Guest Artists

On Saturday March 15, 2008 the Bucks County Symphony will host the annual Pops concert at Delaware Valley College. Our Featured soloist this year is Teri Dale Hansen, Broadway Star. She has received international recognition for her versatility, from the opera to theatre and Broadway musicals. This is the event where you are invited to bring your own refreshments,sit caberet style and enjoy a wonderful show.

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On Saturday March 15, 2008 the Bucks County Symphony will host the annual Pops concert at Delaware Valley College. Our Featured soloist this year is Teri Dale Hansen, Broadway Star. She has received international recognition for her versatility, from the opera to theatre and Broadway musicals. This is the event where you are invited to bring your own refreshments,sit caberet style and enjoy a wonderful show.

For more information click here.

On Sunday November 11, 2007 The Bucks County Symphony and The Saint Paul’s Singers will perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cantata BWV 80 Ein Fest Burg (A Mighty Fortress) at 4 PM at Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church, 301 N. Main Street in Doylestown, PA.18901. The concert is Free to the public.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is one of the greatest composers of all time, and certainly the greatest of all Lutheran composers.  He came from a family of church and town musicians and spent most of his life, serving as a church and court musician in a small German territory. His last 27 years were spent as Cantor in Leipzig, where he was responsible for the music in the town churches and at the St. Thomas School.  He had immense musical influence. Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Mendelssohn all carefully studied his works.

Cantatas are musical works for voice with instrumental accompaniment, ranging in scope from small chamber works for a few musicians to large scale oratorios.  They originated in Italy where they were developed as a religious counterpart to the secular operas that the church regarded as scandalous. Indeed, Bach’s cantatas could be regarded as mini-operas on sacred themes.  Bach wrote his cantatas to be an integral part of the Lutheran service. Cantata BWV 80 was composed for the Festival of the Reformation, which celebrates Martin Luther nailing his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517. It is based on the famous hymn Ein Fest Burg (A Mighty Fortress is our God), which was written and composed by Martin Luther himself.

The Bucks County Symphony is under the Direction of Maestro Gary Fagin and the Saint Paul’s Singers will be directed in this concert  by Dr. Joseph Ohrt, the Choir Director For Central Bucks West High School.