Winter Joys: Handel & Bach

5603 North Charles Street,Baltimore MD 21210

02 January, 2022

Description

Keep the Holidays Alive with a Handel Chandos Anthem & selections from Bach’s Cantatas 32 & 140. We invite you to leave the cozy comfort of your homes for an uplifting program of Baroque comforts selected to warm your heart, including Handel’s Chandos Anthem: Oh Be Joyful in the Lord, from Psalm 100 and sections from Bach’s Cantata 32: Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen (Dearest Jesus, my desire). The concert concludes with arias from Bach’s most celebrated and eternal song, Cantata 140: Wachet Auf (Sleepers Awake! A Voice is Calling). Full Program: Handel’s Chandos Anthem: O Be Joyful in the Lord, HWV 246Selections from Bach’s Cantata 32: Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen (Dearest Jesus, my desire)Selections from Bach’s Cantata 140: Wachet Auf (Sleeper’s Awake!)Featured Soloists: Ellie Yeonjung Kim, SopranoNathan Hawsey, TenorAaron Thacker, Bass Bach In Baltimore hosts First Sunday Concerts, with vocal and instrumental soloists and guest youth choral groups, affordably to the public on the First Sunday of Every Month, October - June. Bach In Baltimore believes that music can be used to bring our community closer together and to help solve social problems. Our mission is to continue to perform the choral and orchestral works of Johann Sebastian Bach (and his contemporaries) while educating youth and the concert-going public about the musical language of Bach and the texts he chose to set to music. Concerts are given with these goals in mind. They are performed as intended by Bach in the original 18th century setting, with professional orchestral accompaniment, accomplished Baroque soloists, and choir. Our goal is to grow and diversify our audience, specifically, to engage more of our neighbors in Baltimore City, and continue our Student Voice Exchange and other educational commitments to Baltimore Youth.