Summer Arts Festival Thursday Night Indoor Concerts: Bach Cello Suites
Venue: Blacksburg Presbyterian Church, Blacksburg
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Organizations: Summer Arts Festival
Date: Thursday, July 21, 2022
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost: Free
The 2022 Summer Arts Festival continues their Thursday Night Indoor Concerts with Bach Cello Suites at the Blacksburg Presbyterian Church on Thursday, July 21, 2022.
On this evening, local cellist Benjamin Wyatt will perform three of Bach’s solo cello suites.
The suites, abandoned for more than a hundred years after their composition, were revived by the late Spanish cellist Pablo Casals in the early 20th century. Since that time, they have been staples of the cello repertoire.
Suites are collections of dances, generally prefaced by an introductory prelude. These French courtly dances include the allemande (French for “German”), the courante, the sarabande (originally a fast vulgar South American dance called the “zarabandeo” that morphed into a slow, stately dance by Bach’s time), and the gigue, which we known in English as “jig.”
Admission is free and open to the public.
The Summer Arts Festival is presented through the joint efforts of Virginia Tech's School of Performing Arts and the Town of Blacksburg. The Summer Arts Festival includes Friday night concerts on Henderson Lawn, classic films in the historic Lyric Theatre, an art exhibit in the Perspective Gallery in the Squires Student Center, and numerous special events such as Summer Solstice Fest, the Fourth of July celebration, and Steppin' Out street festival. New this year will be a series of Thursday night concerts at the Presbyterian Church including a performance of Mozart's Requiem, a production of "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder in Theatre 101 featuring actors from Virginia Tech and the community, and children's activities in the new campus Living Learning Community building.
All events of the Summer Arts Festival are free and open to the public.
For more information on the event and the Summer Arts Festival, visit: https://www.performingarts.vt.edu/performances/2022/07/sopa-safbachcellosuites.html or https://www.performingarts.vt.edu/summer-arts-festival.html.
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