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The new year will bring a powerful performance of J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion by the American Classical Orchestra and Chorus on Thursday, January 30, 2025, at Alice Tully Hall. Maestro Crawford conducts the orchestra and chorus in this grand choral works of Bach in a deeply spiritual, yet historically informed way that outshines any other orchestra in the United States. Bach’s St. John Passion is not the first oratorio he wrote, but it is his earliest such work to survive. He composed it just after his 39th birthday, for a Vesper service on Good Friday, while he was director of church music in Leipzig. It premiered on April 7, 1724, three years before the St. Matthew Passion, his only other surviving Passion of the five that he wrote. For this vocal masterpiece, the ACO will again welcome acclaimed countertenor, Reginald Mobley, and soprano Kristen Hahn as soloists, as well as tenor Jacob Perry as the Evangelist.

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