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2021-2022 Season at a GlanceBach at NoonChristmas ConcertsFamily ConcertsSpring ConcertsGala Event & Fundraiser114th Bethlehem Bach Festival2021-2022 Season At-A-Glance:
“BACH IS BACK and, as promised more than a year ago, WE WILL SING AGAIN!
We are singing again!…and what joy and blessing there is in that!”
~ Greg Funfgeld, Artistic Director and Conductor
Download a ticket order form HERE! View our Season Brochure online HERE!
Bach at Noon | Second Tuesdays 12:10 – 1pm Central Moravian Church, Historic Downtown Bethlehem, PA
2021 September 14* | October 12 | November 9*
2022 January 11 | February 8 | March 8 | April 12
June 14* | July 12 | August 9 (St. John’s Lutheran Church, Allentown)
* In addition to the in-person concerts, these Bach at Noon concerts will be live-streamed.
Christmas Concerts | Bach’s Christmas Oratorios Parts 1, 2, & 3
Saturday December 11, 2021 at 8pm | First Presbyterian Church of Allentown
Sunday, December 12, 2021 at 4pm* | First Presbyterian Church of Bethlehem
* In addition to the in-person performance, the Christmas Concert from Bethlehem
will be live-streamed.
Greg Funfgeld Family Concert | Dancing with Bach
Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 3pm | Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University
Spring Concert | Durufle Requiem / Handel Messiah Part Two
Sunday, March 27, 2022 at 4pm | First Presbyterian Church of Bethlehem
SPRING GALA | Yo-Yo Ma & Kathryn Stott
A very special Gala concert from beloved cellist Yo-Yo Ma and world-renowned pianist Kathryn Stott | On sale November, 2021
Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 8pm | Central Moravian Church, Bethlehem, PA
114th Bethlehem Bach Festival
May 13-14 & May 20-21*, 2022 | Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
* In addition to the in-person performance, we will Live-Stream the Mass in B Minor on Saturday, May 21, 2022. Greg’s final Festival as Artistic Director and Conductor closes with this performance of the Mass.
Bach at Noon
Initiated in 2005, this free concert series, designed as a community and economic development initiative, educates new audiences about Bach’s music. It includes seven performances at Central Moravian Church in Bethlehem and three summer concerts at St. John’s Lutheran Church in downtown Allentown. Greg Funfgeld introduces each program with an engaging, informal talk. Bach at Noon has been a phenomenal success attracting audiences of all ages totaling more than 8,000 a year. A frequent response from audience members is, “This is such a blessing!”
Bach at Noon concerts will are broadcast by WWFM, the Classical Network. This award-winning classical music station is listener supported, and has offered a number of Bach Choir concerts in previous seasons. We’re delighted that they’ll be sharing our joyous Bach at Noon concerts with listeners near and far each month!
2021 and 2022 Broadcast dates to come – Tune in to listen to WWFM on any of the broadcast stations listed on the chart.
PLEASE NOTE:
With abundant caution, we are following our COVID-19 protocol for our Summer 2021 Bach at Noon concert series:
Our Allentown “Bach at Noon | Bach Together” virtual concerts will be conducted by Greg Funfgeld, leading a small group of musicians, recorded with no audience present.
Each concert will be posted on You Tube, facebook and on each “Bach at Noon” calendar event here on our website.
On concert days, go to our event on this website, our YOU TUBE channel or our facebook page to view the concert. All from the comfort of your own home! (You can also watch anytime you like once the concert has premiered.)
We return to Bach at Noon before a live audience in September. Join us at Central Moravian Church in historic downtown Bethlehem on September 14.
Christmas Concerts
The Choir’s long tradition of offering Christmas music concerts began with the first complete performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in the United States in 1901. Since then, the Choir has continued to bring Bach’s music, along with the sacred Christmas music of other composers, including more contemporary pieces, to the community with its annual December concerts in Allentown and Bethlehem.
Family Concerts
Noah’s Flood (Noyes Fludde) masks, created by the students who played our Ark of animals in our 2020 Greg Funfgeld Family Concert.
Initiated in 2000, the annual Greg Funfgeld Family Concerts are imaginative, collaborative, interactive concerts that feature professional and student artists in the fields of music, dance, theater, visual arts, and poetry, performing with the full Bach Choir and Bach Festival Orchestra.
For many parents, the Greg Funfgeld Family Concert offers the perfect opportunity to introduce their children to Bach, classical music and a live performance.
Spring Concerts
Welcoming the spring and celebrating the sacred Easter season with the music of J.S. Bach has been a long been a tradition of The Bach Choir of Bethlehem. Centerpieces of these performances over the years have included Bach’s Jesu, meine Freude and The Passion According to Saint John, along with the works of more contemporary composers including Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten and Morten Lauridsen.
Gala Event & Fundraiser
Building on the successful presentation of such high profile artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Dave Brubeck, Emma Kirkby, Tiempo Libre, Hilary Hahn, the Swingle Singers, Eliot Fisk, the American Boychoir, Bach Collegium Japan, Roomful of Teeth, Thomanerchor, Peter Serkin and Theatre of Early Music, the annual Gala is a fundraiser and a fun musical and social event featuring Bach connections in different genres with guest artists at the top of their field.
114th Bethlehem Bach Festival
Our largest event of the year takes place in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on the campus of Lehigh University and on the historic grounds of the Moravian community. The Festival is a glorious tradition treasured by thousands of people from throughout the United States and beyond since the American premiere of Bach’s monumental Mass at the first Bethlehem Bach Festival in 1900. The Festival is presented each year over two weekends in May, and includes guest artists-in-residence, featured young musicians, lectures and chorale sings with the audience.
