BACH'S LUNCH ORGAN SERIES

Bach’s Lunch is a lecture-recital series featuring organ music of history’s greatest composers. These free lectures begin at noon in the WartburgChapel Commons with recitals following in the Wartburg Chapel sanctuary. Participants are invited to bring their lunch or preorder a box lunch to eat at the lecture.

Wartburg College is named after the Wartburg Castle, which sits atop the hillsides of Eisenach, Germany, birthplace of J.S. Bach.

2023-24 Lecture/Recital Dates

  • Sept. 15, 2023: Michael Elsbernd, St. John’s Lutheran Church, Des Moines
  • Oct. 13: 2023: Karen Black, Wartburg College
  • Nov. 10, 2023: Miriam Zach, Iowa State University
  • Feb. 9, 2024: Jeremy Bankson, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Dublin, Ohio
  • March 8, 2024: Members of the Cedar Valley Chapter of the American Guild of Organists 
  • April 12, 2024: Wartburg College Organ Students

TO ORDER A BOX LUNCH

Please contact carrie.church@wartburg.edu or 319-352-8300 by the Wednesday prior to the recital.