Lenten Concert Comes to Pleasanton

A talented music group, BACH—Bay Area Classical Harmonies—will perform sacred music in the Lynnewood United Methodist Church sanctuary during Lent.  The community concert will be held Saturday, April 5 at 7:00 pm, to include two full cantatas and a motet by J. S. Bach.  Andrew Chung will conduct the chorus, orchestra, and soloists, including Sepp Hammer (bass-baritone) and Michael Kim (tenor).

Chung is the founder and conductor of BACH, a group of gifted young musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Sepp Hammer is a Livermore High School and U.C. Berkeley graduate, who went on to study voice at the New England Conservatory and sings classical music in the Bay Area.

Tickets at the door will be sold for $20 for adults and $15 for students and seniors.  A reception will follow the concert with an opportunity to greet the performers.

The music will be sung in the original German with written translations in the program.  “Himmelskönig, sei willkommen” uses the text for Palm Sunday, written by Bach for his church in 1714.  “Christ lag in Todes Banden” was composed by Bach for Easter, 1707.  The Lynnewood Church offers this rare opportunity to hear Bach’s music performed in a church as it would have been performed in the 18th century in Germany during the season of Lent.

Lynnewood UMC is located at 4444 Black Ave., Pleasanton, CA.  

For information: 925 846-0221, office@lynnewood.org, www.lynnewood.org