The Carmel Bach Festival is a living tradition, whose continuing goal is the performance of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The festival is dedicated to sharing the influences, transformations and related historical, cultural and spiritual aspects of Bach's music and legacy. The Bach Festival will continue to offer a wider public a rich variety of opportunities to encounter, discover and experience the remarkably universal appeal of the great master's work.
In no other time has the civilizing influence of J.S. Bach's music been more profoundly felt. However, the Carmel Bach Festival recognizes its responsibility to provide opportunities for the joy of discovery of many composers who directly or indirectly were influenced by Bach. Performances of these composers' music at the Carmel Bach Festival reaffirms the fact that the music of Bach can be even better understood and appreciated when offered among the music of the other composers under his influence.
The Carmel Bach Festival seeks to provide programs that can introduce and further inform audiences, youth and potential listeners less able to have direct access to live performances of the music of Bach and his heirs. The Carmel Bach Festival and the organization which has been constituted to provide for the continuation of the festival is committed to the artistic, spiritual and cultural ideals inherent in the music of Bach. Its objective is that of insuring a stable, healthy and secure environment for the continued exploration and appreciation of the extraordinary message of musical works of this singular musical master.
Not Brook but Ocean should be his name.
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
("Bach" is the German word for "brook")
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
("Bach" is the German word for "brook")