Marc-Antoine Charpentier News

I have long wished to hear a live performance of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Descent d'Orphee aux enfers.

Trinity Episcopal Parish, corner of King and St. George streets, presents its annual fall organ concert at 7:30 p.m. today featuring Trinity organist Jon Gates, joined by local trumpeter Ralph Geiger.

Musicians of the Old Post Road will present the Christmas works of French master Marc-Antoine Charpentier in 'Joyeux Noel - A French Baroque Christmas' at 8 p.m. Saturday at Trinity Lutheran Church, 73 Lancaster St., Worcester.

Dr. Sue Ellen Ballard conducts the Eastern Kentucky University Orchestra and Concert Choir in a performance of "Midnight Mass for Christmas" by Marc-Antoine Charpentier on Tuesday evening in First Baptist Church on the Eastern Bypass.

Everything old was new again at the Musica Sacra concert Sunday at St. Francis Xavier church a concert of music written for a Jesuit church in 17th-century Paris and performed in a Jesuit church in 20th-century America.Musica Sacra, Rockhurst Universitys ensemble in residence since 1991, is a volunteer 36-voice chorus specializing in sacred music.