Bach’s Birthday Bash Brought Beautiful music to the RI Philharmonic Music School

RIPHIL • March 28, 2019

Students at the Music School ushered in Johann Sebastian Bach’s
334th birthday with—what else?— making wonderful music!

The celebration was a tour de force with performances of some of the renowned German composer’s famous pieces. Check out the video of “Air on the G String” (August Wilhelmj’s arrangement of the second movement in Bach’s Orchestral Suite No.3 in D major).

Music School students celebrating Bach’s birthday are: on violin, Elena Hurtado, Ruta Nikitska and Simone Semerjian; viola Connie Hathaway and Abby Magoon; and piano Maddox Realejo and Irina Tchantceva.

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