The Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra present a weekly service featuring the music of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas, accompanied by prayers and readings.
Over the next five years, all of Bach's more than 200 cantatas will be heard inside historic St. Paul’s Chapel. Bach's cycles of vocal-instrumental cantatas on the themes of the seasonal sacred calendar comprise a vast body of peerless music. Conducted by Trinity’s director of music and the arts, Julian Wachner, each Bach at One installment will feature the Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra.
Cantatas will be heard alongside motets by Heinrich Schütz, one of Bach's most prestigious and influential predecessors. The service will also be enhanced by the reading of poetry during each of two interludes; acknowledged, important poets from New York City will read original verse at that time. Poet for today's service is Anna Rabinowitz.
Bach at One takes place each Monday at 1 p.m. at St. Paul's Chapel (Broadway and Fulton Street).