Arts at St. John's

05/31/2024

03/16/2024

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free concert THIS SUNDAY, March 17 3:00 pm ALIGHIERI DUO Nicholas Pappone, violin & Candace Chien, piano free and open to the public Program to include music by Grieg, Bach, Bridge, and Beethoven.

01/27/2024

WDIY is proud to honor the more than 120 volunteers that make Lehigh Valley Public Radio Possible. 💚

This week, for our 40th highlight, we are recognizing Paul Willistein! Paul is the host of At the Movies, WDIY’s weekly film review feature. He also occasionally hosts special episodes of Lehigh Valley Arts Salon, including welcoming the winners of the annual Lehigh Valley Press Student Poetry Project. Paul is the editor of the Lehigh Valley Press Focus section, a position he has held since 2008. Paul has received more than 30 Keystone Media state newspaper journalism awards and an Allentown Arts Commission Arts Ovation Award.

We give your volunteer work five out of five stars, Paul! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

11/20/2023

The Arts@St Johns is delighted to host The Mainstreet Brass on Sunday, December 3rd at 3PM. It is sure to be a delightful concert to begin the Christmas season!

The ensemble is recognized for its refined playing and for commissioning new literature and arrangements. The Mainstreet Brass spirit creates a captivating on stage energy from the opening downbeat to the final chord — a memorable experience that’s enthusiastically shared with others.

We hope you plan to attend this Mainstreet Brass concert on December 3rd – we know you will discover why its music making can be an uplifting, magical escape from the routine and welcome the Christmas season!

Free will donations accepted. Free parking on S. 5th St. and in the lot at Walnut and 5th Sts.

11/08/2023

02/06/2023

A free concert was held Sunday afternoon at St. John's Lutheran Church on South Fifth Street.

02/03/2023

CONCERT with Allentown Band - THIS SUNDAY, February 5, 3:00 pm. Featured soloists will be Chet Brown, singing songs of Duke Ellington and Sammy Davis,Jr.; Evelyn Stewart, on "Five American Gospel Songs" by Luigi Zaninelli;, DeVaughn Roberts, on FlugelHorn and Trumpet with "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child," and Eric Gombert performing Black composer Florene Price's "Adoration" on the magnificent Pipe Organ. Also on the program, the band will perform Selections from George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess and the music of W.C. Handy and Scott Joplin.

This live concert, conducted by Ronald Demkee, is free and open to the public and will also be Live Streamed by following this link: https://youtube.com/live/jVrjOYy2MXE?feature=share The concert is supported by the Music Performance Trust Fund, administered locally by the Lehigh Valley Musicians Association, Local 45, AFM.

Free parking is available on 5th street, in the Church's lots along Levan St, and at the "Contract Parking Only" lot across Walnut st with entrance from 5th st.

12/10/2022

Last year’s Allentown Band concert at St. John’s.

12/10/2022

Don't forget to get your tickets to hear the Bach Choir at First Presbyterian, Allentown this afternoon at NEW TIME 4:00 pm. https://bach.secure.force.com/ticket/?fbclid=IwAR2w7G7MCOuwgVBsBMEz2XYtt21EPIyM6tu9d2DhH503e_58M6HBdLly8JA #/events/a0S8c00000NOHxqEAH

See you tomorrow at St. John's at 3:00 pm for our concert by the Allentown Band

"The way that Bach uses large choral movements, humble and intimate chorale settings, solo arias, and recitative, to evoke something in us is truly astounding. We cannot wait to perform them for you and to help communicate the depth of meaning we know Bach instilled there within them.”
~Artistic Director & Conductor, Dr. Christopher Jackson shares his passionate insight into the music of J.S. Bach, this time focusing on of his Christmas Oratorio. Join The Bach Choir of Bethlehem this weekend to hear Bach’s compelling Christmas Oratorio Parts 4,5&6! Buy your tickets today! Link in the bio!

10/29/2022

📢🚨Announcing our Soloists🚨📢
Come hear Jeffrey in our Mozart: Requiem at the Arts at St. John's series!

Jeffrey Bell, Tenor, is excited to be reprising Mozart’s Requiem after a long hiatus from performing. He studied locally at Moravian University as well as abroad, performing in numerous European cities and venues. His operatic repertoire includes Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), L’elisir D’amore, (The Elixir of Love), Vanessa, Le Contes D'Hoffmann (Tales of Hoffmann), The Rake’s Progress, Tosca, Il Matrimonio Segreto (The Secret Marriage), Semele, L'amico Fritz and Ariodante. Other past solo performances include Mendelssohn's Elijah, Amy Beach’s Mass in E♭, and Handel’s Messiah. Outside of classical works, Jeffrey frequently fronted jazz combos and big bands and performed the role of Jesus in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar. Outside of music, Jeffrey owns a manufacturing company and directs the technological innovation team.

10/26/2022

📢🚨Announcing our Soloists🚨📢
Come hear Alyce in our Mozart: Requiem at the Arts at St. John's series!

Alyce Daubenspeck is a classically-trained mezzo-soprano whose public performances have been described as "emotionally shattering" with a voice "fully formed from top to bottom, a pristine tone, and high notes that are both extraordinarily controlled and on the edge of wildness."

A Nazareth native, Ms. Daubenspeck enjoys performing opera, oratorio, and musical theater. She has most recently performed with Salt Marsh Opera (2022), Opera Raylynmor (2022), Opera Ithaca (2022), Chicago Summer Opera (2021), Amici Opera (2020), Opera Steamboat (2019), Opera in the Ozarks (2018), Westminster Opera Theater (2016 – 2017), and the Princeton Festival (2016). Ms. Daubenspeck’s past roles have included the Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Marcellina (Le Nozze di Figaro), the Witch (Hänsel und Gretel), Anita (La Navarraise), Armelinde (Cendrillon), Augusta (The Ballad of Baby Doe), Berta (Il barbiere di Siviglia) Madame de Croissy (Dialogues des Carmélites), Third Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Lyubov (Mazepa), La Tasse Chinoise (L’enfant et les sortilèges) and Virginia (Billy Blythe).

Ms.Daubenspeck graduated with distinction from Westminster Choir College in 2018 with a Master of Music in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy. She studies privately in the studio of the distinguished dramatic soprano Sharon Sweet, and enjoys a spot on the roster of Jim Harwood’s management in NYC.

10/26/2022

📢🚨Announcing our Soloists🚨📢
Come hear Anthony in our Mozart: Requiem at the Arts at St. John's series!

Anthony Sharp (they/he) is an operatic bass and pianist holding a M.M. in Voice Performance from The Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University (‘22) and a B.M. in Voice Performance from Temple University (‘18). While at Peabody, Anthony was featured in Handel’s Semele and Argento’s Postcard from Morocco, and won 1st prize in the 2020 Vocal Studies Song Competition. Anthony is now Director of Music (organist/choirmaster) at Allentown’s Episcopal Church of the Mediator and Associate Director/Accompanist of Valley Voices—a community chorus based in Neffs. Anthony is passionate about coaching and teaching singers of all levels, and does so privately as well as at Lehigh Valley’s Community Music School. As a bass chorister, Anthony has enjoyed singing with Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Opera Philadelphia Chorus, Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, Westminster Chapel Choir, and Interrupted Silence.

10/25/2022

📢🚨Announcing our Soloists🚨📢
Come hear Sarah in our Mozart: Requiem at the Arts at St. John's series!

Sarah Robbins is excited to join Interrupted Silence for another meaningful music making experience. Seen last year as a soloist in Handel’s Messiah, Sarah is a teaching and performing artist based in South Jersey. Favorite stage credits include Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte, Serpina in La serva padrona, and Fantine in Les Miserables. She graduated from Rowan University in 2021 with a degree in Vocal Music Education, and frequently performs as a soloist and chorister in the tristate area. Outside of performing, Sarah teaches elementary music and directs a church choir.

08/08/2022

Join us on August 9 I'm excited to be conducting my first Bach at Noon featuring members of The Bach Choir and a sizeable orchestra performing J.S. Bach’s Cantata 130, Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir!

08/03/2022

Our summer Bach at Noon series with Arts at St. John's comes to a close next week!

Join Artistic Director and Conductor Christopher Jackson, members of The Choir and Festival Orchestra and our guest soloists on August 9 for a gorgeous program of Bach!

https://bach.org/event/bach-at-noon-august-9/

06/23/2022

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Henry Muhlenberg presentation on June 26 presents Episodes from the life of Henry Muhlenberg Sunday, June 26 - 3:00 pm The Rev. Thomas Kochenderfer, a retired Lutheran pastor, re-enacts episodes from