Bach Birthday Concert
Date and Time
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM EDT
Location
The historic Gloucester Meetinghouse, home of the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church, is located on the green at 50 Middle Street. A side entrance with an elevator for persons with disabilities is located at 10 Church Street. Parking is allowed on the green.
Fees/Admission
Tickets ($45 Preferred, $30 General & $10 Students, under 12 free) are available at the door and online at www.gloucestermeetinghouse.org
Description
Ah, coffee! … but how much would you be willing to give up for your daily cup? In Bach’s delightful Coffee Cantata, Dana Whiteside, Elise Groves, and Andrew Bearden Brown will find out how far a devoted coffee lover will go to maintain their habit! Also on this program of Bach’s secular music is his thrilling 5th Brandenburg Concerto, written for flute, strings, and featuring Sylvia Berry playing the sumptuous harpsichord solo! Between the Concerto and the Cantata, conductor and organist Andrew Sheranian will ascend into the choir loft and perform one of Bach’s greatest organ works, the Prelude and Fugue in B-minor on the magnificent 1893 Hutchings/Fisk pipe organ.
PERFORMERS
Andrea LeBlanc, flute
Keats Dieffenbach, violin
Adriane Post, violin
Joy Grimes, viola
Judah Coffman, cello
Pablo Kennedy, bass
Sylvia Berry, harpsichord
Elise Groves, soprano
Andrew Bearden Brown, tenor
Dana Whiteside, baritone
Andrew Sheranian, conductor and organist
