Name: 200 Voices Mendelssohn Elijah Combined Choirs From hastings and Freiburg, Germany
Start: 2023-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
Location: De La Warr Pavilion

Organization

Cantor

Soprano

Helen May

Die Witwe

Contralto

Marta Fontanals-Simmons

Ein Engel

Tenor

Anthony Flaum

Obadjah

Baixo-barítono

Jack Lawrence-Jones

Elias

Maestro

Márcio da Silva

Orchestra

Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra

Others

Hastings Philharmonic Choir

Chor Münchweier

Cantemus! Gundelfingen

Visiting Choirs from Freiburg (Germany)

200 Voices Mendelssohn Elijah Combined Choirs From ​hastings and Freiburg, Germany

Bexhill

Reino Unido

De La Warr Pavilion

200 VOICES  MENDELSSOHN Elijah  Combined choirs from ​Hastings and Freiburg, Germany: Elias Mendelssohn

Public

Eliseu

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentista

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da Gambist

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Ator

Broadcasting

Cenógrafo

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Chorus Director

Compositor

Coral

Coreógrafo

Dançarino

Designer de Iluminação

Designer de Som

Designer de Vídeo

Diretor de Palco

Dramaturgo

Estilista

Estilista de cabelo

Extra

Illustrator

Libretista

Maquiador

Mestre de Coro

Orchestra Operations

Orquestra

Other

Photographer

Poet

Produtor executivo

Repetidor

Stage Manager

Teacher

Tradutor

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Mezzo-soprano

Baixo

Barítono

Contratenor

Alto

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Vocalista Infantil

HPO are delighted to be uniting local choirs with visiting choirs from Freiburg, Germany to share in an impressive performance of Mendelssohn's dramatic and inspiring oratorio Elijah. Visiting choirs include Chor Münchweier, Cantemus! Gundelfingen and school choirs from Ettenheim.

Hailed as the Messiah of its day, this glorious work was a hugely popular and cemented Mendelssohn's position as one of the greatest composers of sacred music. 

A review published in The Times shortly afterwards was unstinting in its praise: ‘The last note of Elijah was drowned in a long-continued unanimous volley of plaudits, vociferous and deafening ... never was there a more complete triumph; never a more thorough and speedy recognition of a great work of art.’

Felix Mendelssohn was born into a wealthy, cultured Jewish family during a troubled period in European history when Jews were seeking after equal civil rights. His grandfather Moses was one of Europe’s most influential thinkers and the last major philosopher of the Enlightenment, and his father, Abraham, was a successful banker. Moses changed the family name from Mendel Dessau to Mendelssohn. Felix’s parents added Bartholdy to the family name, converted to Protestantism, and had their four children baptized. Although Felix became a committed Lutheran, he refused to adopt Bartholdy as a surname.

As youngsters, both Felix and his sister Fanny were sent to Paris to study piano and the works of Mozart and Bach. Musicians of the day praised the precociously gifted Felix as the second Mozart. During Felix’s teens, he was already composing mature works, including 12 string symphonies, a symphony for full orchestra, and the overture A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

After completing his studies at Berlin University, Mendelssohn travelled and performed all over Europe. He became a favourite composer and friend of Queen Victoria and Prince Consort Albert. When he was 26, he became conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig. His concert seasons were unmatched in Europe, both in musical quality and repertoire. When he conducted the first performance of Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion since the composer’s death 79 years earlier, he rescued Bach from obscurity.

Mendelssohn and his contemporaries faced the early 19th-century challenge of appealing to the rising middle class, who were a much more diverse audience than music’s formerly small, homogeneous, upper-class audience. Mendelssohn and his colleagues committed themselves to creating programme music, in which the instrumentation conveys the meaning of words and, ultimately expresses what words cannot.

Mendelssohn used two musical forms — the chorale and large instrumental works with chorale-like finales — to advance themes of reconciliation and brotherhood. His selection of Biblical texts for his two great oratorios, St. Paul and Elijah, exemplify his devotion to the task.

English

200 Voices Mendelssohn Elijah Combined Choirs From hastings and Freiburg, Germany by Mendelssohn, dom 30 jul 2023, De (2023/2023), Regente Márcio da Silva, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, Reino Unido

Créditos do espetáculo (Elenco & Equipe )

Elenco

Conjunto

Programa, Sobre & Sinopse

Fotos

Leitura adicional

Datas e locais de apresentação

Locais de Eventos

200 Voices Mendelssohn Elijah Combined Choirs From ​hastings and Freiburg, Germany by Mendelssohn, dom 30 jul 2023, De (2023/2023), Regente Márcio da Silva, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, Reino Unido