Conspirare
Roberto Sierra’s Missa Latina
Sunday, June 12, 2011, 7:00 PM
The Long Center for the Performing Arts, 701 W. Riverside Drive*
$50/40/30/20 Tickets available from The Long Center - For more info, call 512.476.5775 or check conspirare.org.
Soloists Heidi Grant Murphy and Nathaniel Webster, Conspirare, Conspirare Symphonic Choir, Texas State Chorale, and full orchestra in a blockbuster spiced with Latin energy.
The season closes with a choral-orchestral spectacular, the Austin premiere of Puerto Rican composer Roberto Sierra’s Missa Latina ‘For Peace’. Acclaimed soprano Heidi Grant Murphy and baritone Daniel Teadt will appear with a performing force of nearly two hundred musicians from Conspirare and the Victoria Bach Festival under the direction of Craig Hella Johnson.
Commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C., Missa Latina was hailed after its premiere as “the most significant symphonic premiere in [D.C.] since Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem.” Another reviewer said: “I can’t imagine anyone who starts listening to Missa Latina wanting to [stop] before it is over.” Missa Latina received a 2009 Grammy® nomination for Best Classical Contemporary Composition.
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* A NOTE ABOUT PARKING FOR MISSA LATINA
We have been advised that on June 12, traffic will be restricted on Riverside Drive near the Long Center, due to a City of Austin construction project. Patrons attending Missa Latina are encouraged to use the south parking garage entrance on Barton Springs Road, or to allow extra time to access the garage from Riverside Drive.
