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By Wendy Weinberg
Special to the Rappahannock News
The Smithsonian at Little Washington chamber music series brings to the Theatre at Washington, Virginia, another concert of music by Johann Sebastian , Bach on Saturday, April 25 at 8 p.m.
This is the final concert in a series of four. Each concert includes the “obbligato keyboard” and, in this concluding concert, Kenneth Slowik will play the harpsichord and Marc Oestrube, the violin.
Slowik is a much-recorded and highly acclaimed instrumentalist and conductor, as well as the artistic director of the Smithsonian Chamber Players, and an authority on music of the Baroque period.
As background for the current series of concerts reflecting the “brilliance of the Baroque,” Slowik writes, “Johann Sebastian Bach’s championship of the harpsichord in a variety of musical settings must be considered among his most brilliant formal innovations that helped shape the subsequent course of music history. His sonatas ‘with obbligato keyboard’ and one other melody instrument - violin, flute, or viola da gamba - redefined
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