The former Bach Week Festival in Evanston, Illinois, which concluded its half-century run in May, has spawned Bach in the City, with an inaugural concert scheduled for 7:30 p.m. March 21, 2025, at St. Vincent De Paul Church in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, its home venue.
Choir director, organist, and composer Richard Webster, who helped launch Bach Week in 1974 and was its music director for the next 50 seasons, will serve in the same capacity with Bach in the City.
“Our entire organization is thrilled that St. Vincent has offered Bach in the City a home in the cultural heart of Lincoln Park, one of Chicago’s great destinations for the performing arts,” Webster says…