Early Music New York | Bach Cousins - Luminous Dynasty | May 2

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

45th ANNIVERSARY SEASON – 2019-2020

BACH COUSINS

Luminous Dynasty

 

EARLY MUSIC NEW YORK ~ FREDERICK RENZ, Director

 

Saturday, May 2 at 7:30 PM

First Church of Christ, Scientist • 77 Central Park West, at 68th Street, NYC

 

~ Baroque Brio with the Bach Family ~

 

Early Music New York (EM/NY) will conclude its “astronomical” 45th anniversary season with “Bach Cousins: Luminous Dynasty,” a program of baroque works by several outstanding predecessors and contemporaries of the family’s most famous scion, Johann Sebastian, who also will be represented. The performance will take place Saturday, May 2 at 7:30 PM at the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Manhattan’s Lincoln Square neighborhood.

 

“Johann Sebastian Bach occupies such an exalted place in the music pantheon that it is possible to forget he wasn’t just a sui generis phenomenon,” states Frederick Renz, Director of EM/NY. “J.S. built upon the foundations of four generations of Bachs, many fine musicians and composers. He acknowledged their legacy, meticulously copying their works and performing them with his own Collegium Musicum in Leipzig. Early Music New York’s audience will hear music admired by J.S. Bach himself.”

 

Concert Information

 

BACH COUSINS

Luminous Dynasty

 

Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 7:30 pm

First Church of Christ, Scientist, 77 Central Park West, at 68^th Street, NYC

 

Program to include

 

Heinrich Bach (1615 – 1692)

Sonata in F major (before 1662)

 

Johann Michael Bach (1648 – 1694)

Sonata in G minor

 

Johann Christoph Bach (1642/3 – 1703)

Lamento – Ach, dass ich Wassers gnug hätte

 

Johann Ludwig Bach (1677 – 1731)

Ouverture in G major (1715)

 

Johann Bernhard Bach (1676 – 1749)

Ouverture No. 3 in E minor

 

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)

Cantata No. 54, Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54 (1741)

 

 (program subject to change)

 

 

 

Early Music New York ~ Frederick Renz, Director

with

Daniel Moody, Countertenor

 

 

~ TICKETS ~

$40.00 reserved seats

$20.00 student (w/valid ID, available at door, day of)

 

Tickets available by phone (212-280-0330), on-line (www.EarlyMusicNY.org)

and at the door, half an hour prior to performance.

Group discounts available by telephone.  All major credit cards accepted.

 

About the Artists

 

 

FREDERICK RENZ – DIRECTOR

Frederick Renz, Founder/Director of the Early Music Foundation, is internationally acclaimed for his work as a conductor, producer, director, performer and scholar, presenting music and music drama from the eleventh through the eighteenth centuries. He has received commissions from the Spoleto Festival, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, individual grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and been awarded a doctorate honoris causa by the State University of New York. 2020 marks his 50th year as a member of the New York early music community. Detailed bio available on request

 

DANIEL MOODY – COUNTERTENOR

 

Countertenor Daniel Moody has appeared in the title role of Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Oberon in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Nerone in L’incoronazione di Poppea with Cincinnati Opera. He has performed with Atlanta Symphony, Les Violons du Roy, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (duet program with Anne Sofie von Otter), his Carnegie Hall debut with Oratorio Society of New York, and the off-Broadway production of Hans Christian Andersen. He gave the world premiere of Hannah Lash’s opera, Desire. Mr. Moody has won awards from the Metropolitan National Council, George London Competition, and Sullivan Foundation, and is a graduate of Peabody and Yale.

 

EARLY MUSIC NEW YORK / EARLY MUSIC FOUNDATION

 

Celebrating its forty-fifth season, Early Music New York reaps international acclaim for vibrant and provocative performances of historically informed repertoire from the medieval through the classical eras.

 

Early Music Foundation (EMF), a not-for-profit organization founded in 1974, is Artist-in-Residence at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City.  Under the leadership of Frederick Renz, EMF’s mission is to foster public understanding and appreciation of music and music drama from the eleventh through the eighteenth centuries.  EMF presents the historical performance ensemble and orchestra  EARLY MUSIC NEW YORK – FREDERICK RENZ, DIRECTOR; operates the recording label Ex cathedra Records; and administers a service to the field project, “New York Early Music Central” (NYEMC), sponsoring/managing city-wide festivals serving the NYC historically-informed artist community.

 

 

ABOUT THE VENUE

 

The First Church of Christ, Scientist is located in the heart of the Lincoln Square neighborhood, within the landmark Central Park West Historic District. Designed by Frederick R. Comstock, the copper-domed Beaux-Arts-style edifice dates from the turn of the 20^th century, when it was built and originally dedicated as the Second Church of Christ, Scientist.

 

About its square-proportioned auditorium, NYC-Arts says, “With raked seating, First Church of Christ, Scientist’s ambient and acoustical clarity is an ideal venue for chamber and orchestra performance.”

 

 

 

 

For additional information, photos/graphic images and interview requests, contact:

Daniel Guss, Public Relations:

pr@EarlyMusicNY.org, phone 212-749-6600

Website: www.EarlyMusicNY.org

 

 

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