The Juilliard School presents its sixth annual Jerome L. Greene concert featuring Baroque music on Wednesday, November 28 at 8 PM at St. Peter's Church in Manhattan

Concert features Paul Jacobs, chair of Juilliard's organ department and a trio of Juilliard students in performances of Bach's keyboard and organ music with string trio arrangements of Bach by Mozart

The Juilliard School presents its sixth annual Jerome L. Greene concert on Wednesday, November 28 at 8 PM, with a pre-concert talk at 7:30 PM, at Saint Peter’s Church, located at Lexington and 54th Street. The concert honors the memory of Juilliard’s late trustee and supporter Jerome L. Greene, who gave generously to the arts and to his alma mater Columbia University throughout his life and via his estate. His gifts have provided scholarships for Juilliard students in all three of its divisions -- dance, drama, and in particular, music – including these annual concerts, the first-ever endowed at Juilliard for the performance of Baroque music.

Paul Jacobs, organist and chair of Juilliard’s organ department, and a string trio, featuring violinist Noah Geller, violist Lisa Steltenpohl, and cellist David Huckaby, will alternate between Mozart’s string adaptations of Bach and music originally composed by Bach for the organ. Following each Mozart arrangement, Mr. Jacobs will perform one of four great organ Preludes and Fugues. Bach’s organ works have inspired generations of composers, among them, Liszt and Brahms. By adding Mozart’s arrangements to the concert, audience members will experience a rare side of Mozart, who himself was a virtuoso organist. Mozart’s works are a reminder that composers in the Baroque and Classical periods adapted not only their own music, but music of other composers.

 The program includes Bach/Mozart: Prelude and Fugue in D Minor, KV 404a, No. 1 (string trio); Bach: Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 543 (organ); Bach/Mozart: Prelude and Fugue in F Major, KV 404a, No. 4 (string trio); Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G Major, BWV 541 (organ); Bach/Mozart: Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major, KV 404a, No. 5 (string trio); Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E Minor, BWV 548 (The Wedge) (organ); Bach/Mozart: Prelude and Fugue in F Major, K 404a, No. 3 (string trio); and Bach: Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532 (organ).
 
Limited FREE tickets are available for this concert beginning on November 14 at the Juilliard Box Office, located at 60 Lincoln Center Plaza. Juilliard Box Office hours are Monday through Friday from 11 AM to 6 PM. To get to the Box Office, walk west on 65th Street towards Amsterdam Avenue and take the escalator or elevator to the plaza level. For more information, call (212) 769-7406 or see www.juilliard.edu.

St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, located in midtown on the eastside of Manhattan, offers a Klais organ (Johannes Klais Orgelbau of Bonn, Germany), an instrument similar to those Bach would have played. The organist is situated within the sanctuary, making the church an ideal place for Baroque music. Klais Orgelbau has built important organs in the cathedrals of Wurzburg, Trier, Graz, Limburg, Berlin, Mainz, Ghent, Cologne, and Frankfurt. The St. Peter’s organ is the first Klais in an institution open to the public in the United States. 
       
Paul Jacobs, who conceived of this year’s Jerome L. Greene concert program, is credited with reinvigorating the American organ scene with a fresh performance style in repertoire that ranges from the 16th century to contemporary times. In 2000, when still an undergraduate at Curtis Institute, Mr. Jacobs made musical history, when on the 250th anniversary of the death of J.S. Bach, he played the composer’s complete organ music in an 18-hour non-stop marathon. He joined the Juilliard faculty in 2003 at the age of 26, making him one of the youngest faculty appointments in the School’s history, and he became chair of the organ department the following year. Currently, Mr. Jacobs is the youngest faculty member to hold Juilliard’s William Schuman Scholars Chair. In addition to his work at Juilliard, Mr. Jacobs gives about 40 concerts a year and has performed on five continents. As an educator, he is becoming the leader of a new generation of organists. 
      
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