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Bach's Magnificat

Name: Bach's Magnificat
Start: 2023-05-19T19:30:00
Location: Cincinnati Music Hall

Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts

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Principal Conductor Juanjo Mena opens the 150th Festival with world premieres by American composer James Lee III and former May Festival Creative Partner James MacMillan. Given its American premiere at the 1875 May Festival, Bach's celebratory Magnificat was described then as we would now— as "the highest form of human expression."

Program

Johann Sebastian Bach - Magnificat

Composer

Participants

Matthew Swanson

Director

Jason Holmes

Artistic Director

May Festival Chorus

Orchestra

Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts

Producer