Bach News

Take a look at some of the best in photographs sent to the Warren Reporter during the week of May 13-17, 2013.

Arriving this week on Seattle stages: a play partly written in Esperanto, a romp with J.S. Bach and some of his musical rivals, and the latest Hedgebrook festival of new works by esteemed women dramatists.

The day I met Angelique Montes at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts , she walked into her teacher's office carrying her cello in a backpack.

Linda Draper, who grew into her music career surrounded by a family of musicians as a Hastings teenager, releases her new album "Edgewise" on May 21.

Whether we're listening to Bach or the blues, our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make us feel, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley.

More Beauty and the 3 B-sters!" an enjoyable family program of quartets, trios and duos by popular composers past and present will be presented Sunday, at 3 p.m., at The Hudson School, 601 Park Ave., Hoboken.

The Bach and Handel Chorale will perform a concert at the Tamaqua Community Arts Center , 125 Pine Street, Tamaqua, on Saturday, May 18.

Keely Schmerber, 16 year-old budding piano virtuoso, returns to Historic Rutherfurd Hall, Allamuchy, Sunday, May 19, at 3 p.m., in a solo concert to perform an evening of classical works by Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, and Scriabin.

The Perry County Lutheran Chorale is on their summer tour through Illinois and Indiana, with the theme "Sola Fide," and will perform at Zion Lutheran Church on Friday, May 31.

Boulder Symphony and Boulder Chorale play "Celebrations of Spring," with major works by Haydn, Schumann, Bach, and Bruckner.

Since the sudden illness in early March of conductor David Griggs-Janower , the Albany Pro Musica has been in flux.

It is a known fact that no conductor can ever interpret/perform a work precisely the way a composer imagined it.

Mother's Day this weekend - take mom out to hear some great jazz! This week, visiting stars include a swinging saxman, favorite ex-resident bassist, and sultry songbird, while local heroes dominate spring offerings.

The 21st season of the popular International Concerts opens at the Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery next Thursday with the return of the Chamber Ensemble of London.

Students, parents, siblings, and teachers packed Whispering Forest Elementary 's cafeteria for the school's Evening of the Arts program presented May 1. They filled chairs and lined the walls anxious to get a glimpse and pictures, of course, of their child, sibling, friend, or student playing a violin or cello or singing in the school's choir.

Pianist Simone Dinnerstein gained international success from her recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations , which ranked No.

The 106th Bethlehem Bach Festival continues through this weekend, highlighting two works not by Bach, but celebratory in their own right.

It takes a great musician to be able to hold a large audience's attention with one acoustic instrument and nothing else, but that's what Nigel Kennedy does, effortlessly.

Ordinarily, when the first half of a piano recital consists of two substantial works such as Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue followed by Beethoven's A flat Sonata Op 110 , it demands full critical focus.

The oratorio is full of dramatic effects -- not just the crowd's cries to the false gods of Baal, but also the more contemplative moments such as the prophet's sorrowing aria "It Is Enough." An unadorned concert performance can conjure up movie-like images of the story from famine and lamentation at the start to the final rejoicing in the Lord.