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embark | Haydn & Glass

Sunday, October 22 at 7 pm

Featuring the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

Launching our multi-year Homage to Haydn, we kick off our 43rd season with the most lyrical and intimate of his late-blooming masterpieces. As the composer moved into his final decade, “Papa” Haydn’s music retained every bit of its youthful exuberance. From elegant chamber music to exhilarating contrapuntal textures and ecstatic choral climaxes, the Creation Mass is music created by a master at the peak of his powers. Not above having a bit of fun, Haydn playfully threw in a few “licks” from Adam and Eve’s duet in his earlier oratorio The Creation. Hence, the mass’s name.

Swept away. In the “place where music was born,” the local Guarani Indians tell of a singing stone called Itaipú. Painting his ecstatic nature portrait, Glass frames an ancient creation myth against a modern technological wonder — the colossal hydro-electric dam at Itaipú on the Brazil and Paraguay border. Flowing cinematically, the work travels through the musical landscape of one of America’s coolest composers — from the grassy highlands into the sprawling new lake, past the massive dam and on to the sea. Propelled by the pulsating and visceral rhythm of Glass’ monumental minimalism, Itaipú takes you on an unforgettably thrilling sonic journey.

Concert sponsor: Mellon Financial Corporation

Download a guide to the season: chorale-seasonguide0607.pdf, 1.1MB