This weekend will be bookended by two concerts of music by Johann Sebastian Bach. Princeton Theological Seminary’s Miller Chapel will resound with the complete Leipzig Chorales, presented by students of Westminster Choir College of Rider University on Friday at 7:30 p.m. Then the Dryden Ensemble will perform a selection of sublime cantatas at the same venue on Sunday at 3 p.m.

The Dryden program is one of many that had to be rescheduled thanks to Winter Storm Jonas, which threw the region into chaos and had the effect of silencing area music-making.

For its annual Bach Cantata Fest, the group will present an assortment of recitatives and arias, including selections from Cantata 36, “Schwingt freudig euch empor” (“Soar joyfully upwards”); Cantata 78, “Jesu, der du meine Seele” (“Jesus, You, who my soul”); and Cantata 159, “Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem” (“Behold, let us go up to Jerusalem”). Also featured will be the complete Cantata 82, “Ich habe genug” (“It is enough), sung by guest baritone William Sharp.

The Dryden ensemble performs on period instruments. The Westminster organ concert will include student singers.

Find out more about both events in my article in today’s Trenton Times:

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/02/classical_music_westminster_ch.html