Bach Vesper Service scheduled for Sunday at Trinity Lutheran
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The community is invited to a special worship service at 4 p.m. Sunday at Trinity Lutheran Church, 508 Center St., Ashland. Choral and instrumental musicians from Trinity and the Ashland University Music Department will join forces to present the 17th in a series of Bach Vesper services, patterned after the order and flow of a Lutheran service from Bach’s day.
Featured music includes Bach's Cantata #111“What My God Wants Should Always Be”for the third Sunday after Epiphanyand selections from the Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C Major.
Dr. Rowland Blackley of Ashland University will direct the choir and orchestra. Mark Koehler of Trinity will be at the organ and Robert Mouledoux of Ashland University will be at the harpsichord. Pastor Kevin McClain of Trinity will preach.
“The music of the great Lutheran musician Johann Sebastian Bach is often viewed as great art - which it is - but the spiritual aspects of Bach’s settings of the Gospel are often ignored. We hope this worship service will allow the true voice of Bach’s music to speak in the context for which it was written,” said Ron Marenchin, coordinator of Music Ministries at Trinity.
The service is open to the public. A freewill offering will be received. A reception will follow.
The church building is accessible to people with handicapping conditions. For more information visit www.trinityashland.org.
This article originally appeared on Ashland Times Gazette: Bach Vesper Service scheduled for Sunday with AU's Rowland Blackley
