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… don’t miss Bay Choral Guild’s presentation of Mendelssohn’s Elijah on March 6, 7, and 8. Mendelssohn’s masterpiece was composed on the cusp of the transition from the Baroque to the Romantic periods. The choruses are modeled on Handel’s works and include two of the, if not the two, most gorgeous choral works ever written—“Lift Thine Eyes” and “He, Watching Over Israel”. The arias are in a somewhat different style, displaying Mendelssohn’s genius as an early Romantic composer. Our performance strives to recreate the premiere Elijah performance at England’s Birmingham Festival in 1846, hence it will be sung in English and accompanied by 27 members of the Jubilate Orchestra, playing period instruments tuned to A430—neither the Baroque tuning of 415 nor the 440 of modern instruments.
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