Bach for Strings
General Event Information
Event Category:
Live Music: Classical
Price:
$23 general, $17 senior, $6 student, $3 youth.
Dates and Times:
February 23, 7:30PM-9:30PM; (7:30 pm to 9:30 pm)
Artist/Group:
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The Baroque Festival presents an evening of works by the great Johann Sebastian Bach and some Mozart, performed by a quartet of strings with harp! The Galax Quartet is modeled after an early version of the string quartet and consists of two violins, cello, and viola da gamba, a configuration developed by 18th-century composer and gamba virtuoso Carl Friedrich Abel. Galax is joined by acclaimed historic and folk harpist Cheryl Ann Fulton. Bach's famous Toccata in D minor will open the first half of the show, played on triple harp (Cheryl Ann Fulton). It is followed by the odd-numbered fugues of the 'Art of Fugue', played by the Galax Quartet with some harp continuo. As says the group's director, Roy Whelon: "Performing the Art of the Fugue in any setting --- whether touching down on a few representative fugues and canons in a classroom situation or performing the whole thing in concert (all fifteen fugues along with the four massive canons) --- is always exciting, cleansing and salutary." The second half will begin with fugues from Bach's Well-Tempered-Clavier as arranged by Mozart half a century later, and the program concludes with some of Wheldon's own 'loose canons'. |
Venue Information
Venue:
Holy Cross Church
Address:
126 High Street
City:
Santa Cruz
State:
CA
Zip Code:
95060
Country:
United States
Telephone:
(831) 479-6154
Venue Map:
Presenting Organization
Telephone:
831-457-9693
Email Address:
Designation:
not-for-profit
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