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Selected live recordings from The Lutheran Church of The Incarnate Word , Rochester, N.Y.

 


 

2010-2011 Series Calendar

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Sunday, October 10, 2010, 7:00P.M.
A Gala Festival of Sacred Music: 30 Years of Music in the City
James E. Bobb, Richard Erickson, Michael Unger, organists
Elizabeth Phillps, soprano with baroque instrumentalists.    
A festival of hymns, organ and vocal music celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Music Series at Incarnate Word.  

Sunday, November 7, 2010, 7:00 P.M.
Vespers for All Saints' Sunday followed by Abendmusik Recital at 7:45P.M.
Jenny Välitalo, viola and baroque viola
Jenny Välitalo, originally from Sweden, is completing doctoral studies at the Eastman School of Music.
       
Sunday, December 12, 2010, 7:00 P.M.
Service of Advent Lessons and Carols
Our annual service of Advent Lessons and Carols featuring the choirs and soloists of Incarnate Word in
Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata 61 (Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland) with baroque instrumentalists.

Friday, December 24, 2010, 10:30P.M. (preceding Holy Communion at 11:00P.M.)    
Festive Christmas Eve Prelude
Settings of Gelobet Seist du, Jesu Christ for choir, soloists and organ by
Johann Hermann Schein, Matthias Weckmann, Helmut Walcha, and others.

Sunday, January 9, 2011, 7:00P.M.
A Medieval Epiphany Celebration
Readings, music and pageantry for the festival of Epiphany.

Sunday, February 13, 2011, 7:00P.M.
Vespers for Septuagesima Sunday followed by Abendmusik Recital at 7:45P.M.
Voices Chamber Choir; William Weinert, director

Sunday, March 13, 2011, 7:00 P.M.
Vespers for the First Sunday in Lent followed by Abendmusik Recital at 7:45 P.M.
Mathieu Langlois, baroque flute
Mathieu Langlois, originally from Canada and a graduate of the Royal Conservatorium in the Hague
(the Netherlands),  is currently completing doctoral studies at Cornell University in Ithaca.

Sunday, April 10, 2011, 7:00 P.M.  
Dieterich Buxtehude, Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75
The soloists and Senior Choir of Incarnate Word join with baroque instrumentalists
for this monumental cycle of seven cantatas, meditations of Jesus on the cross.

Sunday, April 17, 2011, 9:30A.M.
Palm Sunday Morning Worship Service
World Premiere of anthem for Senior and Youth Choirs by young composer J. Scott Brubacher,
commissioned by Incarnate Word in honor of the 30th anniversary of the Music Series.

Friday, April 22, 7:30 P.M.
Good Friday Tenebrae Service with Arias by Johann Sebastian Bach
The soloists and choir feature sacred arias and chorales by J.S. Bach

Saturday, April 23, 8:00P.M.
Easter Vigil
Historic liturgy moving from darkness to light, with music by Giovanni da Palestrina, Josef Rheinberger and others.

Sunday, May 8, 2011, 7:30P.M.
Vespers for the Season of Easter
Featuring Laudate Pueri, E19 by Johann Christian Bach, sung by Elizabeth Phillips, soprano and Pablo Bustos, tenor.
           
A special event for May...
An Evening with Jenny Lind and Friends
A celebration of 160 years since Jenny Lind's donation of the tower bell to the Rochester’s German Lutheran Church (now here at Incarnate Word).  The evening will feature a selection of Lind's favorite opera arias, along with popular tunes from nineteenth-century America (including music for Incarnate Word's nineteenth-century organ). 
The evening will include a festive reception.
Jennifer Gliere, soprano as Jenny Lind; Gerry Szymanski, local historian.


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