Can you imagine the pressure of growing up in the BACH family?? Johann Sebastian Bach carried on a tradition that was nurtured by his father, uncles, cousins, and other ancestors. The musician also had several children who followed in his footsteps, and some achieved great success. You’ll hear music by various members of the Bach family on Sunday Baroque this Father’s Day weekend.
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During the baroque era in the 17th and 18th centuries, people didn’t have the ability to travel as far and wide as we do today. Anything unfamiliar was seen as “exotic” or “foreign” and could be a source of great fascination and inspiration for baroque era musicians. Georg Philipp Telemann portrayed his impressions of the Swiss, the Muscovites, the Turks and the Portuguese in his FOLK OVERTURE on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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As a little girl, Jeannette Sorrell was so eager to make music that she signed herself up for free piano lessons. The only problem is, she didn’t tell her parents … and she found a unique way to get around the little problem that they didn’t own a piano for her to practice on. You’ll hear Jeannette Sorrell playing a Concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach on a real instrument on Sunday Baroque this week!
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