By Reg Huston

It wasn’t actually “Haydn’s Greatest Hits,”  but it was a great hit nevertheless. Bruno Weil and the Festival Orchestra were at their elegant best, and the Chorale, aided by the Youth Chorus, was flawless, once again under the master work of Andrew Megill and John Koza. The evening was a tasteful balance of beautiful music that was both serious and fun, entertaining educational enlightenment supplied by David Gordon’s mini-life history of Haydn (with snippets from Haydn’s own letters) plus a concert stage full of the regulars and the next generation of performers.

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