{"id":2425,"date":"2017-02-24T16:24:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T16:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2017-03-06T16:27:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T16:27:12","slug":"2425","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2017\/02\/24\/2425\/","title":{"rendered":"Haydn\u2019s Nelson Mass performed in Royal Dockyard Church"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Royal Dockyard Church, Historic Dockyard Chatham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Haydn\u2019s popular Nelson Mass will be performed in the Royal Dockyard Church, Chatham on Wednesday 29 March by the University of Kent Choir and Orchestra (Medway).<\/p>\n

The Mass will be conducted by Dr Stelios Chatziiosifidis and the soprano will be School of Music and Fine Art alumna Philippa Hardiman. It will be preceded by a talk from Richard Holdsworth MBE about Nelson and the Historic Dockyard Chatham<\/p>\n

In 1771, a 12 year-old Horatio Nelson arrived in Chatham to begin one of the most celebrated careers of all time.\u00a0 In a unique collaboration to celebrate these historic connections between Britain\u2019s most celebrated naval figure and the award winning Historic Dockyard Chatham, the School of Music and Fine Art (whose Medway campus is located on the Dockyard) and the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust present a performance of the present a performance of the Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei of Haydn\u2019s popular Nelson Mass<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Nelson Mass is Haydn’s largest – and his only minor-key mass, set in D minor at the opening, but leading to a victorious D major finale.\u00a0 It is also one of his most well-known and beloved choral works, and notable for the demands on the soprano soloist. Haydn later catalogued the Nelson Mass as\u00a0Missa in Angustiis<\/em>\u00a0(mass for troubled times).<\/p>\n

Comments Dr Ben Curry, Lecturer & Director of Music Programmes,\u00a0 School of Music & Fine Art:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Nelson Mass is widely regarded as one of Haydn\u2019s greatest works.\u00a0 It\u2019s performance in the Royal Dockyard Church, built around the time that the mass was composed, provides a unique opportunity to reflect upon and celebrate the drama and beauty of Haydn\u2019s music and the extraordinary naval history of Chatham.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first half of the concert will feature items from\u00a0the School of Music and Fine Art World Percussion Ensemble, Pop, Rock and Soul Choir, and Chamber Music Forum, and includes Bach Keyboard Concerto in F minor, 1st movement; Khachaturian trio for clarinet, violin and piano, 1st movement; Message Ground <\/em>for two violins and bass guitar\u00a0by Robert Davidson, Guitar Ensemble and Advanced Improvisation Group.<\/p>\n

The concert starts at 7.30pm. Tickets, priced \u00a310, are available for purchase from\u00a0the\u00a0Gulbenkian webpages<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Historic Dockyard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Haydn\u2019s popular Nelson Mass will be performed in the Royal Dockyard Church, Chatham on Wednesday 29 March by the University of Kent Choir and Orchestra (Medway). The Mass will be conducted by Dr Stelios Chatziiosifidis and the soprano will be School of Music and Fine Art alumna Philippa Hardiman. It will be preceded by … Continue reading Haydn\u2019s Nelson Mass performed in Royal Dockyard Church<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22922,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1252,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/2440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}