North Park鈥檚 Chamber Singers have been chosen to participate in the last ever Bach Week Festival in the culminating May 5 concert, a performance of Bach鈥檚 famous Mass in B Minor.
Over the years, North Park musicians have been invited to perform in dozens of Bach Week Festivals, an event organized by a small group of Evanston-based volunteers. They say that after 50 years of performances, with a few COVID-19-related interruptions, it鈥檚 time to retire the beloved festival, which features the Baroque-era work of Bach and his contemporaries.
For their part, North Park鈥檚 Chamber singers will perform at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston in a concert led by the festival鈥檚 Music Director Richard Webster and featuring a variety of performances by renowned local singers. Webster told WFMT, Chicago鈥檚 classical music radio station, 鈥渢hat it’s the right time for Bach Week to bid adieu, and on a high note.鈥� .