<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span></div><span style="font-family: monospace; ">Kurt Sauer, director of the Medina Chorus, has programmed an ambitious work for the 80-year-old ensemble's spring concert: Franz Joseph Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass, which Haydn titled Missa in Angustiis (Mass for Troubled Times). The concert will be on Saturday, May 2, at 7 p.m. at the Medina Presbyterian Church, 5020 Burgundy Bay Blvd. in Medina. Rehearsals, which will be at the same location, start on Monday, Feb. 2, at 7 p.m. and will be held every Monday until the concert. </span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">No auditions are required. Cost of the music is $50 per person, $75 for a couple and $90 for a family. We ask that you show up a half-hour early for the first rehearsal to sign up and receive your music. If you have any questions, contact Chorus President Tom Burnett at 330-461-3604, or Kurt Sauer at 330-225-0049. Visit the chorus website </span><a href="http://www.medinachorus.com/" style="font-family: monospace; ">www.medinachorus.com</a><span style="font-family: monospace; "> for more information.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">The mass, which Haydn's biographer has called his "greatest single composition," was written during a time when his native Austria was under threat of invasion by Napoleon. It acquired its nickname when Admiral Horatio Nelson, who had defeated Napoleon just weeks before the piece's 1798 premiere, visited Vienna in 1800.</span><div><span style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span></div></body></html>