Bach News

To find a unique voice on so ubiquitous an instrument as the acoustic guitar is quite an achievement: to do so within a centuries old idiom where the instrument has no real history is truly remarkable.

Among other projects, he's happily building his own concert organ out of 'junk' left over from a career that began as an apprentice in 1958 with Paul Hufner.

The following students made the fall semester dean's list at Winona State University in Minnesota: from Brown Deer, Charles Bach, Nathan Seefeldt and Samuel Bach ; from Mequon, Alexandra Dewey and Claire Exley ; and from Thiensville, Margot Friedli .

TWO talented young musicians will be performing the summer concert at St Andrew's Church in Caversham Heights on June 22. Rachel Wick on harp and Tom Hancox on flute are known as the Antara Duo and will perform music from JS Bach to Piazolla during the event.

Union City Chamber Players returns to St. John's for its fourth performance this season, a Father's Day program celebrating family ties.

Concert enthusiasts will want to mark their calendars for the Opening Benefit and Reception of America's oldest continuing summer chamber music festival, Music Mountain an exciting program of Music Mountain premieres including: Bach: Suite No.

The 1891 Fredonia Opera House sang once again with the music of the Baroque era Friday night with the 18th annual Bach & Beyond Baroque Music Festival under the direction of Maestro Grant Cooper.

Andre Feriante, the Italian-born guitarist known for blending music and poetry of Bach, Leonard Cohen, Lorca and Rumi, will give a Father's Day concert at the Dungeness Valley Lutheran Church, 925 N. Sequim Ave., this Sunday.

Community celebrations are at the heart of summertime life, with this weekend offering the Cottage Grove Firemen's Festival, Jazz in the Park, and Juneteenth Day.

'After throat cancer turned my father's voice into a whisper, I spoke for him until he died': Hilary Reyl's moving tale of a daughter's devotion One day in 1974, when I am seven years old, my father and I meet a new neighbour in the street who tells us that hearing dad's piano playing through the open window of our flat soothes her baby.

In 1947, blind organist Helmut Walcha made the first recording for Deutsche Grammophon's new early-music label, Archiv.

The ensemble will perform "St. Matthew Passion" at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Edna Rizley Griffin Concert Hall at the University Center for the Arts, 1400 Remington St. Tickets: $20 for adults and $5 for students, not including fees.

Friday-Saturday. This is a slow week for classical music - that time in between the regular season and summer season - so the joint presentation of Bach's is particularly welcome.

Sarasa will performa program of Baroque music on Sunday, June 23, at 7:30 p.m., at Next Stage, 15 Kimball Hill.

When I first covered the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society two years ago, I attended five of the six programs - and was sorry I missed the sixth.

Jesse Mills, left, Rieko Aizawa and Raman Ramakrioshnan -- will join Jonathan Bagg for a performance of Stephen Hartke's "King of the Sun" on Saturday at First Church in Jaffrey.

The concert will be composed of both classical and semi-classical works. Among selections will be Prelude Sur L'Introit de Epiphanie , Premier Liver D'Rogue , Prelude and Fugue in G Major , Psalm - Prelude I, Op.32, No.

Birch Creek Music Performance Center brings international concert violinist Rachel Barton Pine to Door County to teach a June 27 master class to Birch Creek's Symphony students.

As has recently been observed, pianist AndrA s Schiff's six-concert survey of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach, presented jointly by the San Symphony and San Francisco Performances , will conclude this coming October.

The concert on November 12 will see Mr Kennedy celebrate the works of the German composer Bach and jazz legend Fats Waller.