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Louisville
Bach Society
611 Indian Ridge Road
Louisville KY 40207
Phone: (502) 893-2497
Email address: bachcouple@aol.com
Website: www.louisvillebachsociety.org
"The
Louisville Bach Society has benefited from Fund for the
Arts with the support of financial grants, both general
and specific. The Fund has been especially helpful in supporting
partnerships between the Bach Society and other Fund organizations,
including the Louisville Orchestra, Louisville Youth Choir
and West Louisville Boys Choir.
By recognizing and supporting a relatively small group such
as the Louisville Bach Society, the Fund for the Arts has
underlined one of the basic strengths of this community:
diversity in the arts.
A strong orchestra, ballet, opera and theater presence is
certainly necessary for any community striving to be prominent
in the arts. However, for decades, Louisville has extended
its arts image to include Shakespeare, musical theater,
and the choral/orchestral repertoire presented by the Bach
Society.
It has also included groups which encourage the participation
of young people - instrumentally, vocally, and in theater
arts. The inclusion of this variety of arts entities under
one umbrella of funding and support has proved to be one
of the Fund's most valuable contributions."
The Louisville Bach Society was founded in 1964 by Melvin
and Margaret Dickinson. Since then, the Bach Society has
been performing masterpieces of choral music, not only works
by Johann Sebastian Bach, but also Brahms, Haydn, Mozart,
Rheinberger, and several contemporary composers.
Performances throughout Kentucky and neighboring states
have been a custom of the Bach Society since its beginning,
and have been enthusiastically received in smaller communities
from Pikeville to Indianapolis. Children’s concerts
are also popular and taped concerts have appeared on national
television. Singers in the Bach Society come from many areas
and occupations: students, doctors, attorneys, teachers,
social workers, and housewives. Members of the Louisville
Orchestra supply accompaniment for the concerts. The Bach
Society recently received an invitation from the International
Bach Society to perform in Leipzig, Germany.
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