The Guadalajara Reporter

Haydn choral performances slated

The prestigious Jalisco State Choir sings a free concert of “Stabat Mater,” a religious work by Franz Joseph Haydn, at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 20, in the Paraninfo of the University of Guadalajara, highly renowned for its acoustics and the 1936 mural by Orozco on its cupola.

The concert will be repeated on Thursday, November 29, 8 p.m., at the Instituto Cultural Cabañas.

Sergio Hernandez leads the prestigious choir’s 41 singers in this piece, which recounts the painful vigil maintained by the mother of Jesus at her son’s crucifixion. The 70-minute work, composed in 1767, is said to have been Haydn’s best known sacred work in his lifetime, although today it has been eclipsed in popularity by works of the same name by other composers.

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