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May 2021
The Barnette Distinguished Scholar Lecture:
Peter Wollny
We are delighted to once again present this free lecture at the 2021 Festival. Coming to us from Leipzig, Germany, it's our distinct pleasure to welcome Peter Wollny, researcher at the Bach Archive Leipzig, and its director since 2014. “Bach in Challenging Circumstances – Some Thoughts on Life and Creativity” PETER WOLLNY (Ph.D. Harvard University), Distinguished Scholar Lecture, is the director of the Bach-Archiv Leipzig and professor of musicology at Leipzig University. Between 2016 and 2020 he was a…
Find out more »Ifor Jones Chamber Music Concert
This concert is supported in part by The Ifor Jones Memorial Chamber Music Concert fund established through a gift from Donald & Christine Wertman. The Bach Festival Orchestra and artist-in-residence The Paul Taylor Dance Company: Welcome! Join us as we open the performance with conversation between Greg Funfgeld, Artistic Director and Conductor of The Bach Choir and Michael Novak, Artistic Director of Paul Taylor Dance Company, as they discuss the Company and dance inspired by J.S. Bach's music. Brandenburgs Brandenburg Concertos #6…
Find out more »Bach at 4 | Chamber Music: Bach, Handel & Vivaldi
The Bach Choir is profoundly grateful for the newly established endowment fund for Bach at 4 from the estate of Rev. Arthur R. Lillicrapp. Program: We continue our Virtual Festival's concerts with chamber music by Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel and Antonio Vivaldi, including The Four Seasons, featuring Elizabeth Field, concertmaster, as the violin soloist, with one instrument to a part. ELIZABETH FIELD, Violin, has served as concert master of The Bach Choir of Bethlehem since 2001. She…
Find out more »“Blessings & Benediction” Concert
This concert honors and remembers the former conductors and members of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem and Bach festival orchestra since its beginning in 1898. their memory and legacy remain with us and continue to inspire us. The concert is supported in part by an endowment gift from Anthony R. Thompson and Vickie Ziegler Thompson. For our closing concert of the 2021 Bethlehem Bach Festival, members of The Choir and Bach Festival Orchestra joined by featured soloists, present a…
Find out more »December 2021
Christmas Oratorio Parts 1, 2 & 3 (Virtual | On-Demand Concert)
The Christmas Oratorio tells the story of the Nativity with some of Bach's most evocative music. In addition to the performance in front of our audience, the Bethlehem Christmas Concert will be live-streamed and available ON DEMAND, with tickets on sale through the end of December. A secure link will be sent to enable patrons to view the concert. Click here and choose VIEW NOW | VIRTUAL | ON DEMAND 2021 Christmas Oratorio 1, 2, 3 to buy an ON-DEMAND ticket. Print your…
Find out more »May 2022
Mass in B Minor (On-Demand Virtual concert)
Our treasured tradition, attended and warmly received by thousands of people from around the country and around the world since the American premiere of Bach’s monumental Mass at the very first Bethlehem Bach Festival in 1900. We LIVE-STREAMED this performance from our Festival; please enjoy the concert on-demand from wherever you are and be part of Greg Funfgeld's final Festival concert as our Artistic Director and Conductor. Ticket buyers have access to view the live-stream up to FIVE TIMES before…
Find out more »May 2023
Mass in B Minor – Live-streamed
Part 1 • 2:30pm Part 2 • 4:30pm Please note: The May 13 live-streamed performance will be available starting at 2 pm. ONLINE ticketing closes at 2:00pm on May 13. Join us from wherever you are as we live-stream this concert on Saturday, May 13. Dr. Christopher Jackson conducts The Choir, Bach Festival Orchestra and soloists at our 115th Bethlehem Bach Festival – his first as our Artistic Director and Conductor. The Mass is our treasured tradition, attended and warmly…
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