Bach Around the Clock 2025
March 22, 2025
About the Concert
A free community-wide marathon celebration of the music and majesty of Johann Sebastian Bach. From sunup to sundown, you’ll hear superb string soloists, renowned organists, guitarists, pianists, choirs, & brilliant ensembles, performing the inspiring and moving works of “the immortal god of harmony.“
Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church- 2807 N Augusta St, Staunton
Program
9:00 AM - Preludio
The day begins with an hour of Bach's "Beginnings" - Preludes and other opening movements for both solo strings and keyboard
10:00 AM - Bach: Keyboard Journeys
From the intimate clavichord to the mighty King of Instruments, Benjamin K. Roe examines the many keyboard instruments explored, imagined, and utilized by JSB
11:00 AM - The Staunton Thursday Morning Music Club
Members of Staunton's Thursday Morning Music Club offer a sampling of delights for voice, flute, and recorder.
12:00 PM - The Bach Suites, Pt. 1
Renowned Heifetz Institute faculty cellist and renowned Bach interpreter Colin Carr explores the world of the Bach Suites for Cello.
12:45 PM - Laments & Redemption: A Journey Through Bach's Sacred Music
Kaitlyn Townsend & Sarah Hamilton offer a program of sacred arias and duets, tracing a soul’s journey from sorrow to hope through the powerful beauty of his vocal music.
1:30 PM - Preludes, Fugues, and Adagios
Heifetz Institute Artistic Director and violinist Nicholas Kitchen is joined by his father-keyboard veteran Joseph Kitchen
2:30 PM - Violin & Organ
Heifetz Ensemble in Residence violinist JiHyun Baik joins forces with special guest organist Nicole Keller to explore the unusual sonorities of the combined instruments.
3:00 PM - Charlottesville AGO
Music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his son Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach played by members of the Charlottesville Chapter of the American Guild of Organists
4:00 PM - Coffee & Cake Break!
4:15 PM - Sinfonias and a Concerto
Lawrence Quinnett explores the marvelously inventive Sinfonias, and then is joined for a romp through Bach's infectious Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1053
5:30 PM - The Bach Cello Suites, Pt. 2
Renowned Heifetz Institute faculty cellist and renowned Bach interpreter Colin Carr explores the world of the Bach Suites for Cello
6:00 PM - Ciaconna
Celebrated JMU and Heifetz Institute violinist Wanchi plays Bach's riveting Ciaconna in the glorious acoustics of Christ Lutheran Church
6:15 PM – Celebrating the Taylor & Boody Op. 24
Taylor & Boody co-founder John Boody offers a 30th-anniversary builders-eye-view of CLC’s Op. 24 organ, installed by the renowned Staunton-based firm in 1994.
6:30 PM – Featured Guest Organ Recital: Nicole Keller
2025 Christ Lutheran Church Endowed Organist
7:45 PM – Horn of Plenty
Four part Chorales by JSB, played by four heavenly horns!
8:00 PM – Grand Finale: The Cantata Hour
Music Director Paul Weber once again leads the combined forces of the Staunton Bach Orchestra, the BATC Chamber Choir, soloists, and guest artists in an inspiring final hour
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