Isn’t it great that the spring solstice coincides with the birthday of J.S. Bach, 327 years ago?
How much other music is as endlessly versatile as Bach’s, which has survived the Stokowskian Symphony of 1,000 steamroller, getting hooked on Disco, being run through Moog synthesizers, and blithely do-wopped by the Swingles Singers.
John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.
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There are several new and notable pure-Bach discs just out, which I have to listen to a bit more before I can review.
So, in the 21st century mashup spirit, here is violinist Lara St. John and the Great Lake Swimmers with Bach’s Partita No. 1 in B minor BWV 1002 by way of Penguin Cafe’s Music for a Found Harmonium at the Grand Theatre in London, Ont., courtesy of CBC’s Q:
John Terauds
John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.
Latest posts by John Terauds (see all)
- Classical Music 101: What Does A Conductor Do? - June 17, 2019
- Classical Music 101 | What Does Period Instrument Mean? - May 6, 2019
- CLASSICAL MUSIC 101 | What Does It Mean To Be In Tune? - April 23, 2019
