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.
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