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The final program in the Smithsonian Chamber Players three-part “Brilliance of the Baroque” concert series at The Theatre at Washington, Va., takes place on Saturday, April 18, at 8 p.m. It features Johann Sebastian Bach’s masterpiece A Musical Offering which was dedicated to King Frederick the Great of Prussia in the year 1747.
The program opens with talk by Kenneth Slowik, the noted Bach interpreter who is artistic director of both Smithsonian Chamber Music Society and the Oberlin Baroque performance Institute. Slowik will discuss Bach’s life and works, unraveling some of the complexities of Bach’s music techniques, and then turning to a closer examination of the Musical Offering itself. This will be followed by a performance of the entire Musical Offering in which Slowik is joined by flautist Michael Lynn of the Oberlin Conservatory faculty, violinists Ryan Brown and Risa Browder, and cellist John Moran.
Bach is the undisputed master of the art of counterpoint. Slowik notes that “from the simple two-part inventions to the complexities of the Art Fugue, Bach combines mathematically precise structures with an unfailing sense of architecture to produce beautifully moving music that continues to fascinate nearly 350 years after it was written.”
Few pieces of music have as interesting a background as Bach’s Musical Offering. In May 1747, Bach traveled from
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