An evening with the Olivera's & Bach . . .

Recently a group of students from the Sarasota Music Center gathered in Hector's Bach Room at his home to celebrate the gifted composer and organist - Johann Sebastian Bach. The Music Center's director, Denise came as Mrs. Bach. And a good time was had by all, as the images below will testify.

Enjoy!

Hector greeting Mrs. Bach at the door.	In Hector's Bach Room, with the Great Master looking down on the festivities.
The Rodgers 960, Hector and the Music Center students	The students, Mrs. Bach, gather with Hector in the Bach Room
Lieve (Mrs. Hector) with Denee	Hector going over the fine points of the Harpsichord with Heather
The Roland® Harpsichord being given a work out by Kyle

Bach, Johann Sebastian 

1685-1750, German composer and organist, one of the greatest composers of the Western world. Born into a gifted family, Bach was trained in music from childhood by his father, Johann Ambrosia, and later by his brother Johann Christoph. He held a variety of posts, serving as organist in Arnstadt (1703-7), Mühlhausen (1707-8), and Weimar (1708-17) before becoming (1717) musical director for Prince Leopold at Cöthen. After the death (1720) of his first wife, Maria Barbara Bach, he married (1721) Anna Magdalena Wülken. He had in all 20 children, several of whom became noted as musicians (see separate article Bach). In 1723, Bach became cantor and music director of St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, a distinguished post that he held until his death. In his instrumental and choral works, Bach perfected the art of Polyphony and brought the era of Baroque music to its culmination. During his lifetime he was better known as a virtuoso organist than as a composer, but since the 19th cent. his genius has been recognized, and his reputation has grown steadily. In his early years as organist, he composed a series of works for organ that culminated in the great preludes and Fugues written at Weimar. At Cöthen he focused on instrumental compositions, such as the Brandenburg Concertos, and keyboard works, such as Book I of the celebrated Well-Tempered Clavier. His superb religious compositions from the Leipzig period include the St. John Passion and the Mass in B Minor, and some 300 sacred Cantatas, of which nearly 200 are extant. His last notable pieces are the Musical Offering, composed (1747) for Frederick the Great, and the Art of the Fugue (1749).