Bach Festival Society shows us what it does best | Review (Orlando Sentinel)
ORLANDO SENTINEL ARTS WRITER
In two September concerts, the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park has shown us its strengths in multiple areas — education, community service and, of course, music.
Thursday night brought the welcome return of the Insights & Sounds series, in which music is informally combined with information about the composers. So an audience member can learn things such as Edward Elgar of “Pomp and Circumstance” fame was shy, William Harris was Queen Elizabeth II’s music teacher, and Morten Lauridsen was once a forest firefighter.
The tidbits from artistic director John Sinclair are interspersed among the music, and on Thursday Rollins College’s Knowles Chapel was ringing with the sound of brass and organ (with some percussion for good measure).