The Music This Week: May 4th, 2014

This Sunday Mary Clifford is going to be playing the violin for us, so in choosing the music for the prelude, offertory, and postlude I thought I should take my cue from her. She's playing a lovely little piece by J.S. Bach, which was written in the Baroque Era but shares some characteristics with the Classical Era, particularly the structural symmetry, slow harmonic movement (meaning the underlying chords do not change very often), and a predictable, but satisfying melody. Because we've done quite a lot of Baroque music recently, I thought we would do some classical this week instead. So we will have lots of sonatas and sonatinas from the era Mozart wrote in!