The Lutheran Vespers: Reimagined

Join the Bach Akademie Charlotte Choir on an a cappella musical journey that begins in Johann Sebastian Bach’s Leipzig music library and ends in the present day via West Africa.

Bach Akademie Charlotte Choir
Nicolas Haigh, conducting

Friday, October 25 • 7:30 pm
The Cathedral of All Souls
9 Swan Street, Asheville, NC 28803

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Saturday, October 26 • 7:30 pm
Series Subscription Concert
Myers Park Presbyterian Church
2501 Oxford Place, Charlotte, NC 28207

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Sunday, October 27 • 3:00 pm
Community Concert
Davidson College Presbyterian Church
100 N. Main Street, Davidson, NC 28036

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ASHEVILLE AND CHARLOTTE:
Premium Preferred Seating: $52.50   |   General Admission: $36.75  
30&Under (ages 18–30): $15.00   |   Under 18: Free

DAVIDSON:
All Ages General Admission: Free

Our program opens with virtuosic choral works that the great Thomaskantor taught his students in Leipzig before exploring contemporary responses to similar texts. Framed by the structure of a Lutheran service of Vespers, this concert will also include Bach Akademie Charlotte’s first performances of works by living composers. A not-to-be-missed highlight will be the first performance of Giles Swayne’s Magnificat I in the Southeast. Inspired by a field trip he took to southern Senegal and Gambia, Swayne incorporated the opening call of the Senegalese ploughing song O Lulum into the beginning of his composition. Brimming with unbridled fertility, rhythmic verve, and percussive drive, Swayne’s work shattered expectations of what ‘church music’ could be.

Adam GUMPELZHAIMER Deus in adiutorium
Héloïse WERNER O Sapientia
Heinrich SCHÜTZ Confitemini Domino
Roderick WILLIAMS O Adonai, et Dux domus Israel
Giovanni Pierluigi da PALESTRINA Sicut cervus – Sitivit Anima mea
Francesco CROATTI Duo Seraphim

John TAVENER Mother of God, Here I stand
Giles SWAYNE Magnificat I
Joanna MARSH Evening Prayer
John RUTTER Hymn to the Creator of Light
Michael PRAETORIUS Benedicam Dominum

Bach Akademie Charlotte Choir

SOPRANO
Margaret Carpenter Haigh
Paulina Francisco
Madeline Healey
Arwen Myers

ALTO
Laura Atkinson
Jay Carter
Elisa Sutherland

TENOR
Haitham Haidar
Gene Stenger
Steven Wilson

BASS
Matt Cramer
Edmund Milly
Constantine Novotny
Jared Swope