COVID-19 UPDATE
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Health & Safety
COVID-19: The Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra is committed to creating a safe and comfortable environment for its musicians, patrons, staff, and volunteers. To ensure your experience with The Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra is as safe as possible, we continue to consult with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and local public health authorities for health and safety guidelines.
Any guests who are feeling ill or experiencing symptoms related to a cold or infectious disease are asked to stay home.
Masking is required for GLCO musicians, chorus, and staff. Masks are strongly recommended for audience members. A sell-out crowd is expected at the Messiah concerts.
Assumption of Risk
You acknowledge the contagious nature of COVID-19 and on behalf of yourself and any accompanying minor, voluntarily assume all risks and danger incidental to attending an event offered by GLCO, whether occurring before, during, or after the event, and you waive any claims for personal injury, death, illness, damage, loss, claim, liability, or expense of any kind against the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra and its agents, sponsors, officers, directors, shareholders, owners, and employees.
CONCERT DETAILS
German composer George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) wrote “Messiah”, an English language oratorio, in 1741.
In addition to the familiar “Messiah” music, there will also be some selections from Johann Sebastian Bach.
Bach wrote the score of his Christmas Oratorio in the year 1734. Unlike other Baroque era oratorios, Bach’s is divided into six parts for the Festival of Christmas. The Festival is celebrated successive days, starting on Christmas Day and the two following days, then on New Years’ Day and the Sunday after that, with the 6th section on the Festival of the Epiphany.
The overture consists of the introduction to the opening chorus and will be followed by the alto aria several movements later, an appropriate setting for Handel’s “Messiah”.