The Bach Christmas Oratorio

Name: The Bach Christmas Oratorio
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Location: St. François d’Assise Church

Dec. 19 - 20, 2021
St. François d’Assise Church
20 Fairmont Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 2K2

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Add To Calendar 0001-01-01 0:00 0001-01-01 0:00 UTC The Bach Christmas Oratorio The OCS presents Johann Sebastien Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, the series of cantatas that is a perennial festive favourite illuminating through the composer’s incomparable scoring and his concise settings of Biblical texts, the original Christmas story. St. François d’Assise Church @ 20 Fairmont Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y 2K2 Ottawa Choral Society info@ottawachoralsociety.com
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The Bach Christmas Oratorio will be the Choral Society’s first live performances since the imposition of Covid-related health measures and will open the OCS’s 2021 – 2022 season. Capturing the joy and solemnity of the year-end holidays, the performances will “celebrate the return of live music and its vital role in our lives,” says OCS Artistic Director Jean-Sébastien Vallée. The concert will feature the Oratorio’s first, third, fifth and sixth cantatas, each corresponding to a day in the Christmas liturgical calendar, including the story of Christ’s birth; His worship by the shepherds; Herod’s search for the Child; and the visit of the Magi, or the Epiphany. The concert will be the perfect complement to the start of the holiday season.

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Dec. 19 - 20, 2021

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St. François d’Assise Church

20 Fairmont Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 2K2

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