Orchestra of St. Luke’s to Launch Online ‘Bach at Home 2020’ Series

By David Salazar

The Orchestra of St. Luke’s has reconceived the June performances of its OSL Bach Festival as a series of curated online concerts entitled “Bach at Home 2020.”

The concert series will be released on the company’s official website this June and will feature such artists as Principal Conductor Bernard Labadie, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, cellist Pieter Wispelwey, harpsichordists Jean Rondeau and Pierre Hantaï, soprano Amanda Forsythe, pianist and speaker Pedja Mužijević, and composer and mentor Anna Clyne, among others. There will also be four emerging composers selected for the OSL’s 2020 DeGaetano Composition Institute.

“People turn to Bach’s music for comfort and solace, insight and inspiration. The themes of the original 2020 OSL Bach Festival were The Musical Offering and the music of Bach’s sons. Generosity and family are values on which we will rely as our society recovers and rebuilds. In that spirit, OSL will create a curated online series, Bach at Home 2020. Music has the power to connect people across physical distance and we hope this musical offering will do just that,” said James Roe, President and Executive Director of OSL, in a press release.

Full details for the online festival will be unveiled in the weeks to come.

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