Vespers with Period Instruments and Organ Recital, Mt. Washington

The Athenaeum Chorale and Mount St. Mary’s Seminary Latin Schola together present a Solemn Vespers, the musical centerpiece of which is Johann Sebastian Bach’s radiant Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243. This masterpiece will be accompanied by an orchestra of specialists from across North America playing on eighteenth-century instruments, allowing visitors and seminarians a rare opportunity to encounter the sound world Bach himself knew. The work itself unfolds as a series of musical meditations, with each movement illuminating a verse of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s great canticle of praise: “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord.”

Organ Recital • 6:30 p.m.
Daniel Grotz, St. Getrude Parish, Madeira

Solemn Vespers • 7 p.m.
Athenaeum Chorale
Mount St. Mary’s Latin Schola
Bach’s Magnificat in D Major

Soloists
Olivia Knutsen, Soprano I
Natalie Romanick, Soprano II
Rachael Bell, Mezzo Soprano
Samuel Krausz, Tenor
Michael Young, Baritone

Admission is free and open to the public.