MADISON - The University of Wisconsin Choral Union, including two members from New Glarus, will perform Joseph Haydn's "The Creation" at 3:30 p.m. April 24 at Mills Concert Hall in the UW School of Music, 455 N. Park St., Madison.
Alaina Leger and Sally Lanz of New Glarus are members of the UW Choral Union.
The piece is considered one of the great masterworks of western music and civilization. It has demanding, intricate solos and some of the most inventive orchestral writing of its time, both in the opening depiction of Chaos, the pre-creation state, and in the pictorial writing about animals, water and light at their beginning stages. Part I depicts the stages of creation, Part II a celebration of that creation, and Part III the new love between Adam and Eve.
"The Creation" debuted in London and was sung in English. The UW production uses the Robert Shaw version of the English text, which clears up some of the original strange grammar that resulted from Haydn's libretto going through a German translation and back to English. The libretto mixes Biblical language with new language for the soloists.
This is a ticketed performance. Parking is free on Sundays in Granger Hall, Lot 7. Visit the website for more information: music.wisc.edu.
Alaina Leger and Sally Lanz of New Glarus are members of the UW Choral Union.
The piece is considered one of the great masterworks of western music and civilization. It has demanding, intricate solos and some of the most inventive orchestral writing of its time, both in the opening depiction of Chaos, the pre-creation state, and in the pictorial writing about animals, water and light at their beginning stages. Part I depicts the stages of creation, Part II a celebration of that creation, and Part III the new love between Adam and Eve.
"The Creation" debuted in London and was sung in English. The UW production uses the Robert Shaw version of the English text, which clears up some of the original strange grammar that resulted from Haydn's libretto going through a German translation and back to English. The libretto mixes Biblical language with new language for the soloists.
This is a ticketed performance. Parking is free on Sundays in Granger Hall, Lot 7. Visit the website for more information: music.wisc.edu.
