Handel's Messiah (Classical Music Consort)

Classical Music Consort

presents

Handel's
Messiah

December 12
FRIDAY
7:30pm

Knox College Chapel
59 St. George Street, on East side, just North of College Street


Tickets
$30 / $15 student & senior
general admission


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Classical Music Consort
Choir of the Classical Music Consort
Ashiq Aziz, conductor

Charlotte Corwin, soprano
Susanne Hawkins, alto
Thomas Macleay, tenor
Giles Tomkins, bass


Handel's Messiah, a perennial audience favourite during the holiday season, is here performed on period instruments by the Classical Music Consort, and conducted by its artistic director Ashiq Aziz.

Composed over a period of just over three weeks in the summer of 1741 on a libretto provided by Charles Jennens, it received its first performance in Dublin on 13 April 1742. The proceeds from the concert were donated to local hospitals for the mentally ill, at the request of Jonathan Swift, the Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral. The score itself has undergone numerous revisions, as Handel altered the music depending on the forces available for each performance.

This performance by the CMC makes an attempt at recreating a version of the score as it was originally intended.


Recent praise for the CMC's production of
Handel's Acis & Galatea
(2008 Toronto Fringe Festival)

"Ashiq Aziz gets gorgeous sounds from his original-instrument playing orchestra and fine crop of singers"
(Also labeled Outstanding Production, Outstanding Direction & Design)
****
- Glen Sumi, NOW Toronto

"...a hugely enjoyable production with a refreshing and somewhat unexpected approach that mixed old music with new media."
- Wayne Gooding, Opera Canada

"The lively work is beautifully played and sung."
****
- Christopher Hoile, Eye Weekly

"…the whole is so sincerely presented that it is pretty much guaranteed to win your heart."
- John Terauds, Toronto Star

"Conductor Ashiq Aziz employs an ensemble of period instruments to recreate Handel's composition, and the music shines. The singers embrace every type of Baroque vocal ornamentation; and the effect is wonderfully emotional and poignant, with the silver throated Rosie Coad (Galatea) making a stunning impression. She is present in voice and body, compelling to watch as well as to hear."
- Aurora de Pena, Time and Space Magazine


Knox College Chapel website

Map to Knox College Chapel

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Handel's Messiah (Classical Music Consort)

Knox College Chapel
Fri Dec 12 2008, 7:30pm


Ticket Sales Begin:
Mon Oct 27 2008, 11:00am

Ticket Prices:
adult - $30.00
student - $15.00
senior - $15.00

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E-mail: classicalmusicconsort@gmail.com
Phone: (416) 978-8849
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