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The Lutheran Vespers: Reimagined

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

Bach Akademie Charlotte Choir
Nicolas Haigh, conducting

Friday, October 25 • 7:30 pm
First Presbyterian Church York SC
10 West Liberty Street, York, SC 29745

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

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

Enjoy 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 features Bach Akademie Charlotte’s first performances of works by living composers. A not-to-be-missed highlight is the Southeast premiere of British composer Giles Swayne’s Magnificat I. 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.

“Lutheran Vespers: Reimagined” is approximately 75 minutes, with no intermission.

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
*Kaylee Stanaland

ALTO
Laura Atkinson
Nicholas Garza
Elisa Sutherland
*Marley Owens

TENOR
Haitham Haidar
Gene Stenger
Steven Wilson
*James Amaker

BASS
Matt Cramer
Edmund Milly
Constantine Novotny
Jared Swope
*James Gragg

*Choral Scholar, Winthrop University
Jeremy Mims, DMA, Director of Choral Activities