Sunday Service with a Bach Cantata 'Sermon in Sound'
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A man conducting a group of instrumentalists raises his hands in the air.
Dr. Philip Cave conducts musicians during a Bach Cantata performance.
The cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach are a form of musical exegesis, or preaching through music. Written to be performed in worship, Bach's cantatas artfully set scripture texts, hymn stanzas, prose, and poetry to various musical forms—arias, recitatives, choruses-—to create a "sermon in sound." To that end, the cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland ("Savior of the Nations, Come") will be presented in lieu of a spoken sermon in our Sunday morning worship service this Sunday, December 1, at 11:00 a.m.
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