Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Master Season Concerts

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
The Passion According to St. Matthew, BWV 244 (1727)

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

March 27-29, 1996

Carnegie Hall
New York, NY

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus
St. Thomas Boys Choir
Yoel Levi, music director
Orchestra of St. Luke's
Robert Shaw conductor
Scot Weir, tenor (Evangelist)
William Stone, baritone (Jesus)
Sylvia McNair, soprano
Marietta Simpson, mezzo-soprano
Richard Clement, tenor
James Michael MGuire, baritone
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus
Members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus

Assisting Artists:
William Borland, bass (Pilate, Peter)
Stephen Ozcomert, baritone (Judas, High Priest)
Theodore Tsaltas, bass (High Priest)
Arietha Lockhard, soprano (Maidservant)
Donna Carter, soprano (Maidservant, Pilate's wife)
Pamela Elrod, alto (False witness)
David Blalock, tenor (False witness)
Cecylia Arzewski, violin
Christopher Rex, cello
Christina Smith, flute
Paul Brittan, flute
Jonathan Dlouhy, oboe d'amore/oboe
Deborah Workman, oboe d'amore/oboe
Patrick McFarland, English horn/oboe
Yvonne Powers, English horn/oboe

Orchestra and choral concert

Newspaper article review

"Bach, Both Biblical and Lithe"
by James R. Oestreich

The New York Times
April 6, 1996