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Community Announcement
Three members of the Christ Church Choir, Raymond and Joshua LaFleur and Eileen Mager, are singing in an upcoming concert:
Misa Azteca by composer Joseph Julián Gonzáles.
It will be performed by Carolyn Eynon Singers and the singers and orchestra of ProMusica of Arizona.
• April 2, 2022, 7:00pm, at Barry Goldwater High School Performing Arts Center, 2820 W. Rose Garden Lane, Phoenix
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• April 3, 2022, 3:30pm, at American Lutheran Church, 17200 N. Del Webb Blvd., Sun City
• Tickets: Adults $25; Military & Seniors 65+ $23; Students (ages 16-22) $12. Attendees under 15 are free, if accompanied by a paid adult. Tickets are available online from www.cesingers.com, from CES members, and via the CES hotline 480-591-7000.
About Misa Azteca ...
The music was composed by Joseph Julián González. Text (in Spanish, Latin, and Classic Nahuatl) is from The Roman Catholic Mass and Cantares Mexicanos ...
I. Kyrie II. Gloria III. Gradual IV. Credo V. Sanctus VI. Agnus Dei VII. Salve Regina
VIII. Ite Missa Est
About Joseph Julián González ...
A native of Bakersfield, California, Joseph Julián González began his musical education at California State University, and continued it at UCLA, majoring in classical guitar performance and in composition for motion pictures. Since then, his compositions have been featured in over 200 films, documentaries, and television programs.
In 1997, as part of the Meet the Composer program, González was commissioned to write his Misa Azteca, which debuted at the Tijuana Cultural Center on Dec. 4, 1997, and has since then been performed in venues around the world.
In composing it, he combined Spanish and Latin texts of the Roman Catholic liturgy with songs from Cantares Mexicanos, the largest collection of pre-Columbian Nahuatl songs or poems to have been recorded. He was also influenced by J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor, and by the way Igor Stravinsky and Carl Orff created their blends of old and new, giving Misa Azteca a neo-Baroque feeling.
