TRAPPE PA – Community Music School invites the public to join it for lunch – and an hour’s worth of free musical entertainment – on Thursday (Sept. 19, 2024), as well as for the next several months.
The 2024-2025 edition of its “Bach’s Lunch” mini-concert series is scheduled for the third Thursday of each month between September and May, from noon to 1 p.m. in its facilities at 775 W. Main St. Nine guests, most of them artists on the Community Music School faculty, are set to perform. Each monthly program starts promptly at 12:10 p.m.
The series is named, of course, for famed German composer and musician Johann Sebastian Bach. The school encourages visitors to bring or locally buy a bagged or “box lunch” (see what they did there?), find a comfortable seat in the venue, and then chow down on both culture and a meal.
Lunchtime listeners of all ages are welcomed.
Although programs may be subject to change, here’s the current schedule of dates and performers:
- Sept. 19, A History of Jazz with Alan Dynin on piano;
- Oct. 17, Soprano Cristina Nassif, and Emilily Kosasih on piano;
- Nov. 21, Dan Horning on trumpet;
- Dec. 19, A Holiday Music Program;
- Jan. 16 (2025), flute duo Jocelyn Crosby and Faith Wasson;
- Feb. 20, Soprano Brenna Sowers;
- March 20, Harry Oehler on trombone;
- April 17, Soprano Bailey Jo Oehler; and
- May 15, Music with the Mayor, Matthew Wismer, on piano.
Community Music School is a non-profit community organization that it says provides “quality music programs for students and audiences of all ages. With a professional teaching faculty, a 200-seat performance hall, and 18 teaching studios, (it offers) music lessons, classes, and ensembles for all instruments and all ages.”
For more information, call the school at 610-489-3676, or send it an e-mail to info@cmsmusic.org.
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Bach’s Lunch graphic from Community Music School, Trappe PA
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