2009 - 2010 Concert Season
Please join us as we celebrate our 61st season as the Neponset Choral Society.
Fall, 2009: Mostly Mendelssohn
This winter concert celebrates several anniversaries: Mendelssohn’s 200th birthday, the anniversary of Haydn’s death that same year (he lived the longest of our three composers), and Purcell’s 350th birthday.
- Advent und Weihnachten, from Opus 79
- From Three Motets, Opus 69: #2, Jubilate Deo, #3, Magnificat
- From Elijah: Lift Thine Eyes; He, Watching Over Israel; And Then Shall Your Light Break Forth
- Dona Nobis Pacem from “Grosse Orgelmesse,” - Franz Joseph Haydn
- Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis - Henry Purcell
Spring, 2010: The Musical Power of 10
Saturday, May 1 - 8:00 pm / Sunday, May 2 - 2:30 pm
Continuing with our musical theme of celebrating anniversaries, the Spring concert offers:
- Requiem in C Minor - Luigi Cherubini (250th Birthday)
- Op. 25, No. 1: Etude in A Flat Major by Frédéric Chopin (200th Birthday)
- In expositione funeris: Libera me Domine - Johann Joseph Fux (350th Birthday)
- Gloria - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (300th Birthday)
- Let Down the Bars - Samuel Barber (100th Birthday)
- Sure on this Shining Night - Samuel Barber
- Zigeunerleben - Robert Schumann (200th Birthday)
