William Baker Festival Singers at Spivey Hall
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The William Baker Festival Singers, founded in 1985, were local favorites at Spivey Hall in the 1990s. The 40-voice ensemble has produced 17 nationally released recordings in their 25 seasons, have been featured in numerous radio and television programs, and have toured across the South, including annual performances before capacity audiences at Charleston’s Piccolo Spoleto Festival.
Now, Dr. Baker and his Festival Singers return to Spivey Hall to join the legendary Atlanta organist Sue Goddard, the full orchestra and distinguished soloists to perform one of the epic works of the Baroque period, The Passion According to St. John of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Composed for the Good Friday Vespers at Leipzig in 1724, the work is the more extravagant and dramatic of two Bach Passion settings that still remain.
Join the William Baker Festival Singers on May 1st at 8:15 p.m. for the first performance of this immortal music in Spivey Hall.
