Prelude C sharp Major from the well tempered claviers

Um concerto com piano, guitarra, baixo, bateria, flauta-doce, executando o Pqueno Livro de Anna Magdalena de J. S. Bach. Será executado na MACRISAN.

The Spreckels Organ is the musical soul of San Diego, and the largest outdoor musical instrument in the world. Free Sunday concerts at 2pm are a weekly dose of passion for music and life with San Diego Civic Organist Raúl Prieto Ramírez. Experience musical excellence at an all-Bach concert in honor of Johann Sebastian Bach’s birthday, Sunday, March 22 at 2 p.m. at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park. No-cost admission to this unique setting is your gift from the City of San Diego and the Spreckels Organ Society.

Continuing our 49-year old tradition, the Orchestra and Chorus of Emmanuel Music presents Bach’s astounding sacred works, in the liturgical setting for which they were intended. The work will be presented as the culmination of the 10 am service at Emmanuel Church, conducted by Artistic Director Ryan Turner.

Called “a jewel of the winter arts season,” this series offers Bach’s English Suites on harpsichord in the intimate Lindsey Chapel. Why the designation “English”? We don’t really know beyond some – less than fascinating – academic conjecture. Certainly Bach himself didn’t call them that. In grandeur and scope, the Suites eclipse the more intimate “French” Suites heard on the Lindsey Chapel Series a few years ago. Beyond the standard suite movements (Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, and Glgue) and the Prelude, the choice of additional dance movements is quite varied. The English historian, Charles Sanford Terry, wrote of the English Suites: “Their pervading tone is of happy humor and exuberant good nature”. That point might be debatable, but we can agree that engagement with this superb repertoire presents a welcome respite from the challenges of Contemporary Life. – Michael Beattie, curator