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300th Anniversary of Padre Kino's Death Celebration Concert

Presented by Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra at Catalina Foothills High School Auditorium

March 13, 2011

A collaborative celebration of the 300th anniversary of Padre Kino's death will feature Mozart's Coronation Mass in C major performed by the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, Tucson Masterworks Chorale, Catalinas Community Chorus and a quartet of vocal soloists.

Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino was born on August 10, 1645 and died on March 15, 1711. Among many achievements, he founded an extensive chain of missions including San Xavier del Bac, and he was among the first European explorers of the Tucson region.

The soloists will be soprano Christi Amonson, mezzo-soprano Angela Diel, tenor Dennis Tamblyn and baritone Seth Kershisnik. SASO Music Director Linus Lerner will conduct. The showpiece of the concert is the Coronation Mass, written by Mozart when he was in his early twenties and court organist and composer at the Salzburg Cathedral. This compact setting of the mass, lasting less than 30 minutes, will be performed by the four soloists, the combined choruses and the orchestra. It is bright and often joyful in mood, using lively rhythms. The orchestration is colorful, including oboes, bassoons, trumpets, horns, trombones and timpani as well as strings.

The first half of the concert will feature the orchestra and each of the soloists. The program opens with Samuel Barber's famous Adagio for Strings. Amonson will sing "Pie Jesu" from Faur?'s Requiem, Diel will sing "Lascia Ch'io Pianga" from Handel's Rinaldo, and Kershisnik will sing "Fecit Potentiam" from C.P.E. Bach's Magnificat. Tamblyn will sing Schubert's Ave Maria. Three selections from Vivaldi's Gloria will complete the first half: "Domine Deus" with Amonson, "Qui Sedes Ad Dexteram Patris" with Diel and "Laudamus Te" with both sopranos.

The choruses will be featured in "The Heavens are Telling" from Haydn's Creation and "How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place" from Brahms' German Requiem.