Michael’s Appearances!
Last updated on March, 2025.
PIPEDREAMS host Michael Barone makes occasional in-person guest appearances here and there. Below are some upcoming involvements:
On March 15, morning and afternoon, Michael Barone will be host for the annual Before Bach’s Birthday Bash, five free hour-long concerts of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, presented at five different Saint Paul (MN) churches. A host of mostly win Cities performers will present a wide variety of music. The first hour will be broadcast live on YourClassicalMPR stations. For the other four concerts, you need to be there! 😊
9AM – Gloria Dei Lutheran (700 Snelling Avenue South)
10:30AM – Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church (1900 Wellesley Ave.)
1PM – St. Thomas More Catholic Parish (Summet Avenue at Lexington)
2:30PM - St. Clement Episcopal Church (901 Portland Avenue)
4PM – House of Hope Presbyterian Church (797 Summit Avenue)
Pipedreams host Michael Barone teams up with Minneapolis organist Stephen Hamilton for a performance of The Stations of the Cross/Le Chemin de la Croix by Marcel Dupré. The concert will take place at Wesley United Methodist Church (400 Iowa Avenue) in Muscatine, IA on Friday, March 21, 2025 at 7PM. This sequence of fourteen meditations was inspired by intense and emotive texts of Paul Claudel that describe the procession of Christ to Calvary. Dupré first improvised this music but later wrote down his thoughts, creating a powerful artistic interpretation of a moment from the Passiontide. Along with accompanying projections of artwork depicting the Stations, Barone will read English translations of the Claudel texts and Hamilton will play the church’s recent C.B. Fisk pipe organ (Op. 153). The program is free to all.
On Sunday, March 30 at 2PM, Pipedreams host Michael Barone teams up with Duluth-area organist Charles Sundquistfor another performance of The Stations of the Cross/Le Chemin de la Croix by Marcel Dupré. This event takes place at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary (2801 East Fourth Street) in Duluth, MN, and feature’s the Cathedral’s 34-rank 1988 Robert Sipe pipe organ.
Check back here for future announcements!
