Grace Cathedral
That Week With the Bachs
An iPad-in-hand staged presentation of a new chamber musical.
November 19 to 25, 1731: seven days in seven scenes during which seven members of the Bach family collaborate to create the seven movements of Cantata 140.
A pivotal moment occurred to this star-crossed family. Bach had composed hundreds of cantatas in the 1720s – cycles of them – then went on to other things. Abruptly, in November 1731, he urgently rushed to compose a new cantata. Why? That mystery leads to worlds of revelations about the family. The perfect way to tell the story of that amazing week is with a musical.
The company features Merola and Adler Fellow and San Francisco Opera regular Philip Skinner and Marnie Breckenridge as Mr. and Mrs. Bach, and the legendary Frederica von Stade as the Narrator.
Learn more about That Week with the Bachs in our Blog!
Tickets
Event Details
This event is part of Spacious Grace, and is presented by the Ghiberti Center for Culture. Spacious Grace is Grace Cathedral’s annual free-form arts festival when we remove the pews and fill the space with dance, music, and theatre. Ghiberti is a nondenominational nonprofit organization whose primary purpose is to enrich and inspire all people through arts, music, and education programming. Ghiberti seeks to offer Grace Cathedral’s sacred space to all people for the refreshment of the human spirit and to enliven and deepen the public conversation on what it means to be human.
Company
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach
Book and Lyrics: William Kinsolving
Vocal Arrangements: Bradley Greenwald
Music Direction: Daniel Lockert
Johann Sebastian Bach: Philip Skinner
Anna Magdalena Bach: Marnie Breckenridge
Catharina Bach: Taylor See
Zimmerman and Steiger: Simon Barrad
Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach: Jonathan Smucker
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Kevin Gino
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Chung-wai Soong
Narrator: Frederica von Stade
Sunday
9:39PM
-
9:39PM
An iPad-in-hand staged presentation of a new chamber musical.
November 19 to 25, 1731: seven days in seven scenes during which seven members of the Bach family collaborate to create the seven movements of Cantata 140.
A pivotal moment occurred to this star-crossed family. Bach had composed hundreds of cantatas in the 1720s – cycles of them – then went on to other things. Abruptly, in November 1731, he urgently rushed to compose a new cantata. Why? That mystery leads to worlds of revelations about the family. The perfect way to tell the story of that amazing week is with a musical.
The company features Merola and Adler Fellow and San Francisco Opera regular Philip Skinner and Marnie Breckenridge as Mr. and Mrs. Bach, and the legendary Frederica von Stade as the Narrator.
Learn more about That Week with the Bachs in our Blog!
Tickets
Event Details
This event is part of Spacious Grace, and is presented by the Ghiberti Center for Culture. Spacious Grace is Grace Cathedral’s annual free-form arts festival when we remove the pews and fill the space with dance, music, and theatre. Ghiberti is a nondenominational nonprofit organization whose primary purpose is to enrich and inspire all people through arts, music, and education programming. Ghiberti seeks to offer Grace Cathedral’s sacred space to all people for the refreshment of the human spirit and to enliven and deepen the public conversation on what it means to be human.
Company
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach
Book and Lyrics: William Kinsolving
Vocal Arrangements: Bradley Greenwald
Music Direction: Daniel Lockert
Johann Sebastian Bach: Philip Skinner
Anna Magdalena Bach: Marnie Breckenridge
Catharina Bach: Taylor See
Zimmerman and Steiger: Simon Barrad
Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach: Jonathan Smucker
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Kevin Gino
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Chung-wai Soong
Narrator: Frederica von Stade
Sunday
9:39PM
-
9:39PM
Sunday
9:39PM
-
9:39PM
An iPad-in-hand staged presentation of a new chamber musical.
November 19 to 25, 1731: seven days in seven scenes during which seven members of the Bach family collaborate to create the seven movements of Cantata 140.
A pivotal moment occurred to this star-crossed family. Bach had composed hundreds of cantatas in the 1720s – cycles of them – then went on to other things. Abruptly, in November 1731, he urgently rushed to compose a new cantata. Why? That mystery leads to worlds of revelations about the family. The perfect way to tell the story of that amazing week is with a musical.
The company features Merola and Adler Fellow and San Francisco Opera regular Philip Skinner and Marnie Breckenridge as Mr. and Mrs. Bach, and the legendary Frederica von Stade as the Narrator.
Learn more about That Week with the Bachs in our Blog!
Tickets
Event Details
This event is part of Spacious Grace, and is presented by the Ghiberti Center for Culture. Spacious Grace is Grace Cathedral’s annual free-form arts festival when we remove the pews and fill the space with dance, music, and theatre. Ghiberti is a nondenominational nonprofit organization whose primary purpose is to enrich and inspire all people through arts, music, and education programming. Ghiberti seeks to offer Grace Cathedral’s sacred space to all people for the refreshment of the human spirit and to enliven and deepen the public conversation on what it means to be human.
Company
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach
Book and Lyrics: William Kinsolving
Vocal Arrangements: Bradley Greenwald
Music Direction: Daniel Lockert
Johann Sebastian Bach: Philip Skinner
Anna Magdalena Bach: Marnie Breckenridge
Catharina Bach: Taylor See
Zimmerman and Steiger: Simon Barrad
Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach: Jonathan Smucker
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Kevin Gino
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Chung-wai Soong
Narrator: Frederica von Stade
What’s Happening This Week
Monday
December 4
9:00AM
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9:20AM
Morning Prayer (Zoom)
Monday
December 4
6:30PM
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8:00PM
18th Annual World Tree of Hope Lighting Celebration
Tuesday
December 5
9:00AM
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9:20AM
Morning Prayer (Zoom)
Tuesday
December 5
5:30PM
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6:30PM
Evening Prayer (In-Person and Zoom)
Tuesday
December 5
6:15PM
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7:30PM
Yoga on the Labyrinth
