EVENT
Religious Struggle in the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach
- Title:
- Religious Struggle in the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach
- Presenter:
- Miranda Wilson
- Affiliations:
- Lionel Hampton School of Music
- Date:
- 2015-10-13
- Academic Year:
- 2015/16
- Description:
- The music of J. S. Bach has such universal appeal because it speaks to universal human experience. Suffering, alienation, death, yearning, redemption: these are the big questions Bach addresses in his sacred vocal music. This year’s Idaho Bach Festival (October 15-17) features some of Bach’s most heart-rending settings of religious texts: “Lass, o Welt, mich aus Verachtung in betrübter Einsamkeit” (“Leave me, o scornful world, in troubled loneliness”) and “Ich habe genug” (“I have enough”). This presentation will explore Bach’s musical treatment of serious religious subject matter in these compositions and will include a performance of movements from his Six Suites for Solo Cello.
- Biography:
- Miranda Wilson is assistant professor of cello and double bass at the Lionel Hampton School of Music, University of Idaho. She is co-artistic director of the Idaho Bach Festival.
- Video Link:
- https://youtu.be/gZIlYIvxJFc
- Original Link:
- http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/calendar/religious-struggle-of-johann-sebastian-bach
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- Citation:
- "Religious Struggle in the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach", Renfrew Colloquium Archive, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/mric/items/mric2015-16-021.html