Sebastian Bach News

Tippet Rise Art Center announces two online initiatives, adding to its website's expansive offerings of films, performances, interviews, podcasts, and photography. Brought about by the cancellation of the art center's seven-week summer series due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tippet Rise is launching a library of free music downloads in high resolution format and offering its audiences a monthly virtual concert series, Tippet Rise & Friends at Home, comprised of new video streams of past performances.

In honor of this year's graduating seniors from the 668 public and private schools across the Commonwealth, members of the Pops' brass and percussion sections participate in Massachusetts Commencement 2020

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will stream a performance of Beethoven's 5th Symphony.

Boston Pops has released information about their upcoming schedule!

Ars Lyrica Houston, the Grammy-nominated early  music ensemble, will broadcast its season finale on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and its website www.arslyricahouston.org on Saturday, May 16th, at 7:30 p.m. Johann Sebastian Bach's Phoebus and Pan was half of the original program, Bach Goes Greek, which was intended for the stage of Zilkha Hall. The broadcast will include soloists from a 2008 performance of the work as well as music and commentary from the artists who were slated to appear on the concert. 

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On April 12, Italian tenor and global music icon Andrea Bocelli gave a solo performance at the historic Duomo, the cathedral of Milan, Italy. Now, according to Deadline, the performance will be airing on PBS channels this week. The special will be titled, Andrea Bocelli: Music for Hope, A Great Performances Special.

In many places it is a tradition - sometimes going back more than 100 years - to perform a Bach Passion during the week before Easter. Many people all over the world regard it as an indispensable ritual to listen to or actually sing Bach's settings of the story of Jesus' Passion during Passiontide.

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs couldn't let the Easter weekend pass without a moment to share the glory and beauty of Bach's St John Passion. The Choirs had originally intended to perform this piece at Sydney Town Hall on Easter Saturday, but as the Covid-19 pandemic forced us all into isolation, they started working towards a plan to record a section for digital release this weekend instead.

Amid the current situation with COVID-19, Pennsylvania Ballet will postpone the remainder of the 2019-20 season, including April's production of Suspended in Time at the Merriam Theater and May's Breathtaking Balanchine at the Academy of Music. The postponement of these ballets will alter the programming for the 2020-21 season.

The program for today's live stream of the Bayerische Staatsorchester's 5th Academy Concert at 8 pm on STAATSOPER.TV had to be changed at short notice: 'In these times, the well-being of our employees is most important to us.

The Chicago area's 47th annual Bach Week Festival has announced details of its 2020 season of concerts in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, May 1 to May 30, 2020, including the Baroque music festival's first mainstage period-instrument program and its first concert in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood, among other events.

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine's Great Music in a Great Space concert series continues with a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion on Tuesday, March 31st at 7:30pm at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue (at 112th Street), Manhattan.

State Theatre New Jersey presents Complexions Contemporary Ballet in Bach to Bowie on Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at 8pm. The works featured in this program include Bach 25 and StarDust. Tickets range from $19-$49.

The Spreckels Organ Society will present an All Bach Celebration concert in honor of Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday (1685-1750). Celebrate with San Diego Civic Organist Raúl Prieto Ramírez on Sunday, March 22 at 2 p.m. at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park.

El joven pianista Pablo Suaste Cherizola interpretará música de cinco compositores considerados los más importantes de la música clásica: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Ravel y Liszt, en un recital que ofrecerá el sábado 29 de febrero a las 11:30 horas en el Salón de Recepciones del Museo Nacional de Arte (Munal), el cual estará abierto a todo público.

La compañía mexicano-española Mal Pelo presentará la pieza Bach proyecto escénico en el cual dialogan el movimiento y la obra del compositor alemán, en un espectáculo que se llevará a cabo por única vez el 1 de marzo en la Sala CCB del Centro Cultural del Bosque del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL).

Wildstreet released their anthemic new single 'Born To Be' today to all digital platforms. Last night, they kicked off their #KingsOfWorldTour in NYC at Knitting Factory Brooklyn. Along with touring the U.S. and Rockfest WI, the band has released dates in the United Kingdom including 'Call Of The Wild Festival, and one Canada. They will also join CrashDiet in Bogotá Colombia, Guadalajara and Mexico City in April.

The Handel and Haydn Society will perform one of the greatest works in Western classical music, Bach's St. Matthew Passion, on Friday, April 3 and Sunday, April 5 at Boston's Symphony Hall. Under the direction of Artistic Director Harry Christophers, the H+H Orchestra, Chorus, and Youth Choruses will deliver a moving and spiritual musical experience.