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Upper Valley Baroque will celebrate the 300th anniversary of the premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach’s masterpiece, St. John Passion, in Leipzig, Germany, in 1724. It proved so important to the composer ...

T.S. Eliot — not to mention Martin Luther and J.S. Bach — might have scolded the Dallas Bach Society for breeding passions out of season. Indeed, it seemed odd to schedule Bach’s St. John Passion, ...

With hymns and solos covering part of the Gospel of John, Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St. John Passion” is a big undertaking. “It’s a huge piece for chorus and orchestra and soloists,” Tom Remenschneider ...

Honoring the 300th anniversary of its premier on Good Friday, 1724, Abendmusik at First-Plymouth will present a rare, complete performance of J.S. Bach’s epic “St. John Passion” on Good Friday, 2024.

This Passion is visceral and violent, with ear-severing, beating, scourging, leg-breaking and – as John Eliot Gardiner hears it in that “overture” – nails being driven through hands to the cross.

From Salzburg to Dijon to Paris, a German choreographer adds striking dance to the sacred oratorio. By A.J. Goldmann The first thing we hear in Sasha Waltz’s production of the “St. John Passion” ...

Includes essays by Kenneth Slowik, James Weaver, Thomas G. MacCracken and Jaap Schröder. Booklet may accompany 6 sound cassettes also published by Smithsonian ...

Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Franz Welser-Mӧst will convene a panel of guest speakers to address the question “Is Bach’s St. John Passion anti-Semitic?”—a lingering claim that surrounds this ...