Saturday and Sunday talks will be with renowned Bach Scholar and good friend of Bach Vespers, MICHAEL MARISSEN, Professor of Music at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Social and Religious Designs of J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos (Princeton); Lutheranism, Anti-Judaism, and Bach's St. John Passion (Oxford); and essays on "Bach and anti-Judaism" in the Harvard Theological Review, Lutheran Quarterly, and the New York Times. His recent article, "Rejoicing against Judaism in Handel's Messiah," was published in the Journal of Musicology, and Oxford University Press has published his latest book, Bach's Oratorios - The Parallel German-English Texts, with Annotations. 

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