Program Notes - Highlights from The Creation
This performance of Franz Joseph Haydn's The Creation presented on Sunday, March 28, 1999 in the Sanctuary of Roswell United Methodist Church occurred exactly two hundred years and nine days after the first public performance of the work.
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The composer himself conducted the premiere on March 19, 1799 with a performing force of 400 singers and instrumentalists.
The performance recorded here, comparable in size to that first performance, featured the combined forces of:
The Roswell UMC Sanctuary Choir,
The Michael O'Neal Singers,
Georgia Sinfonia,
Tom Alderman, organist,
soloists Arietha Lockhart, Oliver Sueing, and David Rice,
and conductor Dr. Michael O'Neal.
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The Roswell United Methodist Sanctuary Choir provides music weekly for the Sunday morning worship services and presents several major concerts each year as a part of the Sounds of the Spirit Concert Series. With an active membership of 180 voices, the choir provides an opportunity for volunteer musicians to express and develop their faith through music.
Georgia Sinfonia, a professional chamber orchestra active founded in 1993, is a cooperative patterned after the prestigious Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston. Consisting of nearly forty professional musicians, Georgia Sinfonia taps the vast and seldom performed repertory suitable for the chamber orchestra, and aims to connect Georgia's finest musicians with the large audience that resides within the Atlanta region.
Arietha Lockhart has appeared as soloist with the Atlanta Symphony Chamber Chorus in Carnegie Hall, with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Robert Shaw Chamber Singers, the Robert Shaw Singers in France and the Bel Canto Atlanta opera. Ms. Lockhart holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degree from the University of Alabama, and currently teaches music at the elementary level in DeKalb County.
Oliver Sueing is a dramatic tenor who began singing professionally while at the Institute for European Studies and Vienna Academy of Music in Austria. His credits include the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess starring the late Cab Calloway, as a featured soloist on The Impossible Dream performed at the Inauguration of President Jimmy Carter, and on NBC's production of Sister, Sister produced by Maya Angelou. Mr. Sueing is featured on ASO's recordings Choral Masterpieces and Beethoven's Choral Fantasy.
David Rice has appeared as an oratorio and concert soloist with the Florida Orchestra, Houston Ballet, San Francisco Sinfonia, Boston Masterworks Chorale, the Charlotte Symphony, Orchestra Atlanta, and as a featured soloist with Robert Shaw in concerts in France and with the Stockholm Radio Orchestra. Mr. Rice is a student at the Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, where he resides with his wife, Karolyn, and sons Brendan and Brian.
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