Franz Josef Haydn was born in 1732 in Rohrau, Austria, and died May 31, 1809, in Vienna, 200 years ago this year. The concert honoring Haydn will open with CCS singing the composer’s Missa Brevis, Hob. XXII:7, B-flat Major, St. Joannis de Deo, “Kleine Orgelmesse-Little Organ Mass.”

The combined choruses will then present Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s Heilig, and Haydn’s Mass, Hob. XXII:10, B-Flat Major – “Heiligmesse; Missa Sancti Bernardi Di Von Offida.”

The concert will close with Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Antiphon, a stirring, exuberant anthem whose text is a poem by George Herbert (“Let all the world in ev’ry corner sing/My God and King”).

Accompaniment will be provided by the organist Linda Sweetman-Waters.

Tickets are $20 and are available at the door, from CCS members, at Woodbury Drug, and Villarina’s Pasta in Southbury and Newtown.

For further information, call 206-7186, or visit the CCS website, CTChoralSociety.org.