Glorious Italian Baroque Christmas music, Master Singers & strings, Free Concert, Middleburg Heights
With brilliant strings and angelic voices, this program of Late Baroque Italian music is an exhilarating start of the Christmas season. Among the most celebrated works of this period is Antonio Vivaldi's "Gloria" of 1715. Its text, beginning "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will," (Luke 2:14) is the declaration of angels at the birth of Christ. The tidings of joy to the world began with the infant Jesus' mother Mary at the news that she would bear a savior to the Earth. Her text, interpreted by Francesco Durante (in a 1720 composition previously attributed to Pergolesi) and in 1763 by an early classical Giacomo Puccini (great-great grandfather of the opera composer) is simple. "Magnificat" is her speech, "My soul magnifies the Lord . . . for He has put down the mighty and has exalted the humble and meek." This 18th Century music is full of wonder and hope, still touching the hearts of all who look forward to this glad time of year. Dr. Marc Weagraff directs Master Singers Chorale of Northeast Ohio, with string orchestra and featured soloists mezzo-soprano Kimberly Lauritsen and soprano Gloree Nell Wood. The Ohio Arts Council and the Akron Community Foundation have sponsored this program to be presented with Free Admission.
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