On March 18th we will have a guest artist singing in worship. Reggie Smith is a baritone from Atlanta at the beginning of an exciting career. We are fortunate to be able to get him here! That afternoon he will give us a recital including music from art song to opera to spirituals at 4:00 in the Art Gallery. Make plans now!

This year’s Passion concert features 3 works, 2 familiar and one new. The Chamber Singers will perform Bach’s famous motet Jesu, Meine Freude with an orchestral ensemble; the strings of the orchestra will play Samuel Barber’s famous Adagio; and the Sanctuary Choir will sing a relatively new work by a British composer, Howard Goodall’s Eternal Light – A Requiem. This is planned to be a powerful and passionate hour of music for the last few days of Lent, preparing us for the Festival of the Resurrection on Easter.

Our Artists in Residence for three years now, the CSBQ plays in worship about once a month, as well as special occasions. One of those occasions is an annual concert. This year’s concert will be on the afternoon of January 29 at 4:00 PM.

You are invited to our Advent Concert featuring the Hennepin Sanctuary Choir and Orchestra. At 11:00 AM on Sunday, December 11, enter into the Advent season as Hennepin musicians share works by Bach, Brahms and Custer.  Invite a friend! Bach: Magnificat in… (keep reading…)

Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church and Minnesota Public Radio present New York Polyphony in a Holiday Concert. The event will be held in the sanctuary of Hennepin Church on Friday, December 9th at 7:30 PM.

Fri November 11th, 2011 7:00 PM Three amazing Indie-rock groups, all in the same space. FREE! 11/11/11 Tarlton (7pm) Tarlton is fairly new in the local scene. Their album, “Learn by Example” came out in 2010. They’ll be starting the… (keep reading…)

Mark your calendars now and join the gang at 7 PM on Oct. 16 for more poetry, more jazz from our newly expanded group of musicians. If you haven’t heard the sextet, you’re in for a real treat. We’re only doing two performances a year these days, so you don’t want to miss out.

For the second time, the group Kleine Kammermusik Ensemble will give a concert at Hennepin in support of the Dignity Center. The participating artists include Holly Ager (violin), Mark Seerup (oboe), Shari Speer (soprano), Amy Morris (flute), Ewa Bujak (viola), and Don Livingston (keyboards). They will be playing rarely heard music by Samuel and Charles Wesley, as well as Dr. Charles Burney, Joseph Haydn, J. C. Bach, and Georg Philipp Telemann.

Marking the 10-Year Anniversary of September 11th, a concert is being held at the Basilica of St. Mary. Participants include a 100-voice choir from the Downtown Interfaith Community (including Hennepin’s Sanctuary Choir), Interfaith Chorus of Minneapolis Children, Minneapolis Youth Chorus and the Minnesot Sinfonia. Featuring Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, works by Paulus and Mendoza and readings and prayers from the Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Universalist traditions. Free and open to the public.