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The 76th Annual Carmel Bach Festival
76th Annual Carmel Bach Fesitval
Saturday, July 13, 2013, 8:00 pm

The 76th Annual Carmel Bach Festival

Presented by Carmel Bach Festival

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The Carmel Bach Festival (CBF) will present its 76th Annual Festival, July 13 – 27, 2013, in various venues throughout Carmel, Monterey, Pebble Beach and Salinas, California. This year's festival features over 45 events including main series concerts, recitals performed on period instruments, and a Music and Ideas series. Music Director and Conductor Paul Goodwin, in partnership with artistic leadership, has programmed a Festival based on the connection between French music and J.S. Bach.

Highlights of the 2013 Festival include:

  • An opening night concert that includes works by J.S. Bach, George Frederic, Handel, Gabriel Fauré's glorious Requiem and a commissioned piece by Thea Musgrave. Musgrave, an 84-year old female Scottish composer, has written both opera and classical music and was a student of Nadia Boulanger and Aaron Copland.
  • Wednesday evening concerts, once again at the magnificent Carmel Mission Basilica, currently celebrating the 300th Anniversary of founder Father Junipero Serra.
  • Pianist Stephen Prutsman joined by members of the Bach Festival orchestra for a Jazz crossover concert on Thursday evenings – back by popular demand. Prutsman will also present a lecture series on the effects of music on the brain, and the importance of music in healing conditions such as autism, Alzheimer's and PTSD.
  • Fabulous selections of French music, including Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and highlights from Bizet's Carmen and the Festival debut of Canadian soprano24 Dominique LaBelle
  • A celebration of David Gordon, our beloved dramaturge, in his 25th season with Carmel Bach Festival. Gordon, a noted Bach historian, is also the author of an upcoming biography of the festival's founders, Dene Denny and Hazel Watrous.