Bach Week In Review

Bach Around The Clock has come to an end, and it was a wonderful week for us!  From our performances at Providence College and the John Carter Brown Library, to our more casual guerrilla-style performances in all kinds of places around the city, to the transformative experience of Bach To The Future III (the all night long Bach marathon at Brown University), we very much enjoyed spending our week steeped in Bach.

We also enjoyed seeing many of you in the audience, catching up with friends, meeting new friends, and providing small moments of musical beauty in unexpected places around the city.

In case you missed us, here are a couple of snapshots from the week:

CMW Players took to the stage at Providence College in attire fitting the spirit of October 31st!  We celebrated the changing of seasons with two of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and two of Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, in addition to a gorgeous Bach Cantata, featuring our friend Fred Jodry as soloist, and a Bach Concerto with student soloists.  (photo by Laura Cetilia)

With Halloween shenanigans behind us we performed the same program at the John Carter Brown Library on Brown University campus.  (photo by CMW parent Tresavan McClary)

As part of Bach Around Town Lisa Barksdale performed Bach’s E Major Partita for Solo violin at CAV Restaurant.

Chase Spruill performed selections from Bach’s D minor Partita for solo violin under the very resonant dome of the State House.  (photo by Lisa Barksdale)

For our third ArtPlace Inhabit event of the season CMW Players performed Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins in D Major with CMW students Alana Perez and Heather Arguenta as soloists at La Lupita Tacos Mexicanos.  (photo by Bryony Romer)

Bach to the Future III ran from 7:00 PM Friday November 6th all the way until 7:00 AM the following morning.  Around 4:15 AM Sebastian Ruth revived the audience with a lively performance of Bach’s Suite No. 1 played on the viola.  (photo by Lisa Barksdale)

Many many thanks to everyone who came out for any of these performances!  We have some exciting new projects in the future, so stay tuned and check the CMW Events Calendar to see what’s coming up next!

–Lisa Barksdale (Resident Musician)