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February 2024
Bach at Noon | February 13
For Your Safety Amid Inclement Weather: Join us virtually to this special Bach at Noon concert! The live-stream will begin at 11:30 am and the concert will start at 12:10 pm. CLICK HERE TO JOIN US VIRTUALLY The Bach Choir of Bethlehem invites you to an exclusive premiere performance of an original composition by the Emmy Award-winning composer, Jasmine Arielle Barnes, as part of our February Bach at Noon concert. This free concert provides the community with an exceptional opportunity…
Find out more »The Greg Funfgeld Family Concert: Dancing with Bach
In collaboration with the dance departments of Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts and Muhlenberg College. Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes + Bach First Orchestral Suite Featuring Greg Funfgeld and Eugene Albulescu playing piano 4 hands.
Find out more »March 2024
Bach at Noon | March 12
FREE ADMISSION! We're excited for this Bach at Noon concert offering a preview of The Bach Choir of Bethlehem's Spring Concert on March 17 and the CD release of Mendelssohn's edition of Bach's St. Matthew Passion available on March 22. We'll start with the audience joining us in singing Bach’s O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden and close with two cantatas from Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri, with two more to come at the Spring Concert. Soloists: Jessica Beebe – soprano…
Find out more »Spring Concert : Bach Inspired
Join us for a captivating Spring Concert as we delve into the timeless brilliance of Bach’s festive cantata Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80, which we believe was first heard in the U.S. in Bethlehem at Central Moravian Church in 1823 and which will echo across two centuries. And experience a glimpse of our upcoming European Tour as we unveil select musical gems we will take with us to prestigious venues in Germany and Austria.
Find out more »April 2024
Bach at Noon | April 9
Join us in Bethlehem for Bach at Noon this April at Central Moravian Church. On April 9th, 2024, performed by members of The Bach Choir and Bach Festival Orchestra, under the baton of Artistic Director and Conductor, Christopher Jackson. This cconcert will feature guest soloists Sylvia Lieth, mezzo-soprano, and Gene Stenger, tenor. Experience a delightful repertoire including Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto for Strings in A Major, RV 158, Jan Dismas Zelenka's Hipocondrie à 7 Concertanti, ZWV 187, and Johann Sebastian Bach's…
Find out more »The Bel Canto Youth Chorus Spring Concert
Don't miss this celebration of youthful spirit through music! Join us for an afternoon of musical magic! Featuring music from Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes and talented solo musicians from the Youth Chorale, including some auditioning for the Zimmerman's Coffee House Program at the 116th Bach Festival. We welcome special guests Vera Voce treble choir from Parkland High School.
Find out more »May 2024
116th Bethlehem Bach Festival
Welcome to our 116th Bethlehem Bach Festival! The Bach Choir is honored to once again welcome you to the community that comes together each year for Festival, to celebrate the glorious music of J.S. Bach and other composers and the connections we make hearing it. You belong here as we share this wondrous Festival together. May 10–11 & May 17–18, 2024 • Lehigh University & sites in Historic & Southside Bethlehem
Find out more »116th Bethlehem Bach Festival – Bach Outdoors!
Begin your Bach Festival experience with the lively and engaging music at this free concert, welcoming audiences of all ages. We herald the beginning of an exciting weekend of music-making and shared community together outside in beautiful downtown Bethlehem! Rain location: The Old Chapel, 412 Heckewelder Place, behind the Moravian Museum on Church Street.
Find out more »The Barnette Distinguished Scholar Lecture – Dr. Michael Marissen
Join us for this free lecture and spend an hour in the company of one of the great Bach scholars of our time. He will discuss how Bach’s church cantatas and secular chamber music sometimes exalt instruments of low degree (such as the recorder) and put down from their seats mighty instruments (such as the violin). Dr. Marissen is the Daniel Underhill Professor Emeritus of Music at Swarthmore College.
Find out more »Bach at 4
Join The Choir, soloists, and Festival Artist-in-Residence recorder virtuoso Vincent Lauzer in an intimate celebration of Bach’s instrumental and vocal music in the peerless acoustics of the Incarnation of Our Lord Church. Programming includes the strange and remarkable early cantata Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150, and the confident, yet profoundly intimate funeral motet Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229.
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