Bach continues to delight and inspire By Megan Browne Helm, KC METROPOLIS Wed, Mar 31, 2010 REVIEW: Bill McGlaughlin and the Bach Aria Soloists Inspired by Bach Saturday March 27, 2010 Village Presbyterian Church Prairie Village, KS All musical roads lead to Bach. Not one of the many J.C. Bach’s or the significant W.F or [...]
KC METROPOLIS – Preview: Bill’s Bach, March 23, 2010 By: Megan Browne Helm Bill McGlaughlin is sentimental about Kansas City. “The look of the town, the rolling hills, the Missouri River and the Flint Hills further out in Kansas, it’s a beautiful place with the nicest people.” As artistic director and conductor of the Kansas City [...]
Bach Aria Soloists was featured in the Winter, 2008 Uniquely Kansas City program on KCPT.
Listen to the July 16, 2009 KPR program featuring Beau Bledsoe and Elizabeth Suh Lane in a live performance at KPR studios!
Lively Collaboration Mixes Dance and Music… Baroque music has been described as expressing order, but always lively and tuneful. The musical period, roughly from 1600 to 1750, includes notable composers like Bach and Vivaldi. Many of the works from the era are dance music, or inspired by the court dances of the time. So, it was a natural collaboration for the Bach Aria Soloists and the Owen/Cox Dance Group.
Sometimes a combination of two art forms gives a performance greater beauty and impact.
That’s the case with the Bach Aria Soloists, who will collaborate with the Owen/Cox Dance Group in “Baroque in Motion,” a concert premiering 7:30 p.m. Saturday in UMKC’s White Recital Hall.
It may seem commonplace to bring dance and music together, but this time around the result is extraordinary and exciting…
The Bach Aria Soloists are one of the best-keep secrets in town, but shouldn’t be. This outstanding ensemble put together by violinist Elizabeth Suh Lane performs Baroque and other works in intimate settings with unsurpassed musicality. Many of their concerts are in private homes, but here is your chance to hear the group in a public venue.
“(Director/violinist) Elizabeth Suh Lane is a marvelous soloist, chamber musician and someone who exemplifies the most accomplished and creative aspects of our finest musicians today.” – Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director, San Francisco Symphony“The Bach Aria Soloists are individually some of the finest concert musicians in America….” KCSTAGE “(Botero’s) superior vocal abilities lifted the [...]
For nearly a decade, the Bach Aria Soloists have highlighted some of the arias by the prolific German composer and organist Johann Sebastian Bach (from left to right): Matthew Johnson, cellist; Jan Kraybill, organist; Rebecca Lloyd, soprano; Robert Brand, guest baritone; Elizabeth Suh Lane, founder, artistic director, violinist; Tina Cho Johnson, guest violinist (photo: Laura [...]
Elizabeth Suh Lane (Bach Aria Soloists’ artistic director and violinist) was featured on Comcast’s Newsmakers program. Mike Shanin (host of KCPT-TV’s Ruckus program and news anchor and host at KMBZ-AM) conducted the four and a half minute interview which aired during the last five minutes of each hour on CNN Headline News from September 15 through October 14. 2007. The program reached 100,000 Comcast subscribers in Kansas and Missouri.