BACH'S LUNCH
Tuesdays, 12:15–1 p.m.
October 8, 2024–April 1, 2025
Main Church
Twice monthly on Tuesdays, the Bach’s Lunch series continues featuring the music of Johann Sebastian Bach as well as his predecessors, contemporaries, and successors. This year adds a lineup of organ recitals in addition to concerts of Bach Cantatas. Admission is free, but donations are appreciated. Livestream is available.
Full Calendar
VOCES8 CONCERT
Friday, October 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Touring globally, the group performs an extensive repertory both in its a cappella concerts and in collaborations with leading musicians, orchestras, conductors and soloists. Versatility and a celebration of diverse musical expression are central to the ensemble’s performance and education ethos which is shared both online and in person.
CHRISTMAS LESSONS & CAROLS
Thursday, December 19 at 7 p.m.
Sunday, December 22 at 4 p.m.
From the first radio broadcast from King’s College, Cambridge, services of Lessons and Carols have captivated listeners across the world for over one hundred years to mark the Christmas season. This year, 2024 marks the 65th anniversary of Church of the Incarnation’s Lessons and Carols tradition, and we welcome you to this year’s festive celebration music.
STAFF SINGER RECITAL
Friday, February 14, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
This concert features the staff singer core of Incarnation’s choir in concert. Usually seen and heard in liturgical context on Sunday mornings and Evensongs the staff singers will show off the secular side of their professional careers singing arias, art songs, and lighter fare in this Valentine’s Day program.
ST. THOMAS LEIPZIG CONCERT
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
With its almost 800-year history, St Thomas Boys Choir is the oldest cultural institution in Leipzig. Famous choirmasters such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Hermann Schein, Johannes Kuhnau and Johann Adam Hiller helped to make the choir world-famous. The heart of the choir's musical work is the sacred music in the services and motets in St Thomas' Church. Oratorios, passions and masses by Bach can also be heard regularly from the choir. They also perform sacred vocal music, madrigals and secular a cappella works from the Renaissance to the present day.
ST. JOHN PASSION
Palm Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 4 p.m.
In 1724 Johann Sebastian Bach set the Passion Story of Christ to music as told in the Gospel of John. He first performed it at Vespers on Good Friday, two days before Easter. Just over 300 years later, Incarnatus and orchestra will present this marvelous work on Palm Sunday afternoon to begin Holy Week at Church of the Incarnation.