San Francisco-born Lara Downes has become world renowned for her take on Bach’s classic Goldberg Variations. She plays her reimagined piece today at 10:30 a.m. at Sunday Chatter at The Kosmos (1715 Fifth Street NW). Read about it in this week’s Performance Preview.
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V.25 No.27 | 07/07/2016
Courtesy of Bo Huang
Event Horizon
Early Modernism and the Good Old Baroque
Sunday, Jul 17: Chatter Sunday: Joe Johnson and Ashley Vandiver
Featuring music by Bach.
V.25 No.2 | 01/14/2016
Bibliotheque National de France
Event Horizon
Bach to the Future
Saturday, Jan 16: St. John's Bach Project
Pianist Amy Greer performs the French Suite No. 6 in E major, BWV 817 and more.
V.24 No.47 | 11/19/2015
Event Horizon
Winter's Solemn Song
Saturday, Nov 28: Annual Winter Solstice Concert
Bach Violin Concerto in A minor, Cantata BWV 151, a selection of beautiful Renaissance motets of the season and recent music from Irsee Monastery in Bavaria.
V.24 No.42 | 10/15/2015
courtesy of the artist
Event Horizon
Delights of a Musical Garden
Sunday, Oct 25: Chatter Sunday: Gardening at Gropius House
A Chatter Sunday event featuring "Gardening at Gropius House" by Neil Rolnick.
V.23 No.52 | 12/25/2014
Tavis Ford
Show Up!
Beginning to See the Light
Six shows to banish the winter darkness
Show Up! delivers deets on six darkness-banishing gigs happening in Burque this week.
Photo by Andrea Bucheli
Performance Preview
Bach to the Future
Pianist brings modern touch to a centuries-old classic
Most kids don't relish the thought of spending their entire Saturday glued to a piano bench. (It sounds like cruel, Victorian child torture if you ask me.) But that wasn't the case for Lara Downes, who grew up in San Francisco and began playing regularly at the age of 3. "I didn't know there was anything different," says Downes. "I always loved it, I never really wanted to do anything else."
