Article: 'Sacred Music from Eastern Europe' at St. Joseph Church, Detroit, on June 6.

DETROIT, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- St. Joseph Church, Detroit, continues its 144-year tradition of the orchestral Mass with "Sacred Music from Eastern Europe" for a special service at noon on June 6, 1999, the Feast of Corpus Christi.

The tradition of Mass settings with orchestra flowered in the old Hapsburg empire and in the southern German territories around it. The music for this service comes from countries ruled by the Hapsburgs. The major work is the first Detroit-area performance of the little-known Missa Brevis of the Bohemian composer Zdenek Fibich, whose symphonies were recently recorded by Neeme Jarvi and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Dating from the ...

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