A Passion 25 years in the making

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: April 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

EMMANUEL MUSIC

Craig Smith, artistic director

In a performance of Bach's "St. Matthew" Passion At: Emmanuel Church, Saturday night Few cities get to hear Bach's "St. Matthew" Passion as often as Boston does. There is at least one performance every season, and over the last 25 years at least eight professional organizations have presented it, sometimes quite regularly -- and there have been school performances as well. Until the past weekend one of the groups best-fitted to perform this mighty work had not done so: Emmanuel Music, which has performed more music of Bach than any other ...

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