If you go WHAT: Haydn’s “The Creation,” FLC String Chamber Orchestra, Choirs and community musicians, conducted by Brendan Barker. WHEN: 7 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday.

Both Daniel Hege and Michael Hanawalt put Joseph Haydn’s “The Creation” in the highest echelon of choral-orchestral works, alongside the likes of Handel’s “Messiah.” ...

Haydn's Creation is based on the first 2 chapters of Genesis. It is the story of God's creation of the world as told by three archangels: Gabriel, Uriel and Raphael.

The Chamber Singers of Iowa City will perform The Creation at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 8 at the Voxman Music Building.

May we believe in the musical case for dark chaos resolving into blinding light of reason that Haydn so tantalizingly makes to open his great oratorio, “The Creation”? Presumably not.

The Grant Park Music Festival’s “Creation,” which closed the summer season on Saturday in its German version, was also a capital-R Romantic endeavor.

At the end lies a new beginning, as the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra closes out Robert Spano’s inaugural season with the FWSO with Haydn's monumental Creation, a dramatic oratorio for vocal ...