Titans of Music

Schedule

Sat Apr 26 2025 at 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Temple Theatre | Saginaw, MI

Date: Saturday April 26 2025

Time: 3:00 PM

Location: Temple Theatre-201 N Washington Ave


Join Us for a Grand Finale Celebrating the Titans of Music!


Saginaw Choral Society is proud to conclude its season with a monumental tribute to the titans of

classical music Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig Van Beethoven.


Mozart was not in the best state of mind when in late 1791 when he received an anonymous

commission to compose a Requiem Mass. His health was deteriorating and he believed he had

been asked to write a requiem as a ‘swansong’ for himself.


Mozart died at age 35 on December 5 1791 leaving the Requiem uncompleted. Mozart’s wife

asked his pupil Franz Xavier Süssmayr to finish the work. Süssmayer did indeed finish it then 

copied the entire piece in his own hand keeping the Requiem shrouded in mystery as to who

wrote what.


Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy was intended to be the concluding work on a benefit concert he

put on for himself on December 22 1808. He wanted a brilliant finale that would showcase all

the musical forces of the evening: piano solo mixed chorus and orchestra. Being a fine pianist

as well as composer he was the soloist at the premier and is known to have improvised the

opening piano solo of the work.


The work includes a sequence of variations on a theme that is felt to be an early version of

Schiller’s “Ode to Joy” theme Beethoven used in his Ninth Symphony. Beethoven himself

acknowledged the kinship of the two works saying the Fantasy was "a setting of the words of

Schiller's immortal "Lied an die Freude" in the same way as my pianoforte fantasia with chorus

but on a far grander scale."


Our performance will feature our own brilliant pianist Catherine McMichael as soloist.

Said to have met only once during their lifetimes these two giants meet again on the iconic

Temple stage when we present Titans of Music in our season ending tribute to two of the

greatest composers of all time!


Ticket Information:

General Admission: $30 $24 $10

Premier Balcony (includes hospitality): $45

Student Tickets: $10. For student tickets seated next to parents call the Box Office at 989-754-7469

​Online: www.templetheatre.com

Where is it happening?

Temple Theatre, 201 N Washington Ave, Saginaw, MI 48607, United States
Tickets

USD 30.00

Saginaw Choral Society

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