The 92nd Annual Bach Festival closes with J. S. Bach's complex and thought-provoking "St. John Passion." This intense and impactful masterwork highlights the extremes of human emotion and experience – betrayal, sacrifice and redemption. Featuring Margaret Carpenter Haigh as Evangelist, Tyler Duncan as Jesus, BWV: Cleveland's Bach Choir soloists, the BW Bach Choir and BW Festival Orchestra with ACRONYM. Dr. Dirk Garner, Artistic Director and Conductor. For more information, visit the Baldwin Wallace University website here.

In 1724, J.S. Bach premiered the incredible "St. John Passion." This 1724/2024 program features ACRONYM & BWV: Cleveland's Bach Choir performing music from this prolific year in Bach's life, including cantatas, as well as keyboard and orchestral suites. The program will also premiere a new work written for the occasion by BW Composer-in-Residence Dr. Clint Needham '04. For more information, visit the Baldwin Wallace University website here.

Baroque band ACRONYM performs Bach and a selection of the wild instrumental music of seventeenth-century Germany, which inspired him. For more information, visit the Baldwin Wallace University website here.

ACRONYM returns to the Gardner following their triumph last season with Bach’s Brandeburg concertos. In this concert, they will explore the instrumental music that laid the groundwork for Bach’s own works, climaxing in one of his remarkable trio sonatas, in a performance with world premiere choreography by Claudia Schreier.

Gawain and the Green Knight

A Medieval New Year's Legend

by Doug Balliett 

Performed by Karim Sulayman, Elisse Albian, Jesse Blumberg, Taylor Ward, Jonathan Woody, Elisa Sutherland, Raha Mirzadegan, members of ACRONYM, Ruckus, Theotokos, Makaris, and more

Gawain and the Green Knight: a Christmas story, a horror story, a romance, a paean to nature. All set at King Arthur’s court which huddles in its luxury on the borders of unforgiving wilderness and forces unknown. Gawain has agreed to have his head chopped off in a year’s time. But why? And can he live up to his promise, or his legendary perfection?

In its 6th consecutive performance, ring in the New Year with this bizarre medieval Christmas tale, filled with music, story, and song. Performed at the Camelot-esque performance space at St. Mary’s Church on the lower east side, the audience is immersed in King Arthur’s court, including music for the choral sing-alongs. Tenor Karim Sulayman takes the title role of Gawain, while other major roles are taken by New York luminaries Jonathan Woody, Jesse Blumberg, Taylor Ward, and more. Members of highly acclaimed ensembles ACRONYM, Ruckus, and AMOC come together to create a groovy continuo sound.

Tickets are pay-what-you-like. Doors open at 7:30, concert begins at 8. Running time is app. 2 hours plus a 20 minute intermission.

ACRONYM performs works by Capricornus, Cavalli, Scarlatti, and more in Central Park (Mid-Park, just south of the 72nd Street Transverse Road, or, north end of the mall). See ACRONYM in a free outdoor concert - no tickets are required. Seating is free and on a first come first served basis. The concert will be broadcasted live on WQXR for those unable to attend.

For more information, visit the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts website here.

ACRONYM takes the stage at Jordan Hall performing Queen Christina’s Playlist: Music of Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti, Cavalli, and others. Tickets for this event are available here.

The final day of the festival ends with a performance of Bach’s Mass in B Minor with performances from the BWV: Cleveland’s Bach Choir, BW Motet Choir, and more.

For more information - visit the Baldwin Wallace University website here.

ACRONYM performs two of Bach’s motets Komm, Jesu, komm (BWV 229) and Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden (BWV 230) and Britten’s Hymn to St. Cecilia with BWV: Cleveland’s Bach Choir .

For more information - visit the Baldwin Wallace University website here.

ACRONYM heads to the Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival performing two of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, a cantata, and more. For more information - visit the Baldwin Wallace University website here.

ACRONYM will be presented by the prestigious Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston at Calderwood Hall. For more information, visit the museum’s website here.

Join us for a concert at Warner Concert Hall.

Music of Valentini, Bertali, Schmelzer, Rosenmüller, and others. Join us for an afternoon of LIVE music. Ticket information for this event is available here.

For ticket information: https://lfcm.us/season-58-2022-23/

Due to COVID-19, this opera will be cancelled.

ACRONYM presents Ad Astra: Music of Valentini, Bertali, Schmeltzer, Biber, and more. Recorded at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy, New York.

Information about the complete festival can be found at the BEMF Festival Website

Performing Dreams of the Wounded Musketeer

https://www.sweetwatermusicfestival.ca/

Presenting What Bach Heard: Instrumental Music from Eisenach, Arnstadt, Weimar, Köthen, and Leipzig

https://www.mountainsidebaroque.org/acronym

Words and music by Doug Balliett

with

Karim Sulayman, Gawain
Molly Netter, Lady Bertilak
Taylor Ward, the Green Knight
Jesse Blumberg, King Arthur
Charlotte Mundy, Queen Guenevere
Jessica Niles, Morgan le Fay
Anicet Castel, Bishop Baldwin

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Music Before 1800 presents ACRONYM - Cantica Nova: Discoveries from Uppsala's Düben Manuscripts

Including a post-concert Q&A with the artists

Corpus Christi Church, 529 W. 121st Street, Manhattan

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Subscriptions go on sale May 15 and single tickets mid-July via Music Before 1800

Beckwith Recital Hall, inside the Cultural Arts Building

On the campus of UNC Wilmington

5270 Randall Dr

Wilmington, NC 28403

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