Sonoma Bach Choir opens 25th anniversary season

The 45-voice Sonoma Bach Choir, led by founder and musical director Robert Worth, will open its 25th anniversary season at 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, in the Green Music Center’s Schroeder Hall at Sonoma State University.

The program for the first concert is titled “Montiverdi and His Milieu.” The choir’s repertoire goes beyond Bach include other composers from the Baroque period. roughly 1600 to 1750.

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi, an Italian composer, singer and Roman Catholic priest. was baptized in 1567 and died in 1643. His work marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to Baroque, historians say.

Admission: $15-$25. Information: 877-914-2224, sonomabach.org. The Sonoma Bach Choir season continues through early May 2016.

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