Hillyer Community Chorus

Hillyer Community Chorus Spectrum: Mozart to Randall Thompson

 

Choral Music Review by Paul D. Williams, May 17, 2015

CVNC:  An Online Arts Journal in North Carolina

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Quick now, what composer comes to mind when you hear the expression, "Missa Solemnis?" If you came up with anyone in addition to Beethoven, then you really know your liturgical music. Or perhaps you were simply in attendance for the latest presentation by the Hillyer Community Chorus in the grand old downtown Hillyer Memorial Christian Church. There, the church's own Bill Rashleigh led the chorus with orchestra and soloists in Mozart's Mass in C minor (K. 139), one of several non-Beethoven works sometimes referred to as Missa Solemnis. In so doing, the musicians solemnized a bright spring Sunday afternoon.

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http://cvnc.org/article.cfm?articleId=7456

 

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