Esther & Jonah
Collaboration with Ars Lyrica Houston
Feb
16
Friday, February 16, 2018 | 7:30 P.M.
Collaboration with Ars Lyrica Houston
Zilkha Hall
The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
800 Bagby Street, Houston
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
HANDEL Esther
PRE-CONCERT TALK
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7:00 P.M. with the artists
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.
ARTISTS
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Rick Erickson, Conductor (Jonah)
Matthew Dirst, Conductor (Esther)
Jennifer Bates, Soprano
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Countertenor
Eduardo Tercero, Tenor
Bach Choir
Ars Lyrica Houston
RECEPTION
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Join us for a reception after the
performance to meet the artists.