Manhattan Concert Productions Presents: "An Evening of Classic Masterworks"

Fauré's Requiem & Haydn's "Lord Nelson Mass" at Carnegie Hall

Be there when the Masterworks Festival Chorus and the New York City Chamber Orchestra perform two sublime masterworks -- Fauré's Requiem & Haydn's "Lord Nelson Mass" -- on the Perelman Stage at the world-famous Carnegie Hall. As organist at the famed La Madeleine church in Paris, Gabriel Fauré grew tired of pounding out the same songs funeral after funeral. So in 1887, he started to compose his own Requiem, a Mass for the Dead which would live on as one of the most beloved pieces in the choral repertoire. Haydn penned his triumphant "Nelson Mass" in 1798 during the difficult Napoleonic war period, in which the French dictator's forces threatened to take over the composer's beloved Austria. Originally titled "Missa in Angustiis (Mass for Troubled Times)", it was given its popular nickname when the British Battle of the Nile hero Lord Nelson came to hear it performed in person.