Chorus pro Musica Presents Mozart: C Minor Mass with New England Philharmonic Friday, May 31, 8 PM

BOSTON - May 18, 2013 - PRLog -- “Betsy Burleigh led Chorus pro Musica in a stirring and elegant, lilting and expansive performance . . .”

– Lloyd Schwartz, Boston Phoenix, June 5, 2012

Boston, MA--Chorus pro Musica, under the direction of Dr. Betsy Burleigh, will present Mozart's C Minor Mass Friday, May 31 at 8:00 PM at  NEC's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA.  This concert will also feature a Chorus pro Musica commissioned work: Meditations Upon The Lamb by composer Peter Child.  This is Dr. Burleigh's last concert with Chorus pro Musica.  For the 2013 - 2014 season, Jamie Kirsch will lead the chorus as its new Music Director.

The "Great" Mass in C minor, is a musical setting of the Mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.  Composed in 1782 and 1783 in Vienna, it's a large-scale work and this performance will feature soprano Kristen Watson, mezzo-soprano Krista River, tenor David Won, baritone Andrew Garland and also The New England Philharmonic.  Considered one of Mozart's most powerful religious works, the Mass was not heard in Boston until Chorus pro Musica's premiere performance in March 1949 at Trinity Church, which drew a standing-room-only crowd of over 2000 people.  The chorus has since performed the work many times to great acclaim

Peter Child's Meditations Upon The Lamb is a composition for baritone [Andrew Garland], chorus, piano, harp and strings and it uses three texts: Blake's "The Lamb," Ted Hughes's "Orf" and the liturgical text Agnus Dei. The innocence of the Blake text underscores the wretchedness of the Hughes, a modern poem about the slaughter of a diseased lamb on a farm. "Those two polarities are reconciled in the Agnus Dei, which of course is about redemption and peace," says Child.  "The idea for the composition stemmed from the fact that my commissioned work is scheduled to be premiered alongside Mozart's C Minor Mass, in which the Agnus Dei is missing," he continues. Meditations Upon The Lamb, which is 9 minutes long, will be performed twice with comments by the composer, who will be attending the concert.  

Since its founding in 1976, the New England Philharmonic has grown from a chamber orchestra to a full symphony orchestra with a unique mission to perform the orchestral works of today’s composers along with standard and lesser-known compositions by the masters of the last 250 years. In the last four years alone, the NEP has presented over a dozen local, regional, and world premieres of works by composers from around the country and Europe.

Concert tickets for all this performance at NEC's Jordan Hall are $27, $42 and $57 with discounts available on selected seats for groups, students, seniors and WGBH members. Reserved seats may be selected and tickets purchased at www.choruspromusica.org, or by phone (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) at 800-658-4CPM (800-658-4276).  For wheelchair-accessible seats, call 617-267-7442.  Please visit Chorus pro Musica at www.choruspromusica.org.

Friday, May 31, 2013, 8:00 P.M.  

NEC's Jordan Hall

30 Gainsborough Street, Boston

Mozart C Minor Mass and a commission by Peter Child

Tickets:  $27, $42 and $57; www.choruspromusica.org, or 800-658-4CPM (800-658-4276)

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