1. Shout for Joy! PBO at 40

What better way to herald PBO’s 40th anniversary season than to revel in the rich combination of natural trumpet along with soprano and strings? Our program includes Handel’s youthful Gloria – rediscovered in 2001 – and concludes with Bach’s exuberant cantata, “Praise the Lord in all lands,” featuring PBO principal trumpet Kris Kwapis and soprano Arwen Myers. Nestled between lies a double violin concerto from Vivaldi’s celebrated collection, ‘’The Harmonic Inspiration.’’ Small wonder it inspired Bach to arrange it for the organ.

Program includes:

• George Frideric Handel Gloria in excelsis deo
• Antonio Vivaldi Concerto for Two Violins in A Minor, Opus 3, No. 8
• from L’estro armonico 
• Johann Sebastian Bach Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen