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Since 1933, Duke University Chapel has welcomed the holiday season with the sublime music of Messiah. From the haunting strains of “The people that walked in darkness” to the exuberant triumph of “Hallelujah” and “Worthy is the Lamb,” George Frideric Handel’s masterwork weaves a musical tapestry that recounts the story of Christ’s life, from birth
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The cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach are a form of musical exegesis, or preaching through music. Written to be performed in worship, Bach’s cantatas artfully set scripture texts, hymn stanzas, prose, and poetry to various musical forms-arias, recitatives, choruses-to create a “sermon in sound.” To that end, the cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (“Savior
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“Like his better-known contemporaries John Scofield & Bill Frisell, Sawyer was weaned on the Beatles, the blues & ‘Bird’. You can hear it in everything he plays, a new kind of guitarspeak comprised of pop, improv and sounds never before heard. It is a language Sawyer uses with authority.” – Joe Vanderford Scott Sawyer displays his musical diversity like a
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The UVA Department of Music is pleased to present Baroque and Beyond – A Weber Guest event. This performance will take place on November 3rd, 2024 at 3:30 PM in Old Cabell Hall on the UVA Grounds. This event is free to attend and open to the public. This concert is supported by the Gertrude
Baroque & Beyond, together with the University of Virginia, assemble a 10-piece band to revel in Italian string playing and its influences abroad. Including works by Antonio Stradella, Tomaso Albinoni, Maria Margherita Grimani, Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Muffat, Michel Corrette, and J.C.F. Bach Stradella D MajorCamilla de Rossi, Sacrafice of Abraham overture (1708) G MajorAlbinoni op.