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May 2018
Bach Outdoors!
The Festival opens outside on Lehigh University’s beautiful campus with unique and upbeat performances by our principal violist Paul Miller and friends. They will play electric violin along with other “modern” instruments to offer original arrangements of some of Bach’s most beloved masterpieces.
Find out more »Distinguished Scholar Lecture — Dr. Robin A. Leaver
Greg Funfgeld has invited Robin Leaver to give this lecture to celebrate the 120th birthday of The Choir and to honor his esteemed colleague. Dr. Leaver has been The Bach Choir’s eminent concert program annotator throughout Funfgeld’s tenure of 35 years. He is Visiting Professor, Yale University, and Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland; and Emeritus Professor, Westminster Choir College of Rider University.
Find out more »Bach at 4
The centerpiece of this concert is Bach’s Cantata 106, Gottes Zeit is die allerbeste Zeit (God’s time is the very best time). This gem of a cantata scored for recorders, gambas, and basso continuo was written when Bach was in his early twenties and yet as Nicholas Kenyon wrote “he never surpassed the interior drama of this concentrated piece” and as Jim Gaines wrote of this masterpiece “All of Bach begins here.”
Find out more »Chamber Music in the Saal: SOLD OUT
Charlotte Mattax Moersch launched our Chamber Music in the Saal series in 1997 with a performance of Bach’s epic Goldberg Variations, one of the most ambitious works ever written for the harpsichord. She is delighted to revisit this set of variations, unmatched in their scope and ingenuity, for our 120th birthday.
Find out more »Dinner Discussion: SOLD OUT!
Larry Lipkis, Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence at Moravian College.
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