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This newsletter will take you behind the scenes with the Bach Ensemble as we prepare to perform Bach’s Mass in B Minor, BWV 232, in April 2027.
Over the coming year, I hope to give you a window into what it means to prepare a work of this scale: the study, the decisions, the questions, the discoveries, and the inevitable surprises along the way. The Mass…
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