Special Concert on Original Music in the California Missions – St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral

Special Concert on Original Music in the California Missions
The National Pastoral Musicians Convention will be held at the Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks this month, July 10-14. St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral will be the locale for one of the concerts being offered for the convention. It will be on Wednesday, July 12, at 7:30pm and will be free admission. The concert looks to be quite interesting and beautiful with a focus on the music in the California missions 200 years ago. All are welcome. 

7/12/2023 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Presenter: Steven Ottományi

Details on session from NPM.org website: Over two hundred years ago, when, in Europe, Mozart was at peak popularity and Beethoven was still a youth, the California Missions resounded with the sound of choir and orchestra. On the opposite side of the North American continent, the simple a cappella hymns and fuguing tunes of William Billings represented the pinnacle of European composition; but at the missions, orchestras and choirs composed of indigenous children and conducted by friars performed routinely in the California missions. Join Chorus Angelorum & the California Mission Sinfonia to experience this oldest scion of choral-orchestral European music in the territory of today’s United States.