Just Bach Concerts

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courtesy Luther Memorial Church

Seven people standing in a church.

The 2023 Just Bach ensemble.

media release: Concerts for the remainder of the fall are:

October 15 – Organ works by J.S. Bach performed by Matthew O’Sullivan

November 19 at noon – Viola da gamba and cello works by Handel and Telemann

December 10 (NOT the 3rd Wednesday!) – Cantatas by Telemann and Graupner

We hope you can come to our concerts, but don’t forget that we post videos of all our concerts on YouTube, so you can watch them there as well.

Just Bach Concerts was founded to celebrate and to share with the Madison community at large the immense range of Bach’s vocal and instrumental repertoire. Just Bach Concerts presents performers who play and sing using historically-informed performance practice, bringing the music to life in a manner and style with which Bach was familiar. The audience is invited to sing along during the closing chorales – because group singing is therapeutic!

Just Bach Concerts presents free concerts on Wednesday once a month during the school year as part of the free weekly noontime concert series, Music at Midday, presented by Luther Memorial Church in Madison. Our regular season concerts are presented in-person and recorded; the recorded concert videos are posted on the Just Bach YouTube channel on Friday following the concert.

We are extremely grateful to Pastor Brad Pohlman, music director Andrew Schaeffer, and the congregation of Luther Memorial Church for hosting Music at Midday, and for including Just Bach Concerts as a regular part of the series. Special thanks go to Dave Parminter, who records the videos. We invite the Madison community to spend a half-hour with the sublime music of J.S. Bach and hope you will find our performances of Bach’s music to be centering and inspiring.

Just Bach Concerts is supported by Isthmus Eats, Luther Memorial Church, WORT, and by contributions from attendees and supporters. This project is also supported In part by grants from Dane Arts, with additional funds from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation; The Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times; and the Wisconsin Arts Board and Madison Arts Commission, with additional funds from the State of Wisconsin!