Bach Tage

Mount Olive’s annual Bach Tage is a unique opportunity to spend a weekend immersed in a J. S. Bach cantata, preparing and rehearsing  from chorus to chorale, then performing Bach’s glorious music during Evening Prayer on Sunday.

Participants work with outstanding professional vocal soloists and instrumentalists to acquire new skills for rehearsing and performing the music of Bach; gain insights into music, theology, and liturgical praxis; and share the joy of singing some of the greatest music of all time.

Bach Tage once again features conductor Kathy Saltzman Romey, this year leading orchestra and chorus in a study and performance of Bach’s ebullient Pentecost cantata Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten, vespers entrance music by Johann Pachelbel, and other works by Michael Praetorius and Johann Heinrich Schein.

New this year, The Mirandola Ensemble joins us in residency for the weekend. This Minneapolis-based professional choral ensemble, dedicated to promoting the highest standards of choral music and the aesthetics of the Renaissance, will lead music at Saturday’s Vigil of Pentecost and Sunday’s Evening Prayer.

PWV 1401, Deus in adjutorium intende
BWV 411, Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten