THE CREATION
May 17, 2024 | 7:30 pm | Music Hall
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Program
HAYDN: The Creation
Artists
Robert Porco, conductor
Camilla Tilling, soprano
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Alexander Birch Elliott, baritone
Venue
Music HallWhat'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.
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.
Earl Rivers Bio
Earl Rivers is Professor Emeritus of Conducting at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) where over a 50-year career at CCM he served as Director of Choral Studies for 25 years from 1995-2020, and Music Director Emeritus of Cincinnati’s Vocal Arts Ensemble, which he led for 20 seasons from 1998-2008. He continues as Director of Music at Hyde Park’s Knox Presbyterian Church where he leads the Knox Choir that has premiered 15 newly commissioned works and offered Cincinnati choral/orchestral premieres on the Knox Music Series. Rivers has received Choral America’s Michael Korn Founders Award for Development of the Choral Art, honoring a lifetime of significant contributions to the professional choral arts.