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    • 2025-2026 Concerts >
      • The Rise of Polyphony
      • Music's Renaissance
      • A Three-Nation Celebration
      • Exploring the 18th Century
      • Partsong in the Romantic Era
      • Johannes Brahms and the Geometry of Hope
      • Music for Modern Times
    • Donate today!
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    • Tickets
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    • Board of Directors and Staff
    • Mission Statement
  • Our Ensembles
    • Sonoma Bach Choir
    • Circa 1600
    • Green Mountain Consort
    • Live Oak Baroque Orchestra
  • Support
    • Donate
    • Sponsor a Singer!
    • Escrip & Amazon Smile
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        • Live Oak Baroque Orchestra
        • Music for these Distracted Times - Barefoot All-Stars
        • Agave Baroque American Originals
        • Bach's Long Walk to Lübeck - Anne Laver, organ
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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.  
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