If you go
› What: Chattanooga Bach Choir concert› When: 3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 15.› Where: First Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1505 Moore Road.› Admission: $20 suggested donation.› Website: www.chattanoogabachchoir.org.
The Chattanooga Bach Choir will celebrate the Feast of Pentecost on Sunday, May 15, with “Music for Festive Days,” a concert at First Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
“Ascension was May 5. It’s very festive, and that’s where the title ‘Music for Festive Days’ comes in,” says David Long, choir director. “In the Catholic, Lutheran and Episcopal churches, that’s called a Feast Day, kind of a high Holy Day.”
Ascension celebrates the day on which the risen Christ ascended bodily into Heaven in the sight of his apostles, according to the Gospels of Luke, Mark and Acts. Pentecost is a holy day that falls on the seventh Sunday after Easter. It celebrates the coming, or descent, of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and Virgin Mary.
Long has chosen a program of music that spans musical eras from J.S. Bach’s 1735 Ascension Oratorio to two songs from the soundtrack of the 1994 movie “Shadowlands” about Christian theologian C.S. Lewis.