Mozart, Handel and Schütz to be Celebrated in The City Choir of Washington’s Acclaimed 2018-19 Season Finale

Mozart’s stunning Requiem, and excerpts from Handel’s The
Messiah to highlight Baroque
& Beyond concert event.

–(BUSINESS WIRE)–lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/CCDA?src=hash” target=”_blank”gt;#CCDAlt;/agt;–The City Choir of Washington:

The concert is the fourth and final concert event of TCCW’s 2018-19
concert season concluding Sunday, May 19 with Baroque
& Beyond; a concert celebrating composers
Mozart, Handel, and Heinrich Schütz’ thrilling and rarely-heard Uppsala
Magnificat, a piece originally composed (1665) for three choirs
and orchestra.

Among the individuals and organizations contributing to the concert are
Lecturer Teresa Neff, Ph.D., Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT); Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers, Ph.D.,
Cultural Programs Curator, Goethe
Institut; and, Ulrich Leisinger, Ph.D., Musicologist and
Director of Research, International
Mozart Foundation.

The Austrian
Cultural Forum Washington, Embassy of Austria,
Washington, DC also provided assistance.

TCCW is pleased and appreciative to once again be participating in Do
More 24, an area-wide effort to support a variety of
non-profit organizations including TCCW, taking place noon to noon,
May 22-23. Early giving for Do More 24 begins May 15,
allowing individuals to make contributions in advance of the main event.
Learn more about Do More 24, by visiting https://www.domore24.org/citychoir.

For more information or to purchase tickets for the concert go to: Baroque
& Beyond

NOTE TO MEDIA: For additional
concert information, or to arrange an interview with Artistic
Director Robert Shafer, please contact Michael Darling at (302)
644-7116 or (202) 997-8263 or by email: [email protected].

Contacts

Michael Darling
(302) 644-7116
(202) 997-8263