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THE CREATION

May 17, 2024 | 7:30 pm | Music Hall

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Program

HAYDN: The Creation

Venue

Music Hall

What's Interesting

As the May Festival enters a new era of artistic innovation and collaboration, it seems only fitting to begin the 2024 Festival with a work symbolizing creation. Few works of sacred music are more cheerful and joyous than Haydn's The Creation. It exemplifies Haydn’s own personal faith and optimism in humanity, as well as his profound belief in music’s ability to edify, uplift and inspire. Through the inspired use of soloists, full chorus and orchestra, The Creation depicts and celebrates the creation of the earth, and all of its flora and fauna, as narrated in Biblical passages from Genesis and Psalms, as well as from John Milton’s Paradise Lost.

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Pre Concert Talk
6:30-7 PM Pre-concert talk with Matthew Swanson, Julia Wolfe, and Earl Rivers in Corbett Tower

This concert is sponsored in loving memory of Ivan and Patty Misrach by their many friends.

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