TUCSON MASTERWORKS CHORALE SPRING CONCERT
"AWAKE YOUR SOUL"

Marcela Molina
Conductor & Artistic Director

John Rutter: Mass of the Children
Our Spring Concert featured the Tucson Girls Chorus

Joseph Haydn: Missa Brevis St. Joannis de Deo "The Little Organ Mass"

on Saturday, May 9, 2009,
at Catalina United Methodist Church

Mass of the Children: Rutter This is John Rutter's first major work in over ten years, debuting at Carnegie Hall in February 2003. Rutter says he wrote this partly to repay a debt, to give young singers the chance to sing with adult professionals as he did as a boy soprano. He has made a major contribution to the choral singers repertoire with this piece. The work opens with the children's choir singing the joyful words of Thomas Ken; the text of the mass is standard Latin with several poems added, including one by William Blake.

Missa Brevis St. Joannis de Deo: Haydn
TMC performed The Little Organ Mass commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of the Austrian composer.