This post brings you some exciting news: An anonymous donor has come forward to offer a matching challenge grant of up to $2,000. That means that when you donate now, a contribution of equal value comes from an unnamed supporter, effectively doubling the impact of your giving. If you give $10, it’s matched by another $10 …
Author: Bach Around The Clock
100 Days Until BATC 2018!
We’re 100 days out from BATC 2018, and excited to share the news! We’ve kept many aspects of BATC from the previous year: it will be held once more at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church on Regent Street in Madison, will be recorded and live-streamed by the crew from Audio for the Arts, will open with …
EMA Grant Awarded to BATC!
It is with joy and pride that we announce that BATC has been awarded an Outreach Grant from Early Music America, for next year’s event. Our goal is to make BATC as widely accessible as possible. This award will help fund the live streaming which enables people to view it remotely. In March 2017 people viewed …
Glowing Review of BATC IV, from The Well-Tempered Ear
Thank you to Jake Stockinger, for your attendance, your positive feedback, and the many photos you took with that silent-shutter, non-flash camera of yours. BATC participants should indeed take pride in the event we helped create: 9½ hours of Sonatas, Cantatas, Toccatas, Partitas, Concertos, Fantasias, Preludes & Fugues, Chorales, and more, everything from ‘Minuet in …
Broadcast on WORT Thursday morning!
Rich Samuels, host of ‘Anything Goes’ on WORT 89.9 FM, will broadcast a recording of the Brandenburg Concerto #3, at 7:08 am on Thursday, March 23, 2017. The recording is from a live performance from BATC 2017, featuring Kangwon Kim, Nathan and Gillian Giglierano, violins; Micah Behr, Marika Fischer Hoyt, and Ilana Schroeder, violas; Martha …
Early Morning Tuning
The day began bright and early, at 7:30. Tim Farley showed up at St. Andrew’s, a man with a mission: to tune the upright piano, the grand piano, and the clavichord, before Ken Stancer arrived at 10am to practice on the organ.
Today’s The Day; It’s Showtime!
It’s March 18, and all the months of planning, preparation, rehearsal and promotion are culminating today! We’re going *most* of the way around the clock with Bach, starting at 12 noon and ending at 9:30 pm. Join us in person at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, at 1833 Regent Street in Madison, or tune in via …
BATC visits WPR!
This afternoon, four BATC players headed to the Buck Studio, at the WPR station in Madison. Host Norman Gilliland conducted a relaxed yet very informative interview, and the ensemble, with the self-dubbed name of The Fugal Players, played Contrapunctus I and VI from the Art of the Fugue. It went well, and we let listeners know …
WORT offers feature article on BATC
Madison’s excellent community radio station, WORT, just added a feature article on BATC to their website. WORT is contributing several of its classical music hosts: Rich Samuels, Alan Muirhead, and John Barker, to serve as M.C. during Bach Around The Clock. For those who can’t get to St. Andrew’s on Saturday, WORT will carry audio/video live streaming …
Another shout out from The Well-Tempered Ear
Madison boasts more classical music activity than any city of this size could reasonably expect. Keeping track of it all is Jacob Stockinger, the astute and insightful blogger of The Well-Tempered Ear. He first announced this year’s BATC festival, on January 20, 2017 – today he published a follow-up. Click here to see it.