G.F. Handel
Dettingen Te Deum and Coronation Anthems
Sunday, March 25, 2012, 3 pm
Sanders Theatre
Cambridge, MA
Tickets: 20/$34/$48
Coro Allegro's Winter 2012 concert is devoted entirely to works of George Frideric Handel. We open with Handel's Coronation Anthems, a set of pieces that have become a central part of British royal ceremonial life. One of the best known of the anthems, "Zadok the Priest" has been performed at every British coronation since 1727. The concert concludes with the rousing oratorio Dettingen Te Deum, written in 1743 to celebrate the British army's victory over the French in the German town of Dettingen. This masterwork, composed a short two years after Messiah, shares a similar exuberance and richness of sound and spirit. The concert features baritone soloist Adrian Smith, a second-year member of the Opera Institute at Boston University.
At the concert, Coro Allegro is honored to present the fifth annual Daniel Pinkham Award to Donald Teeters, currently in his 44th and final year as music director of The Boston Cecilia. Teeters and Cecilia have performed numerous premieres by prominent local composers and have enlivened Boston’s classical music community with historically informed performances of all of Handel’s major dramatic works for chorus. Teeters is also the organist and music director of All Saints Parish in Brookline and a faculty member at the New England Conservatory.
Coro Allegro established the Daniel Pinkham Award in 2008 to recognize individuals making outstanding contributions to the LGBT and classical choral music communities. During his lifetime, Daniel Pinkham featured prominently in Boston's classical music scene as a sought-after composer, faculty member at New England Conservatory, conductor, organist, and Director of Music at King's Chapel.
