St John Passion

Grammy Award–winning conductor John Nelson returns to lead the fifth annual Chicago Bach Project in a performance of J. S. Bach’s powerful St. John Passion, featuring top-tier Chicago musicians in the Chicago Bach Choir (Donald Nally, chorus master) and Orchestra, with a world-class roster of soloists. Since its inauguration in 2011, the Chicago Bach Project performances, sponsored by Soli Deo Gloria, “are among the highlights of the classical music season.” —Chicago Tribune

The program also includes a performance of Alpha and Omega, a moving a cappella choral work by renowned Scottish composer James MacMillan. Commissioned in 2011 by SDG Music Foundation with support from Crossway Publishers, the concise 6-minute work is based on a text from the New Testament Book of Revelation: “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth.”