Grace Notes
Volume 4
December 2024
GRACE NOTES
looking ahead
Chamber Series
Masterwork Concert
Education/Events
Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos
Friday, January 24 @ 7 pm at Lebanon Opera House – Lebanon NH
Saturday, January 25 @ 3 pm at Chandler Center for the Arts – Randolph VT
Sunday, January 26 @ 2 pm at Grace Congregational Church – Rutland VT
Upper Valley Baroque performs all six Brandenburg Concertos, featuring world-class instrumental soloists.
Dialogues and Devotions: Great Baroque Duets
Saturday, March 1 @ 7 pm at St. Thomas Episcopal Church – Hanover NH
Sunday, March 2 @ 2 pm at North Chapel – Woodstock VT
Upper Valley Baroque bass soloist Paul Max Tipton is joined by soprano Paulina Francisco to perform beautiful Baroque duets, accompanied by a virtuosic trio on period instruments.
Handel’s L’Allegro, Il Penseroso ed Il Moderato
Saturday, April 5 @ 3 pm at Chandler Center for the Arts – Randolph VT
Sunday, April 6 @ 3 pm at Lebanon Opera House – Lebanon NH
Handel’s masterwork — a dramatic setting of texts inspired by John Milton and William Shakespeare — explores joyful, sad, and “moderate” musings. In English, with featured renowned soprano Amanda Forsythe.
A Bach Family Affair: Organ Music by J.S. Bach and His Circle
Performed by James Welch on the CCDC organ
Saturday, May 17 @ 7pm: Church of Christ at Dartmouth College – Hanover, NH
Guest Organist James Welch plays music by Bach and those who were important to him: a teacher, his children, his students, his followers, his publisher, and his wife. The stories that accompany these composers reveal new insights on the importance of Bach’s music.