SARAH ROTHENBERG:
THE ART OF THE FUGUE
One Thursday, April 22 at 7 – 8:30 P.M.
Address to be given to subscribers
J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Klavier, a series of Preludes
and Fugues covering all the major and minor keys, is a monument of the
keyboard repertoire. Its enormous influence extends to the compositions
of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Debussy and continues today. The 20th-century
master Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his own series of preludes and fugues
in direct response to the works of Bach. Pianist Sarah Rothenberg leads
this session from the piano, performing examples from both Bach and
Shostakovich, discussing the form of the fugue and illuminating its
ingenious architectural structures. Ms. Rothenberg is artistic director
of Da Camera and a frequent performer at New York’s Lincoln Center
as well as in leading European cities. She recently received the Medal
of Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government.
