Feb

16

Friday, February 16, 2018 | 7:30 P.M.

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Collaboration with Ars Lyrica Houston

 

Zilkha Hall

The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

800 Bagby Street, Houston

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Season subscribers receive a discount.

Tickets are on sale now at the Hobby Center box office: 713-315-2525

PROGRAM

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FELSTED     Jonah

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HANDEL     Esther

PRE-CONCERT TALK

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7:00 P.M. with the artists

 

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Presented in collaboration with Ars Lyrica Houston as part of the Houston Early Music Festival, this program comprises two concise music dramas from opposite ends of the eighteenth century: Handel’s Esther (1718) and Samuel Felsted’s Jonah (1775).

 

With gorgeous arias and stirring choruses, Handel’s first English-language oratorio celebrates an Old Testament heroine’s ultimate victory over the forces of evil. Such works provided valuable models for Samuel Felsted, a composer born to an English family in Jamaica in the early 1740s. His concise setting of the story of Jonah and the whale is the first American oratorio.

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ARTISTS

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Rick Erickson, Conductor (Jonah)

Matthew Dirst, Conductor (Esther)

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Jennifer Bates, Soprano

Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Countertenor

Eduardo Tercero, Tenor

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Bach Choir

Ars Lyrica Houston

RECEPTION

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Join us for a reception after the

performance to meet the artists.