[Unicum] Kodaly Concert Update October 14

I am copying information on the Kodaly Concert at the National Presbyterian Church on October 14.  This promises to be a great concert and tribute to Kodaly as both a great musician and humane person.  (Sorry, format has been simplified)

 

“…music is a spiritual food for which there is no substitute…” — Zoltán Kodály

 

On Sunday, October 14, at 4:00 pm, the Washington Master Chorale will present its

opening event of the 2012-13 season — The Mystical Supper: Sacred Food Amid

Spiritual Famine. Led by artistic director Thomas Colohan, this concert will feature Zoltán

Kodály’s stirring masterpiece, the Missa Brevis, paired with a cappella motets from the Russian

Orthodox tradition by Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Gretchaninoff, and others. The chorale will

be joined by guest artist, Paul Skevington, who will accompany the Missa Brevis on organ.

 

 

Zoltán Kodály was not only a great Hungarian composer and educator; he

was also a man of considerable courage. Indeed, courage and spiritual

nourishment were at the core of his 1944 masterpiece Missa Brevis in

Tempore Belli (Mass in Time of War) for chorus and organ — a reworking of

his “Organ Mass” composed in 1942. Kodály wrote this work while he was

in hiding with his Jewish wife, Emma Sandor, in a Budapest convent during

the Nazi occupation of Hungary. The work was premiered in the cloakroom

of the Budapest Opera House on February 11, 1945. Two days later, the

Soviet allies liberated Budapest.

 

Pre-Concert Lecture at 3:00 pm

 

You are also invited to a free pre-concert lecture on the dramatic story

behind Kodály’s Missa Brevis, and the turbulent history of Hungary in the

decades leading up to the Soviet liberation on February 13, 1945. This

lecture is being developed in cooperation with scholars and resources

from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

 

TICKETS:

$50 / $35 / $25 (adult orchestra sections)

$20 / $10 (adult balcony / student balcony)

 

INFORMATION: www.washingtonmasterchorale.org

 

The National Presbyterian Church | 4101 Nebraska Ave. NW | Washington, DC