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2025 - 2026 Performance Season
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Emmanuel Music engages with audiences and musicians to explore the enduring questions of our shared human experience, building on our core commitment to the music of J.S. Bach.

2024-2025 Season

A performance at the Lindsey Chapel

Lindsey Chapel Series

Bach Six English Suites for Keyboard, BWV 806-811

March 6 - April 10, 2025
Lindsay Chapel, Emmanuel Church

Our popular Lindsey Chapel Series provides free in-person performances by solo musicians and small ensembles from 12:00–1:00pm on Thursdays throughout Lent. This year we present the complete English Suites for keyboard of J. S. Bach performed by six extraordinary Boston harpsichordists. Experience the architectural beauty and intimate acoustics of one of the most beautiful Lady Chapels in the country. The 2025 Lindsey Chapel Series will not be available to stream.
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Bach: Mass in B Minor

Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Emmanuel Church Sanctuary

Arguably J.S. Bach’s most towering achievement, Emmanuel Music rounds out the 2024-25 performance season by putting our trademark stamp on this great work of vocal and orchestral mastery. Experience the wonder of Bach’s enduring voice, and prepare to lose yourself in this sonic landscape.
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A performance from Emmanuel's weekly cantata series

Cantata Series

Sunday, September 22, 2024 - May 11, 2025 at 10:00am
Emmanuel Church Sanctuary

The core of our founding, Emmanuel Music presents a different cantata each Sunday, typically by J.S. Bach, as part of the worship service at Emmanuel Church. All are welcome to attend the church service which starts at 10:00am, and/or the cantata presentation which usually begins around 11:00am.
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The 2025 Bach Institute Fellows perform with the Emmanuel Music Orchestra

The Bach Institute Winter Intensive: Bach and Society

January 8 - 19, 2025
Emmanuel Church

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The Bach Institute January 2025 Intensive takes an important leap forward with its proposed focus on "Bach and Society." We will engage with members of Emmanuel and Boston's wider community by exploring the message in Bach's music and its power to challenge and transform our lives. Bach's cantatas speak vividly and poignantly about the human condition; our aspirations, our failings, and how to create a right relationship to God and to our neighbor. This year's Bach Institute will explore how a just society might work from the perspective of the cantata literature.
Soprano performs vocal chamber music with string quartet

Songs of Lost Innocence

Chamber Music for Voice and String Quartet

Sunday, October 20, 2024, 4:00pm
Emmanuel Church Parish Hall

Emmanuel Music launches the 2024–25 performance season with a celebration of our roots as a chamber vocal ensemble. Exploring a wide range of songs across time, join us for this contemplative juxtaposition of works by living composers with classic vocal repertoire. Music for voice and string quartet by Samuel Barber, Elena Ruehr, Florence Price, Clara Schumann, Kaija Saariaho, Gabriel Fauré, and Omar Najmi.
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Emmanuel Choir perform the annual Christmas Concert

Christmas at Emmanuel

In Collaboration with Project STEP

Sunday, December 15, 2024 at 4:00pm
Emmanuel Church Sanctuary

Ring in the holiday season with traditions both old and new as we celebrate with uplifting and glorifying works of J.S. Bach setting the stage for the New England premiere of Evan Williams’ Little Mass for Christmas. Start something bright and new with Emmanuel Music this winter.

Emmanuel continues its collaboration with local organization Project STEP, which provides talented young musicians that identify with historically underrepresented groups in classical music with comprehensive music instruction.
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An essential destination for Bach performance and scholarship, Emmanuel Music offers inspiring artistry and experiences—welcoming both the seasoned listener and the newly curious—and exuberantly fulfills a vital and unique role in both the Boston and global cultural landscape.

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We couldn’t be more delighted to celebrate with you, all of Emmanuel Music’s artistry and programming, both innovative and traditional, as we prepare to enter our 54th season.

We hope the below brochure will demonstrate how innovation meets tradition at Emmanuel Music; how we uphold our artistic legacy while embracing the tools and needs of our current moment.

As Emmanuel Music’s programs are 75% funded by individual philanthropy, none of this would be possible without your support in any amount.

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With your support, Emmanuel Music provides inspiring experiences for listeners from all walks of life and nurtures a warm, vital community that shares the love of extraordinary music.

Enriching the cultural life of Boston and the musical world at large.

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With your support, Emmanuel Music provides inspiring experiences for listeners from all walks of life and nurtures a warm, vital community that shares the love of extraordinary music—enriching the cultural life of Boston and the musical world at large.

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