Bach
‘Bach, Good Friday and the St. John Passion’ — Darien Library Online Lecture byGil Harel
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In a one-hour online lecture Tuesday from 7 to 8 p.m., Dr. Gil Harel will explore the history of Bach’s Eastertide masterpiece, the Johannes-Passion of 1724. — an announcement from Darien Library
Johann Sebastian Bach never wrote an opera. Indeed, for a provincial composer of church music in Lutheran Germany, such a project was not in the cards. However, Bach showed himself to be a profoundly skilled musical storyteller, and there is perhaps no greater example of this than his towering Passion oratorios. In this work, the composer draws on his prodigious skills to convey the story of the Passion through music.