Johann Sebastian Bach – San Diego Story

SummerFest’s Sublime Spiritual Journey

By Ken Herman | August 5, 2019 |

Saturday’s La Jolla SummerFest program, “Songs of Heaven and Earth,” clustered major sacred works by J.S. Bach, Olivier Messaien and Gustav Mahler, a combination of composers I cannot recall appearing together on a previous SummerFest program, Both the musical progression and the spiritual journey proved unusually compelling.

Teutonic Treasure: Bach Collegium San Diego Plays the German Masters Before J. S. Bach

By Ken Herman | March 13, 2017 |

Doing its part to boost San Diego’s celebration of early music month, the Bach Collegium San Diego offered a concert of rare 17th-century German music—”Agony and Ecstasy: Bach’s Muses”—over the weekend of March 11 & 12, 2017 . . .