Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Bach Festival Society was founded in 1935 at Rollins College to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach's birth by presenting the composer's orchestral and choral music to the public "for its enlightenment, education, pleasure, and enjoyment" [7] at Knowles Memorial Chapel.
The then Baldwin-Wallace Festival Choir and Orchestra presented the first Bach Festival in June 1933 and has continued on an annual basis ever since. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In 2007, the nation's oldest Bach Festival, The Bethlehem , and Baldwin Wallace performed together for BW's 75th anniversary of the festival. [ 10 ]
African Festival of the Arts; American Spanish Dance and Music Festival [10]; Celtic Fest Chicago; Chicago Humanities Festival; Fiesta Del Sol Pilsen; Lebanese Food Festival
The Grant Park Music Festival (formerly the Grant Park Concerts) is a ten-week classical music concert series held annually in Chicago, Illinois, United States. [1] It features the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra and Grant Park Chorus along with guest performers and conductors, and is one of the only free outdoor classical-music concert series in ...
Oct. 12—In May, Boulder Bach Festival Week offered fans of Baroque, chamber and classical music consecutive days of performances by international and Colorado-based talent.
The format of this concert was immensely popular and became a Christmas tradition [10] in the Chicago area. By 1985 Music of the Baroque was the largest, fully professional music organization devoted solely to the performance of 16th, 17th, and 18th-century choral and instrumental music.
This, along with coverage from Time Out New York, [7] led to "Bach hopping' – fans travelled from performance to performance, taking pictures and shooting video. [ 8 ] While beginning work on Bach in the Subways Day 2014, Henderson was approached by Los Angeles -based classical music enthusiast and photographer Jeehyun Lee, who was interested ...
After some back-and-forth, Riot Fest remained in Chicago's Douglass Park. Here is our recap of the annual punk rock festival. The Best, The Mess, And The Rest: Riot Fest 2024