Prior to the service this afternoon, we are pleased to welcome Bach Scholar and good friend of Bach Vespers, MICHAEL MARISSEN, Professor of Music at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, for a "Pre-Vespers Talk" on this evening's Bach work. 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.
The Talk is at 3:45 p.m. Please enter at the side church door at the corner of 65th Street and Central Park West.
