Concerts
Concerts 2012
All performances begin at 7 p.m.
"Live Program Notes" at 6:15 p.m.
Concerts will be performed at St. Francis Xavier Church, 52nd & Troost Avenue, Kansas City, MO.
Saturday, Feb. 18 , 2012
Come celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of the founder of the Puccini dynasty--Giacomo Puccini the Elder (1712-1781), the great-grandfather of the famed romantic opera composer of the same name. Highly popular and productive at the Cathedral of St. Martin in the northern Italian town of Lucca, Puccini's music represents some of the best of Italian sacred choral music in the mid-eighteenth century. Musica Sacra performs seven brief psalm settings and a Magnificat published in 1777.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Four of Kansas City's best-known professional vocalists join Musica Sacra as they conclude their 21st season with Haydn's stellar Lord Nelson Mass. The work was composed in 53 days in 1798, during which time Nelson soundly defeated Napoleon's fleet in the Battle of the Nile. In 1800, Nelson asked Haydn for the pen with which he wrote the composition, and in turn gave the composer his gold watch. In addition, the ensemble will perform the rarely heard Regina Coeli, KV 108 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the composer's three settingsof the well-known Marian text.