Virtual BachTalks
Once a month, we invite you to join us for a virtual BachTalk! The topics will be all over the map and you can choose to login to ZOOM to take part of the live event, or check here afterwards for resources and the recording.
Once a month, we invite you to join us for a virtual BachTalk! The topics will be all over the map and you can choose to login to ZOOM to take part of the live event, or check here afterwards for resources and the recording.
BachTalk 2: Digging in the Sonoma Bach Archives
Thursday, June 11, 7PM
Music Director Bob Worth takes us on a whirlwind look back at nearly 30 years of Sonoma Bach's concerts, tours, collaborations and special events. Highlights include our inaugural year (1991-92); our first Bach Festival (1995-96); our Italy tours (1999 and 2001); our millennial year (Bach: Christmas Oratorio and St. Matthew Passion); our Germany tour (2005); our independence from SSU (2010); and the opening of first the Green Music Center (2012) and then Schroeder Hall (2014). For long-time members, it'll be a fun stroll down memory lane; for newer members of our community, it'll be a chance to get to learn a bit about our history. There'll be plenty of musical examples.
Thursday, June 11, 7PM
Music Director Bob Worth takes us on a whirlwind look back at nearly 30 years of Sonoma Bach's concerts, tours, collaborations and special events. Highlights include our inaugural year (1991-92); our first Bach Festival (1995-96); our Italy tours (1999 and 2001); our millennial year (Bach: Christmas Oratorio and St. Matthew Passion); our Germany tour (2005); our independence from SSU (2010); and the opening of first the Green Music Center (2012) and then Schroeder Hall (2014). For long-time members, it'll be a fun stroll down memory lane; for newer members of our community, it'll be a chance to get to learn a bit about our history. There'll be plenty of musical examples.
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BachTalk 1: Alt Bach
Bob Worth, Sonoma Bach Music Director
J.S. Bach’s music is so structurally sturdy that it can survive—even thrive—when re-orchestrated and re-arranged, manipulated and popularized, hung over and thrown down in a myriad of ways. In Alt Bach, we’ll consider and
listen to many different takes on Bach, from ‘Switched on Bach’ to the Swingle Singers, from Stokowski’s transcriptions
to Uri Caine’s iconoclastic take on the ‘Goldberg Variations’, from piano arrangements to pop songs. And we’ll consider what it is at the core of Bach’s music which allows it to show through—often even to be illuminated by--
such disparate transformations and indignities.
Bob Worth, Sonoma Bach Music Director
J.S. Bach’s music is so structurally sturdy that it can survive—even thrive—when re-orchestrated and re-arranged, manipulated and popularized, hung over and thrown down in a myriad of ways. In Alt Bach, we’ll consider and
listen to many different takes on Bach, from ‘Switched on Bach’ to the Swingle Singers, from Stokowski’s transcriptions
to Uri Caine’s iconoclastic take on the ‘Goldberg Variations’, from piano arrangements to pop songs. And we’ll consider what it is at the core of Bach’s music which allows it to show through—often even to be illuminated by--
such disparate transformations and indignities.