Posts Tagged ‘Angela Young Smucker’
Leipzig Idol: Bach Collegium San Diego Reprises the Musical Competition Between J.S. Bach and His Rivals
For the Sunday, May 16, Bach Collegium San Diego virtual concert, Artistic Director Ruben Valenzuela provided an intriguing title: Bach and His Rivals: The Leipzig Auditions.
Read MoreBach Collegium San Diego Brings Compelling Period “Messiah” to The Conrad in La Jolla
The December 22, 2019, performance by the Bach Collegium San Diego of G. F. Handel’s complete “Messiah” in the Baker-Baum Concert Hall of the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla benefited greatly from the new hall’s splendid acoustics, high ceiling and clean sight lines. Of even greater import, the Bach Collegium’s fresh, insightful approach to 18th-century period performance practice gave it uncanny communicative powers to a 21st-century audience.
Read MorePro Arte Voices Shines with Schütz and Copland: the Alpha and the Omega
Patrick Walders and his Pro Arte Voices explored the themes of creation and death in a compelling choral concert “Beginning to End” presented on March 18, 2016, in Pacific Beach . . .
Read MoreBach Collegium San Diego: ‘Messiah’ Redeemed
The Bach Collegium San Diego brought its dazzling period performances of ‘Messiah’ last weekend (December 5-7) to three different venues in San Diego County . . .
Read MoreBach Collegium San Diego: J.S. Bach Finds His Roots
I can recall a time when J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos and a few oratorios by G. F. Handel were all a classical music aficionado needed to know about “early music,” but Ruben Valenzuela’s Bach Collegium San Diego brings international standards of today’s period music performance to San Diego. Their most recent outing was a celebration of German Baroque choral music of J.S. Bach and his Leipzig predecessors . . .
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