Oratorio Singers: Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass

The Oratorio Singers, directed by Darryl Nixon, are excited to present Franz Joseph Haydn’s beautiful but seldom performed Lord Nelson Mass, also known as “A Mass for Troubled Times” and selected solos and choruses from George Frederic ever-popular Messiah.  This concert features soloists Marisa Gaetanne – soprano, Shane Hanson – counter tenor, Carmen J. Price – tenor and Andrew Greenwood – bass.  Instrumental accompaniment will be provided by OS415, a specially assembled period orchestra led by Chloe Meyers and includes strings, baroque bassoon, valveless trumpets, timpani and chamber organ.

The concert will begin at 8:00 p.m on Wednesday, April 20, 2016.  Doors open at 7:30 p.m.  The venue is the wonderful acoustic of St Andrew’s-Wesley Church (Burrard at Nelson). For convenient underground parking with direct elevator access, enter the parking garage from the lane between the church and the Century Plaza Hotel.  Translink routes #2, #22 and #44, both northbound and southbound, stop right in front of St. Andrew’s-Wesley Church.