GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Calvin Oratorio Society will present Haydn's "The Seasons" at Calvin College for the very first time. Music director Joel Navarro will lead the soloists, the Calvin Oratorio Society ...

The last concert composer Franz Joseph Haydn attended before his death took place in Vienna on March 27, 1808. The program consisted of a single work, Haydn’s own oratorio, “The Creation,” an ...

Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation,” played Thursday night at the Walt Disney Concert Hall by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, begins with a six-minute orchestral depiction of chaos, all wandering harmonies ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A funny thing happened on the way to the Cleveland Orchestra's performance of Haydn's oratorio "The Seasons" Thursday night when two of its three soloists took ill just hours before ...

Evergreen of Evergreens, Oratorio of Oratorios, forever and ever! Would Handel’s “Messiah” be as ubiquitous if the composer had, in summer 1741, been handed a different biblical life to set to music, ...

We don’t hear much of Franz Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Seasons these days. That’s a shame because while this musical collage of spring festivals, summer storms, autumnal hunts and cold, gloomy winter ...

Are we allowed anymore to accept the world in which we live as an excellent place? Can we not marvel at nourishing oceans and dry lands without fear for our future, or find wonder in birds and snakes ...

Of all the immortal composers, Haydn had the best sense of humor. It was on abundant display Friday night when the Florida Orchestra, Master Chorale and a trio of vocal soloists gave a ravishing ...

Haydn's famous oratorio propounds the legend of God's creation of the world in all its innocence and mystery, from chaos to its crowning achievement, the first man and woman, conveying its images in ...

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