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 Our 2023-24 season of Bach, the Universe and Everything continues to explore beyond the boundaries of our home planet.

Is there life out there? It may be some time before we’re making reservations at Milliways (aka The Restaurant at the End of the Universe in The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy ‘trilogy’), but astronomers and scientists are increasingly finding signs of life in the solar system and beyond. The 2023-24 season of Bach, the Universe and Everything – the OAE’s concert series with a difference – sets off in search of answers once again.

Bach, the Universe and Everything is a concert series with a difference. Across six Sunday morning events, each with a guest speaker, our mission is to explore the human desire to better understand our place in the cosmos, guided by the work of JS Bach – composer and intergalactic genius – through his 200 cantatas.

Each event is built around a Bach cantata and a talk from an eminent astronomer, writer or scientist, alongside choral and instrumental music by other baroque and renaissance composers. The concert lasts approximately one hour.

‘He was wrong to think he could now forget that the big, hard, oily, dirty, rainbow-hung Earth on which he lived was a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot lost in the unimaginable infinity of the Universe.’

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 

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Bach, the Universe and Everything: Soul Music

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The December edition features one of his advent cantatas, the sublime Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186a, first performed in December 1716.

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Bach, the Universe and Everything: Here Comes the Sun

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In the first Bach, the Universe & Everything of 2024, as the days begin to grow longer we look to the sun with leading science communicator and solar expert Professor Lucie Green.

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Bach, the Universe and Everything: Got to Have Faith

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Bach’s Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe, BWV 22 may have been his audition piece in Leipzig. Aptly for our series, it speaks of the need for faith in the face of a journey into the unknown.

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Bach, the Universe and Everything: To Infinity and Beyond

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Bach’s glorious and virtuosic Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens BWV 148, is a call for kindness and generosity. Astronomer, writer and stargazer Stuart Clark will survey the future of our relationship with space and where it might take us.

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