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Anthony Newman, Organ
Sun, Sep 19
|Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
"Newman's performance of Bach's organ works is a revelation. Newman never conquers Bach, but interprets him in the most tasteful and magnificent way possible." - NEW YORK TIMES
Time & Location
Sep 19, 2021, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 50 N Prospect St, Akron, OH 44304, USA
Guests
About the Event
Described by Wynton Marsalis as "The High Priest of Bach", and by Time Magazine as "The High Priest of the Harpsichord," Newman continues his 53-year career as America's leading organist, harpsichordist and Bach specialist. His prodigious recording output includes more than 200 CDs on such labels as Columbia, CBS, SONY, Deutsche Grammaphon, and Vox Masterworks. In 1989, Stereo Review voted his original instrument recording of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto as "Record of the Year." His collaboration with Wynton Marsalis on Sony's "In Gabriel's Garden" was the bestselling classical CD in 1997.
As keyboardist, he performed more than sixty times at Lincoln Center in New York, and collaborated with many of the greats of music: Kathleen Battle, Itzhak Perlman, Eugenia Zukerman, John Nelson, Jean-Pierre Rampal, James Levine, Lorin Mazel, Mstislav Rostropovich, Seji Osawa, and Leonard Bernstein.
As conductor, he worked with the greats of chamber music orchestras: St. Paul Chamber, LA…