CBS Choir and Orchestra presents Mozart’s “Alleluia” Cantata and two Haydn masterworks

Mozart’s “Alleluia” Cantata, and two Haydn masterworks will be presented by the CBS Choir & Orchestra on Sunday 30th September 2018, 3.00 p.m. at St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, 373 Manchester Street.

Admission will be by programme $20.00 and $15.00, available at the door.

Haydn’s Miracle Symphony takes its name from its first performance in London, 1795, when the pounding music and the sight of the world-famous composer conducting  caused an over-excited audience to rush towards the stage, escaping with their lives when a great chandelier crashed down behind them on the floor.

Mozart’s Cantata Exsultate Jubilate, to be sung by Sarah-Jane Rennie, was written in 1722 for a celebrated 25-year-old Milanese castrato, Venanzio Rauzzini, also acclaimed as a harpsichordist and composer.

The major work on the programme is Haydn’s Theresienmesse, fourth of the six great Masses he wrote annually at the end of his life, incorporating all his creative genuis.