At a time when lower Manhattan’s residential population is growing and visitors are coming in droves, Trinity Wall Street is adding two unique new services to its liturgical calendar at St. Paul’s Chapel. Compline will be a regular offering on Sunday evenings and Bach at One will be a Monday afternoon service featuring cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach. Both highlight the role of sacred music in worship. A cantata is a vocal composition of a text – often sacred – sung to instrumental accompaniment. Bach, a devout Lutheran, composed 200 cantatas using both sacred and secular texts. A number of those cantatas are heard in churches around the world every Sunday, but through Bach at One, visitors will be able to hear all 200 in a cycle over the next five years.
Bach in New York
What a concert! They were superb – excellent singing, crisp diction, outstanding orchestra.
They are putting on a series called Bach @ One with plans to sing all 200 cantatas over the next five years. Here is how they announced it on their website:
The program was very well done as well – look here.
If you are in NYC, I encourage you to check it out. You won’t be disappointed.
Peter J. Durow says