz,”named after the city Mozart and his new wife Constanze stopped in en route from Salzburg to Vienna, and where he wrote the work. Linz was also home to Anton Bruckner, who claimed the Te Deum to be “the pride of my life.”