Prelude Events

BACH BEFORE BACH: PRELUDE EVENTS

BACH AT THE DRAKE: 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’S LUDUS TONALIS
Friday, April 11, 5:00 pm
Bezanson Recital Hall, UMass Amherst
Free Admission

• Paul Hindemith: Ludus Tonalis
  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
• JS Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E Flat Major, BWV 552
• Dieterich Buxtehude: Trio Sonata in A Minor.
• JS 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: REIMAGINING THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS
Tuesday, April 22, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Bezanson Recital Hall, UMass Amherst
Free Admission

• “Reimagining 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

• Bach in Bezanson Violin Studio
  Elizabeth Chang, faculty coordinator

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

• Bach in Bezanson – Cello & Viola Studios
  Hyobi Sim, faculty coordinator

BACH IN THE SUBWAYS
Dates and venues TBA (end of March)

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