Haydn Bicentenial Celebration - November 9
Lord Nelson Mass
Franz Joseph Haydn
A Great and Glorious Victory - Jonathan Willcocks
Sunday, November 9 at 7 PM
UC Davis Mondavi Center
Heidi Moss, Soprano
Daniela Mack, Mezzo
Michael Mendelsohn, Tenor
Tod Fitzpatrick, Bass
With Projected Supertitles
Join us for two masterpieces celebrating Nelson's victory at Trafalgar in 1805. Hadyn's Lord Nelson Mass is his largest mass and one of his most beloved choral orchestral masterpieces.
Enjoy CSUS Professor William Dillon's talk at the SCSO's October 20th rehearsal on Admiral Nelson and what the Battle of Trafalgar meant for England. (MP3 Sound File)
Jonathan Willcock's A Great and Glorious Victory, composed in 2005 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, celebrates the ultimate victory for humanity and the triumph of the human spirit in the face of the greater forces of nature.