Posts Tagged ‘Ruben Valenzuela’
Bach Collegium San Diego Celebrates the English Baroque with a Concert of Purcell and Blow
To celebrate the 20th season of the Bach Collegium San Diego, Artistic Director Ruben Valenzuela presented a concert of music by John Blow and Henry Purcell on Saturday at All Souls’ Episcopal Church in Point Loma.
Read MoreSummerFest 2022 Explores the Bach Family and Their Wide Influences in Western Music
Beyond Bach, Sunday’s SummerFest 2022 program, offered a clever potpourri of works that inspired—or might have inspired—J. S. Bach, as well as a few works inspired by the Leipzig master himself.
Read MoreBach Collegium San Diego Premieres ‘El Mesías’–Handel’s Beloved Oratorio in Spanish
The Bach Collegium San Diego premiered ‘El Mesías’–its Spanish-language adaptation of G. F. Handel’s ‘Messiah’–in San Diego County and Baja California, Mexico, March 18 — 20, 2022.
Read MoreBach Collegium San Diego Offers a Rewarding Tribute to Christmas Music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
On December 19, 2021, Artistic Director Ruben Valenzuela and the Bach Collegium San Diego presented a concert devoted to Maarc-Antoine Charpentier’s music at All Souls’ Episcopal Church in Point Loma.
Read MoreLeipzig 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.
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