Prelude Events

BACH BEFORE BACH: PRELUDE EVENTS

BACH AT THE DRAKE: FROM REGAL TO RUSTIC
Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 7:30 pm
The Drake Theater, Amherst
Tickets available online or at the door

• J.S. Bach: Trio Sonata from A Musical Offering, BWV 1079
• J.S. Bach: “Peasant” Cantata, BWV 212
  Corrine Byrne, soprano (UMass alumna and recent Grammy nominee);
  David Thomas Mather, baritone; Noah Horn conductor

HINDEMITH: LUDUS TONALIS
Friday, April 11, 5:00 pm
Bezanson Recital Hall, UMass Amherst
Free Admission

• Hindemith’s response to J.S. Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier
  Philip Solomonick, piano 

BACH FESTIVAL ALUMNI CONCERT
Sunday, April 13, 3:00 pm
Grace Episcopal Church, Amherst
Free Admission

• J.S. Bach: Mass in G Minor, BWV 235
• J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E Flat Major, BWV 552
• Dieterich Buxtehude: Trio Sonata in A Minor
• J.S. Bach: “Flößt mein Heiland, flößt dein Namen” from Christmas Oratorio, Part IV
• J.S. Bach: Motet “Ich lasse dich nicht,” BWV 1164
  Lindsay Pope, conductor; Noah Horn, organist
  UMass alumni

THE LISTENING ROOM: RE-IMAGINING THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS
Tuesday, April 22, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Bezanson Recital Hall, UMass Amherst
Free Admission

• “Re-imagining the Goldberg Variations”
  Professor Erinn E. Knyt, host

Additional Prelude Concerts:

BACH IN BEZANSON
Thursday, March 27, 7:00 pm
Bezanson Recital Hall, UMass Amherst
Free admission

• UMass violin students perform the complete Six Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin
  Elizabeth Chang, faculty coordinator

Saturday, April 5, 7:30 pm
Bezanson Recital Hall, UMass Amherst
Free admission

• UMass viola and cello students perform Bach Cello Suites nos. 2, 3, 4 & 6
  Hyobi Sim, faculty coordinator

BACH IN THE SUBWAYS
Since 2015, local western Massachusetts musicians, professionals and students alike, have participated in the international Bach in the Subways (BitS) event.

• March 26, 10 AM – Amherst Books
• March 29, 1:30 PM – Stamell Strings
• March 29, 2:30 PM – Black Sheep
• March 29, 4:00 PM – Amherst Historical Society