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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Bach Cantatas tickets

Name: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Bach Cantatas
Start: 2025-12-09
End: 2025-12-09
Location: Alice Tully Hall

Delve into the humor of the Coffee Cantata, where a father comically battles his daughter's coffee obsession.

A group of musicians and a vocalist perform onstage with string, woodwind, and keyboard instruments, facing an audience in a concert hall.

Four musicians perform on stage with a violin, flute, harpsichord, and cello. Music stands and microphones are placed in front of them against a wooden backdrop.

A pianist plays a grand piano while a man in a suit stands beside it, singing on stage. Sheet music is open on the piano, and both appear to be performing in a concert hall.

About Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Bach Cantatas

No composer wrote more voluminously or skillfully for the voice than Johann Sebastian Bach, and this selection of chamber cantatas offers a gorgeous sampling of Bach’s vocal music, including his only cantatas in Italian. Caffeine dependency is not a recent trend, as shown in the satirical “Coffee Cantata,” in effect a short comic opera about a drink that was taking Europe by storm; the cantata, in which a father attempts to bribe his daughter to give up the tantalizing beverage, humorously mocks both the growing popularity of coffee and the feeling that the trendy drink was a bad habit.

Joélle Harvey: Soprano;
Paul Appleby: Tenor;
John Moore: Baritone;
Kenneth Weiss: Harpsichord;
Ani Kavafian & Cho-Liang Lin: Violin;
Lawrence Dutton: Viola;
Timothy Eddy: Cello;
Blake Hinson: Double Bass;
Demarre McGill & Yoobin Son: Flute;
Peter Kolkay: Bassoon