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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.
Helmuth Rilling (born 29 May 1933) is a German choral conductor and an academic teacher. He is the founder of the Gächinger Kantorei (1954), the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart (1965), the Oregon Bach Festival (1970), [1] the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart (1981) and other Bach Academies worldwide, as well as the "Festival Ensemble Stuttgart" (2001) and the "Junges Stuttgarter Bach Ensemble ...
An active correspondent with both of Bach's sons in Berlin, he published the first detailed biography of Bach in 1802, Bach: On Johann Sebastian Bach's Life, Art and Works: For Patriotic Admirers of True Musical Art, including an appreciation of Bach's keyboard and organ music and ending with the injunction, "This man, the greatest orator-poet ...
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 in organizing Bach in the Subways Day in Los Angeles. This was the first time an organizer other than Henderson worked on Bach in the Subways Day, and marked the ...
Bach Choir, Bach-Chor or Bachchor is the name of a number of organizations named after Johann Sebastian Bach, often performing his choral music exclusively, predominantly, or historically. Such organizations include:
The American Bach Soloists (ABS) is an American baroque orchestra based in the San Francisco Bay Area. [1] The orchestra was founded in Belvedere, California , in 1989. [ 2 ] Performers share music from Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries during the Classical era , including Handel , Vivaldi , and Mozart , with modern audiences.
Logo St. Thomas Church, 28 July 1950. The Bachfest Leipzig (Leipzig Bach Festival) is a music festival which takes place annually, in the month of June, [1] in the city of Leipzig, where J. S. Bach worked as the Thomaskantor from 1723 until his death in 1750.
ChicagoFest was a Chicago music festival established in 1978 by Mayor Michael Bilandic.It was a two-week event held annually at Navy Pier that featured sixteen separate stages, each sponsored by a national retail brand and a media sponsor compatible to the stage's format, e.g. Rock WLUP, Chicago Tribune Jazz, Miller Brewing Company Blues and WXRT, that broadcast live from the festival.