March 25 - 7:30pm
March 26 - 2:30pm

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SYMPHONY & CHOIRS
Uri Mayer, conductor
Anna Boyes, soprano
Nicole Percifield, alto
Marcel d’Entremont, tenor
Bradley Christensen, baritone

The Faculty of Music Choirs and the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra perform Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Beethoven’s Mass in C Major.

Beethoven’s Mass was written in 1807 to a commission from notable musical patron, Prince Nikolaus Esterházy II. It’s premiere didn’t receive the reception Beethoven might have liked by Esterházy and music critic E. T. A. Hoffmann; the apparent reason is that the work was underrehearsed and lacking in sufficient forces. However, it was published in 1812 by Breitkopf & Härtel, and has experience some popularity since.

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