Duke Chapel Bach Cantata Series Performance

Sunday, September 18 at 5:00 p.m. There is no charge for admission

Mallarmé HIP Musicians join the Duke Chapel Bach Choir led by Dr. Philip Cave in the glorious music of J.S. Bach performed on period instruments

Magnificat: Music of Celebration by Johann Sebastian Bach
J.S. Bach: Overture from the Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068
Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn (German Magnificat), BWV 10
Fuga sopra il Magnificat, BWV 733
Magnificat in D major, BWV 243

4:00 p.m. in the Divinity School’s Goodson Chapel, Chad Fothergill, interim Chapel organist, gives a pre-concert lecture on historical and musical contexts for the centrality of the Magnificat in the Vespers and Evensong traditions with particular emphasis on the Magnificat settings by Buxtehude and Bach.