Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity to Present Music of Heinrich Schütz for All Saints Sunday, 11/2

On Sunday, November 2nd, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity music director Donald Meineke direct the multiple Grammy-nominated Bach Choir and Players in a performance of Heinrich Schütz's Musikalische Exequien.

Commissioned in 1636 for the funeral of Heinrich Posthumus Reuss, Musikalische Exequien is the musical embodiment of Reuss' elaborate engraved copper coffin. Life and death, dying and rising, mourning and comfort are given powerful expression both musically and theologically in this work as we commemorate those who have died this past year, all saints known and unknown.

The program is presented in honor of longtime Bach Vespers supporter and board member L. Ronald French.

Called "New York's temple to Bach" by the New York Times and named "a cultural landmark" by the New York Landmarks Conservancy, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity was the first organization in the Western Hemisphere to present the cantatas and other works of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries within their intended sacred context. Bach Vespers offers performances open to all through a free-will offering every Sunday evening at 5:00 PM from October to May and features the renown Bach Choir and Players on period instruments within the most authentic setting to hear the music of Bach outside of Leipzig, Germany.

Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity are free, open the public, and made possible through freewill offering and the generous support of individual and corporate sponsors. Holy Trinity is located at the corner of Central Park West and 65th street in the Lincoln Center neighborhood.

For a complete listing of events this season, visit www.bachvespersnyc.org.