UNCW Concert Choir Performs Haydn’s Creation
4/8/2005 11:28:21 AM
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April 7, 2005
Wilmington, N.C.— The University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Concert Choir will perform Franz Joseph Haydn’s Creation at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 17 in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 16 N. 16th St. in Wilmington. The concert is free and open to the public.
R.G. Bratby, a contributing author for Classic Notes, writes that “Haydn's music is always, fundamentally, that of simple humanity – firmly rooted amongst men, but constantly aspiring to be worthy of an infinitely benevolent God and His Creation. Through its profound and optimistic piety, its unaffected sincerity of expression and its true Enlightenment confidence in mankind’s potential for good, Joseph Haydn’s Creation comes as close to attaining this as any music ever can. He could have succeeded thus in no other way. Understanding this we can approach "The Creation" on its own terms and enjoy it, as audiences have for over 200 years, as ‘the greatest composer of his time at the very height of his powers, gathering all his resources to tackle the central mystery of our existence’ and, above all, as ‘a statement of warm optimism about the world and our place in it, clothed in some of the most gorgeous music of music’s golden age.’”
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Media Contact: Jennifer Johnson, events coordinator, UNCW Department of Music, johnsonje@uncw.edu or 910/962-7416.
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