Season Finale: Born of the Sun
Friday, May 27, 2022 at 8PM & Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 3PM
Schroeder Hall, Green Music Center
Danielle Reutter-Harrah, soprano · Heidi Waterman, alto · Daniel Hutchings, tenor · Paul Murray, bass 
Sonoma Bach Choir · Live Oak Baroque Orchestra
Bachgrounder 35 minutes before each concert

To close our season, we offer Mozart’s two great unfinished works of sacred music: The C Minor Mass (called the ‘Great Mass’) and the ‘Requiem in D Minor’. Although both pieces have been completed—by Mozart’s colleague and assistant Franz Xavier Süssmayr, in the case of the ‘Requiem’, and by modern scholars such as Robert Levin—our performance will essentially consist of the surviving torso of each piece. There can hardly be a more dramatic contrast between the monumental and spacious ‘Great Mass’, composed in 1782-83 as Mozart reached true maturity as a composer of sacred music, and the ‘Requiem’, the spare, succinct, almost ascetic creation of his last days upon the earth.

These concerts are made possible by a generous bequest from our dear friend and comrade
Rick Beebe (1946-2020), who for many years was a mainstay of the Sonoma Bach Choir’s bass section.

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Jimson Weed
Georgia O'Keeffe

Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields
See how these names are fêted by the waving grass
And by the streamers of white cloud
And whispers of wind in the listening sky:
The names of those who in their lives fought for life,
Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.
Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, And left the vivid air signed with their honor.
--Stephen Spender
​from I think continually of those who were truly great


“I’ve just spent a month in Los Angeles helping my failing mom.
​Your concert was so healing for me—like praying.”