Location: Various locations
Open To: General Public
Admission: Free
Description:
April 1, 8:00 p.m. | J.S. Bach: St. John Passion (1725 version), Yale Schola Cantorum. Simon Carrington, conductor. St. Mary’s Church, 5 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven
Soloists:
- Derek Chester, the Evangelist
- Douglas Williams, Jesus
- Abigail Haynes and Mellissa Hughes,soprano
- Ian Howell and Sylvia Ryder, alto
- Steven Caldicott Wilson, tenor
- Joshua Copeland, bass
Pre-concert talk at 7:00pm:
“John Meets Matthew: The Second Version of Bach’s St. John Passion”, Markus Rathey, Assistant Professor of Music History, Yale University
15 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven Collection of Musical Instruments
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Sunday, April 2, 5:00 p.m. Marcel Dupré: Le chemin de la croix, op. 29. Martin Jean, organ. to be performed in the context of a traditional service of the Stations of the Cross Christ Church Episcopal, 84 Broadway, New Haven
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April 9, 3:00 p.m. J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion. Yale Camerata, Marguerite Brooks, conductor
Woolsey Hall, New Haven
Soloists:
- Thomas Cooley, the Evangelist
- David Arnold, Jesus
- Julia Blue Raspe, Soprano
- Judith Malafronte, Mezzo-Soprano
- Jeffrey Douma, Tenor
- Andrew Wentzel, Bass
with
- Edward Clark, Organ
- Stephen Rapp, Organ
- Steven Thomas, Cello
Pre-concert talk at 2:00pm: “Staffing the St. Matthew Passion Then and Now” Daniel Melamed, Associate Professor of Music and Director of Graduate Studies, Indiana University School of Music President’s Room, Second floor of Woolsey Hall
Adela Yarbro Collins, Yale University
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April 8, 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m Christ’s Passion in Context | A Symposium on Theological, Historical, and Artistic Considerations of the Passion
- “Passion Narratives in the Gospels” Adela Yarbro Collins, Yale University
- “Seeing with the Heart: The Passion of Christ in the Theology and Culture of Early Lutheranism” Guy Erwin, California Lutheran University
- “Sacred Blood: the Rehabilitation of Human Sacrifice” Jaime Lara, Yale University