Dryden Ensemble To Perform At Princeton Theological Seminary Sunday

PRINCETON, NJ – The Dryden ensemble will be performing at the at the Princeton Theological Seminary Chapel on Sunday.

The ensemble will present “Anna Magdalena Bach: Her Story” at 3 p.m. This concert is free and open to the public.

The concert is based on the life of Bach’s second wife, Anna Magdalena Bach. It features poems written by Jane McKinley interspersed with chamber music by J. S. Bach and others, performed by Lisa Terry, cello and viola da gamba, and Webb Wiggins, harpsichord.

Very little is known about daily life in the Bach household; the poems rely on surviving letters and documents as points of departure.

The musical program features movements from Bach’s Suites for Unaccompanied Violoncello and pieces from Anna Magdalena’s Notebooks, including Bach’s French Suites for harpsichord, which he copied out for Anna Magdalena in 1722, in the months after they married.

The Dryden Ensemble’s series will continue next month with two concerts on March 25 and 26. Titled “Pergolesi & Bach,” the concert is a memorial to those who died during the pandemic. The program features soprano Teresa Wakim and mezzo-soprano Kristen Dubenion-Smith.

The Dryden Ensemble will end its season on April 16 with s special show, details of which will be announced later.

Tickets for the March and April concerts are available online at drydenensemble.org.

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