A grant of $12,000 from the E. Rhodes and Leon B. Carpenter Foundation will help bring five gifted performers to the 21st annual Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, June 9-16, 2013. ... read more about Bach Festival Receives Grant from Carpenter Foundation
A German Bach specialist once observed that the music of Johann Sebastian Bach can be played successfully on modern or on period instruments, “but what you can’t recreate is the ... read more about A Community Celebrates 20 Years of Bach
Over 300 years may have passed since Johann Sebastian Bach swept a stage in Germany, but the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival will stir its strings and winds for the 20th ... read more about Bach Festival Marks 20 Years with Grammy Winner Eugene Friesen
The works of Mozart, Hummel, Haydn, Loewe and others will be on display Sunday, May 6, at 3 p.m. in Martin Chapel, as 11 local students showcase their talents in ... read more about Recital Showcases Area Youth
A program connecting the organ works of Johan Sebastian Bach and the vocal arrangements of Negro spirituals will create “a spiritual connection spanning the genres,” March 21, at 7 p.m., ... read more about Historic Recital Connects Bach and Negro Spirituals
“Great music. Great musicians. Nourishment for the soul.” Artistic director and conductor Kenneth J. Nafziger made these promises to the audience at the start of the 19th annual Shenandoah Valley ... read more about 19th EMU Festival Pairs Bach and Mozart
It’s a match made in musical heaven. Two classical giants will meet on the Lehman Auditorium stage at Eastern Mennonite University, not to compete against but to complement each other ... read more about Bach, Mozart Intersect at EMU Festival
The near-capacity crowds that filled Lehman Auditorium were treated to the soaring harmonies that filled the air at the 18th annual Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival. Versatile musician John McCutcheon combines ... read more about Concertgoers Pack Out 18th Annual Bach Festival
A concert to benefit one of the area’s premier cultural events, the annual Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, will be held 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17, at the Bridgewater Church of ... read more about Bach Festival Winter Concert Scheduled for Jan. 17
Fanfares and flip-flops. Handel’s massive story of Samson and two short works written within the past year. A call to hope arising from the ashes of New York’s World Trade ... read more about Bach Festival combines serious and casual, sobering and hopeful