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The American Classical Orchestra opens its 42nd Season with a performance featuring Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1.

Franz Josef Haydn wrote his famous choral work in 1798 with the title Missa in Angustiis, or “Mass for Troubled Times,” as Napoleon’s forces were threatening much of Europe, including the composer’s native Austria. In honor of British Admiral Horatio Nelson’s defeat of Napoleon that year in the Battle of the Nile, the mass eventually took on its more familiar nickname “Lord Nelson”.

The performance will feature the young Bolivian soprano Shelén Hughes Camacho, a winner of the 2025 George and Nora London Foundation Competition, in her American Classical Orchestra debut.

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21, concludes the first of three “Celebrate Beethoven!” concerts during 2026-27, continuing the orchestra’s performance cycle of all nine symphonies begun last season in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s death in 1727.

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 marks the beginning of a new musical path for the genre, with sudden harmonic shifts and the use of sforzandi accents. We have entitled the program Turning the Key because the symphony begins with a 7th chord that resolves and then again and again, like the turning of a key!

Hear the only period instrument performance of these fabulous works in New York during the 2026-27 season!

Please note: this event is presented by an outside licensee and is not a production or presentation of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts or a Lincoln Center resident organization.

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