Thursday, June 2, 2011, 7 p.m.
The St. Mary’s Cathedral Choir will be joined by guest soloists and a baroque orchestra to perform Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach’s dramatic oratorio Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu (The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus), a rarely-performed masterpiece written in 1774.  Ascension Day is one of the church’s highest holy feast days, and it is also the anniversary of the founding of St. Mary’s Cathedral (consecrated as a parish church, May 13, 1858, six months after being organized as a mission chapel by the women of Calvary Church) .  Join the choir and friends as they celebrate St. Mary’s 153rd birthday in style!