Music: Festival finale is Haydn’s ‘Creation’ masterpiece

A performance of Joseph Haydn’s “The Creation” at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 19, at Western Washington University’s Performing Arts Center, is the final concert in the 2015 Bellingham Festival of Music. The work will be performed by the Festival Orchestra, Festival Chorus, and guest soloists Morris Robinson, Ilana Davidson, John Tibbetts, Maria Valdes and Richard Clement, under the direction of Maestro Michael Palmer.