We went Sunday to hear a performance by our oldest American musical ensemble, the Handel & Haydn Society. This time they added Mozart to the mix and featured one of their own products, the rising soprano Teresa Wakim, who gave a lovely account of the aria Exsultate Jubilate and the soprano part of the Coronation Mass.
Although all the other pieces on the program had, or have, been used at bona fide coronation ceremonies, the Mass never was. Too bad, because it is short and lovely, particularly the concluding soprano line for the Agnus Dei.
