Past Concerts

		Bach St. Matthew Passion Major Spring Performance Sunday, May 17, 2009 - CSUF Concert Hall
		Holiday Concert with the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra Saroyan Theatre - Sunday, December 7, 2008

John Rutter's The Reluctant Dragon and Requiem Saturday, November 8, and Sunday, November 9, 2008

Cries, Sighs, and Prayers - Saturday, May 3, 2008 Coro Piccolo performs Igor Stravinsky's Mass Master Chorale sings Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzer
Concerts, Saturday & Sunday, May 10 & 11, 2008 With the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra   Master Chorale and the Chamber Singers from Fresno State University and Fresno City College sings Bernstein's Chichester Psalms

Fresno Community Chorus Travels to China March 15 - 23, 2008 An event of the Beijing City Festival: Perform in Harmony With Olympic Spirit

Holiday Jubilee With the Fresno Philharmonic December 1 & 2, 2007 - Saroyan Theatre A Christmas Garland, Betelehemu Gloria  from Misa Criolla, Song of Galilee, The Many Moods Of Christmas

WIND and LIGHT Music of John Rutter and Morten Lauridsen ― November 10 & 11, 2007
		The Wind in the Willows by John Rutter Coro Piccolo and Orchestra Ensemble

Lux Aeterna by Morten Lauridsen Master Chorale and Orchestra

Pictures from The Wind in the Willows Performance

Pictures from The Wind in the Willows Rehearsal 

Mozart Grand Mass in C Minor

The Community Chorus gave the American premiere of the new reconstruction of this masterpiece by British musicologist Dr. Philip Wilby.

University Journal Article

The Reconstruction of Mozart's Mass in C Minor

The genesis of Mozart's C minor Mass is unique. Shortly before Mozart and Constanze Weber were married in 1782, the composer undertook to write a large-scale setting of the mass. Mozart clearly relished this opportunity to expand the horizons of his musical vision (which had been so curtailed by his former employer Archbishop Colloredo) and also to show off his new wife by composing some of his finest music for her to sing.

Our intentions in this reconstruction are threefold: to provide a complete score of Mozart's surviving music (including unpicking the Sanctus and Benedictus, which exist only in a

short score by a third party); to construct the missing movements from existing material in order to extend Mozart's half-mass into a conventional six-movement mass setting and to provide an approximation of the original liturgical context.

In the course of constructing the missing parts of the Mass, we have drawn on a number of sources: a sketch titled Solfegio [sic] (kv393) that Mozart had already used in the composition of the Christe eleison, sketch material for the Credo in unum Deum and Et incarnates est, some material from the Attwood Studybook and movements from the Viennese oratorio Davidde penitente (K 469). Davidde penitente, completed by March 1785, recycles all the music from the Kyrie and Gloria of the C minor Mass alongside newly composed material, some of which we have used in this reconstruction.

Phillip Wilby
Fr Peter Allan