103rd Bach Festival continues this weekend in Bethlehem, Pa.

If you happen to be in the Bethlehem, Pa., area this weekend, be sure to check out the 103rd Bach Festival, held at various locations. The Bach Choir of Bethlehem is the oldest Bach choir in the United States, according to its website. This is the last weekend of the spring celebration of all things Bach and Baroque.

The centerpiece of the weekend is Saturday's Mass in B Minor, but there are other recitals, concerts and events going on. See the full schedule at bach.org.

And, as a bit of self-promotion, I'm including a link to a story I wrote about the festival for my newspaper, the Express-Times.

You can listen to the Kyrie eleison of Bach's Mass in B Minor below:

Young composers, performers featured at Bach Choir concert in Bethlehem

(Full disclosure: I wrote about this concert for The Express-Times, the newspaper where I work.)

As proof that classical music isn't just the legacy of a bunch of dead white guys, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem this weekend will have its 11th annual Family Concert, featuring school-age performers and composers. Alongside the works of Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach will be new pieces by two high school students and a middle-schooler.

The concert takes place at 3 p.m. Sunday in Baker Hall at Zoellner Arts Center, 420 E. Packer Ave., Bethlehem, Pa. If you get a chance, check it out.

To whet your appetite, here's a video from 1985 of a performance of the Agnus Dei from Mozart's "Coronation" Mass. As a footnote, none of the Family Concert's featured performers or composers were alive when this was filmed: