J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor

Sunday, March 15, 2026 at 6:00 p.m.

For the first time in its storied history, Abendmusik will offer a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B minor -- arguably the most transcendent music yet composed. Tom Trenney leads sounding light, the Plymouth Choir, soloists, and the Abendmusik Orchestra in this profoundly moving work.

Freewill offering to benefit Food Fort.

Co-sponsored by the Trenney Family, Jon & Joan Michelsen, and co-sponsored by Dr. Andrew F. & Elizabeth U. Thompson in memory of Reverend Larry Doerr and Donna Ruth Doerr, with the support of Mike & Diane Dinnel and Paul Levi Dunn.

An extraordinary job application: explaining the quality and variety of J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor

Dr. Pamela F. Starr, Professor Emerita, Music History in the Glenn Korff School of Music at UNL, will give a talk entitled “An extraordinary job application: explaining the quality and variety of J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor” at 5:00 pm in Pilgrim Hall.

Dr. Pamela F. Starr taught at the UNL from 1987-2000. A native of New York City, she holds a B.A. in voice from Harpur College of the State University of New York at Binghamton, a Master’s degree in Library Science from Columbia University, and the Ph.D. in Music History from Yale University. Her research has centered on the music and musicians of the early Renaissance period, especially that of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and she has lectured and published on this subject both in the United States and in Europe.  She has also taught courses for UNL’s OLLI program on the history of choral music and community-building.

A Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, Dr. Starr has also been supported in doctoral and post-doctoral research by the American Association of University Women, the Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, The American Philosophical Society, and the Research Council of the University of Nebraska.