Sunday, December 16 performance at 4 pm in Westminster Presbyterian Church continues Winter Holiday Season
On Sunday afternoon, December 16 at 4 pm in Westminster Presbyterian Church in downtown Dayton, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra presents Handel’s Messiah. This is the second of four Special Events in the 2007-2008 Portraits in Sound Season and the DPO’s Winter Holiday Season.
Soprano Andrea Chenoweth, countertenor Steven Rickards, tenor John Wesley Wright, baritone Elias Mokole, and the Dayton Philharmonic Chamber Choir (Hank Dahlman chorus director) join the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and Music Director Neal Gittleman in a presentation of a perennial favorite and one of the most beloved oratorios of all time. It’s Handel’s beautiful statement of faith, Messiah. Despite Handel’s fame as London’s leading musical personality, his oratorio Messiah premiered in Dublin, Ireland in 1742 to tremendous acclaim. The Dublin Journal gushed, “The Sublime, the Grand, and the Tender, adapted to the most elevated, majestick and moving Words, conspired to transport and charm the ravished Heart and Ear.”
Single Ticket Prices: $24 General Admission. Tickets available at Ticket center Stage, (888) 228-3630 or www.daytonphilharmonic.com . Westminster Presbyterian Church is located at 126 N. Wilkinson Street.