Luther – Music - Bach

In 2012 we are celebrating “Reformation and Music” – a tribute to Martin Luther’s reformation that started in 1517. On music Luther wrote: “In summa, next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. It controls our thoughts, minds, heart, and spirits…”

Luther himself wrote text and music for many popular hymns to enhance the reading of the gospel and contributed extensively to the disputations at his time. For Johann Sebastian Bach, some 200 years later, theological and musical scholarships were two sides of the same coin: the search for divine revelation, or the quest for God. Many works of J.S. Bach symbolize a Trinitarian music combining word, sound and picture – truly timeless!

Bach@Trinity 2012

Throughout 2012 the Australian Bach Society, an initiative of the German Church East Melbourne, will be presenting an International Bachfest with music, movies, chats, lectures and much more around J.S. Bach. Most concerts and recitals will include young and talented musicians, ensembles and choirs from Melbourne – the finest in their respective fields. Furthermore, we will be welcoming overseas visitors to perform organ works. A whole series of special events will take place in August with world-renowned Bach-tenor Martin Petzold from Leipzig, who will follow in the footsteps of the St. Thomas Boys’ Choir who visited Australia in 2009.

This year, Leipzig is celebrating ‘800 Years Thomana’ – marking the anniversary of 800 years St. Thomas Church, St. Thomas Boys Choir and St. Thomas School with many exciting highlights, some of them we will bring to you in Melbourne. Welcome!

Program

For more information about the upcoming events please download this file . A detailed program for each event is provided closer to the date under "online ticket bookings".

PROGRAM CHANGE

Miwako Abe is recovering from a hand injury and she has been advised not to perform for several weeks. The violin part in ‘Bach 4 – 2’ J.S. Bach Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord will be played by Briaer Goessi (Concerts 1 and 2) and Rachael Beesley (concert 3).

Booking and ticket information

Tickets: $ 35 and $ 25 (concession) - Convenient booking online via www.trybooking.com . Alternatively, there is a ticket sale on the door for each event.

For general information please contact the church office: 03 9654 5743 or Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist gegen Spambots geschützt! JavaScript muss aktiviert werden, damit sie angezeigt werden kann.

Online Ticket Bookings

Bookings via 'TryBooking' are now open for the following events:

About TryBooking

The German Church East Melbourne is now utilising an automated ticketing sales and payment system for all musical and cultural events.

The Trybooking system is simple to use and holds many benefits for you, the customer, including:
•    The convenience to book and pay for your tickets 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
•    Instantly receive tickets and receipts, and print them at your convenience

As payments will be made by credit card, we understand that the integrity of the site, and its security features are important. The following is an excerpt from trybooking.com:

“Any personal information that may be used by the TryBooking Site in order to carry out its necessary functions is stored on a physically separate computer that is protected by Firewalls. The data itself is also encrypted to further reduce any risk that your information will be obtained and used by unauthorised access. We do not store your full credit card number, only the four digits is kept and this is to show you which card you have used to make the booking."

For those of you that are technically minded, the payment site is a secure ‘https’ website and is VeriSign secured.