Monthly Archives: April 2013

Festival Preview

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv49QQsXRtA&w=560&h=315] Over the next few weeks, I’ll be posting much more frequently about the repertoire for the 106th Bethlehem Bach Festival.  There is much beautiful music, wonderful fellowship, and stunning artistry on tap for this year’s Festival, as we celebrate 30 years of Greg Funfgeld’s visionary artistic leadership.  The schedule for the Festival follows:… Continue Reading »

A Chat with Morten Lauridsen

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-lNHdMU0y8&w=560&h=315] I recently read Roger Ebert’s elegiac last review for the Chicago Sun Times.  It was a review of Terrance Malick’s To the Wonder, which I’m eager to see, but something Ebert said in the final paragraph really struck me: There will be many who find “To the Wonder” elusive and too effervescent. They’ll be… Continue Reading »