Ceremonies and Celebrations!

To celebrate David Babbitt’s twentieth year as artistic director of the Bach Choir, we invite you to a time when spectacle, majestic music and brilliant brass fanfares marked the most important ceremonies of life. This musical pageant features works by masters of polyphony from the Renaissance through the middle Baroque, including Heinrich Schütz, Michael Prætorius, Dietrich Buxtehude, Hans Leo Hassler, Johannes Ockeghem and others, presented in San Francisco’s grandest space for ceremony and celebration: Grace Cathedral! With our multiple choirs and the world-class SFBC Baroque Orchestra augmented with brass, bells and percussion, we bring this lavish musical spectacle to full expression in the magnificent cathedral acoustic for which it was originally conceived. Joining us will be soloists Jennifer Ellis, Ruth Rainero, Thomas Hart, and Daniel Hutchings.

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Professor Alexandra Amati-Camperi of the University of San Francisco Department of Music will present an entertaining and informative pre-concert lecture. It is open to all ticket holders at 6 pm.

For a preview of our music, listen to our radio advertisement (MP3 - 843 K - 1:26) for this concert.