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Review: Musical Tales featuring Ferdinand the Bull

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Read the original KC Metropolis review November 23, 2011, Cover Stories, Classical Bach, the Bard, and a bull By Nihan Yesil   Mon, Nov 21, 2011 Attuned to the upcoming holiday season, Bach Aria Soloists offered a program inspired by literature, featuring one of the best-known characters of children’s literature: Ferdinand the Bull. Bach Aria Soloists presented a night of [...]

KPR broadcast: Bach Aria Soloists: A Night of Tango

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KPR’s live Performance Studio is acoustically designed to enhance sound quality. Various acoustical elements were designed into the room to ensure a good sound such as adjustable curtains, floating floor, non parallel wall and ceilings, and insulation to isolate the studio from outside and interior noise. KPR hosts musical artists from around the world for [...]

KCmetropolis.org ranks Night of Tango top ten performance of the year!

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kcMetropolis.org (Kansas City’s on-line journal of the performing arts) Classical Editor Topher Levin attended almost all the concerts in late 2010–11 by big name pianists and vocalists. Who presented his favorite recitals of the season?  The Bach Aria Soloists’ Night of Tango!  It was a wonderful celebration of Astor Piazzolla’s music featuring guest artists, Hector del [...]

Bach & Jazz Inventions photos

Jeff Harshbarger, Rebecca Lloyd, Beau Bledsoe, Elizabeth Suh Lane, Bobby Watson

June, 2011 - Bach Aria Soloists “Bach and Jazz Inventions with Bobby Watson” was an unforgettable season finale. This collaboration with the legendary Bobby Watson and special guest Jeff Harshbarger, superb jazz doublebassist showcased the timelessness of Bach’s music and versatility of the Bach Aria Soloists (view concert announcement).

KC Studio Magazine Feature

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Elizabeth Suh Lane and Bobby Watson were featured on the cover of KC STUDIO  Magazine and a wonderful feature article inside! See on-line version here: http://en.calameo.com/read/00000925640c7fed7ca19?page=12      

Review of ‘Night of Tango’

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Kansas City Star, Sat, Feb. 26, 2011 07:41 AM By BILL BROWNLEE Special to The Star Laden with anguish and regret, the music of Astor Piazzolla is exquisitely sorrowful. Yet no one in the overflow audience of approximately 300 at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church had cause for misgivings about attending Friday’s concert dedicated to [...]

Buy Night of Tango Tickets Here!

Hector del Curto and bandoneon

Night of Tango 7:30pm Friday, February 25, 2011 at All Souls Universalist Church 7:30pm Saturday, February 26, 2011 at Lawrence Arts Center Purchase tickets ON-LINE or phone 888-695-0888 BAS brings legendary bandoneon master Hector del Curto and superb Tango pianist Gustavo Casenave to Kansas City to join versatile artists, Elizabeth Suh Lane and Beau Bledsoe [...]

Photos from the Lerner Hauskonzert

Douglas Niedt introduces his arrangement of Bach's Praeludium, Fugue, and Allegro in E flat major

The setting: The Bach Aria Soloists’ Annual Lerner Hauskonzert in Leslie Bowles Lerner’s magnificent old Mission Hills tudor. Dreamteam of sopranos Rebecca Lloyd and Sarah Tannehill along with BAS Founder-Artistic Director-violinist Elizabeth Suh Lane, Elisa Bickers, harpsichordist, and guest guitarist Douglas Niedt delivered a memorable feast of music by Bach, Monteverdi, Delibes, Handel, Mozart and [...]

2010-11 Season – Gustavo Casenave

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Gustavo Casenave, Pianist Born: November 10, 1971 Press Quotes one of the best pianists our country has… Diario El Pais (URUGUAY) brilliant, virtuoso… Diario La Nacion (ARGENTINA) Gustavo Casenave plays with distinct straightahead jazz feeling at times and at other times he melds into the elaborate voicings of the tango.. Jazz Times (USA) Casenave sounds [...]

2010-11 Season – Bobby Watson

Jazz saxophonist Bobby Watson

June 2011 Bach & Jazz Inventions with Bobby Watson Don’t miss this one night only, ingenious collaboration with legendary jazzer, Bobby Watson improvising with the Bach Aria Soloists on brilliant Bach Arias, Inventions, Sonatas and the soulful Brazilian music of Guinga!

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