Healing Bach at The Church of St. Vincent Ferrer

Founder and Artistic Director Thomas Crawford conducts the American Classical Orchestra (ACO), New York City’s leading period instrument orchestra, in an all J.S. Bach concert at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer on Thursday, February 26 at 7:30 pm. Considered one of the most spectacular architectural buildings in Manhattan, the nave of the Church is the setting for a program of solo cantatas and instrumental works that demonstrate Bach’s ability to address the complete spectrum of human spiritual experience, from communal celebration to private contemplation. Artistic Director Thomas Crawford will give a brief pre-concert talk at 6:30 pm to illuminate the program, in which oboist Marc Schachman will discuss acquiring his amazing new instrument, interspersed with demonstrations. Healing Bach Thursday, February 26, at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, 869 Lexington Avenue Pre-concert talk at 6:30 PM (in the Church’s adjacent cafeteria, on Lexington Avenue) Concert at 7:30 PM American Classical Orchestra Thomas Crawford, conductor Nola Richardson, soprano Edward Vogel, baritone Sandra Miller, flauto traverso Marc Schachman, oboe Steven Marquardt, trumpet All J.S. Bach Program: Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067 Ich habe genug, BWV 82 Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51 The evening begins with the composer’s well-known, seven-movement dance Suite No. 2 in B Minor. Scored for solo transverse flute and strings, it is performed by ACO principal flutist Sandra Miller, a member of Juilliard’s Historical Performance department faculty. The cantata Ich habe genug ("I have enough") follows, written for the Feast of the Purification of Mary, and sung by baritone Edward Vogel, praised for his “appealing, midweight baritone” (The New York Times). The concert closes with Bach’s Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (“Exult God in every land”)—the only church cantata Bach scored for an extraordinarily demanding solo soprano and trumpet part—will be sung by soprano Nola Richardson, “a vocal superstar in the making" (Berkeley Daily Planet), with Baroque trumpet specialist, Steven Marquardt. Tickets, priced at $75, $55, and $35, are available at aconyc.org, or by calling ACO at (212) 362-2727, ext.4. American Classical Orchestra will next perform a chamber concert offering Schubert’s String Quintet in C Major at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall on April 8.