Bach’s Cantata 171: Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm
Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks
Gott, dem der Erden kreis zu klein from Bach’s Cantata 91

Janna Critz, Alto
Dr. Min Jin, Tenor
Bella Voce from John Carroll High School, Student Voice Exchange Choir

Our Winter Fireworks concert features three grand works. Bach’s bold and lively Cantata 171 is a grandiose cantata that opens with a full chorus and vibrant orchestra of oboes and trumpets. It is most well known as the first version of the second chorus in the Credo of the Mass in B minor. The equally impressive Music for the Royal Fireworks is a band suite composed by Handel to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession and the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. It premiered with fireworks in London’s Green Park for an audience of over 12,000 in 1749. Closing the program is the tenor aria from Bach’s Cantata 91: Gott, dem der Erden kreis zu klein (God, for whom the orbit of the earth is too small).

Admission: $25 Advance/ $27 Door